Cal Flyn & Karl Geary - Two debut authors, two mesmerising stories – a fascinating evening not to be missed.
Mon 27 Nov 7pm Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
Cal Flyn is an award winning freelance writer and
reporter from the Highlands of Scotland. Her work has featured in many leading
publications and she is a previous winner of the Independent on Sunday/Bradt
Prize for travel writing. Cal was very proud when she discovered that her
ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However,
when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride. McMillan had not only cut
tracks through the bush, but played a dark role in Australia's bloody history. Driven
to piece together his story and to confront her history, Cal decided to follow
Angus's route from Skye to rural Australia. Delving into a dark period in
Australian history with a novel’s immediate style, this book asks how whole
societies can come to be overlooked, forgotten and shamed.
Thicker Than Water
combines memoir, history, travelogue and lyrical nature writing.
Karl Geary is a novelist, actor and scriptwriter. He was born in Dublin and moved to America at sixteen. Unfolding in the sea-bright, rain-soaked Dublin of early spring, his first novel Montpelier Parade is a beautiful, cinematic novel about desire, longing, grief, hope and the things that remain unspoken. It is about how deeply we can connect with one another, and the choices we must also make alone. The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open and she comes down the path towards him. Vera.
Chance meetings become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. Casting off his lonely life of dreams and quiet violence for this new, intoxicating encounter, he longs to know Vera, even to save her. But what is it that Vera isn’t telling him?
'Luminous and
moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to
the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me.' Sunjeev Sahota,
author of The Year of the Runaways
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