Reading & Book Signing at Borders, Leeds
Thursday, June 25, 2009 – Start time 6pm
Borders
94-96 Briggate
Leeds
LS1 6NP
Reading at this event will be:
- Aoife Mannix, author of Heritage of Secrets, a brilliant debut novel set in 1970s Ireland due in paperback in July. See http://tiny.cc/fkBY1 for more details.
- Charlotte Ansell, Rotherham-resident and acclaimed author of the poetry collections, you were for the poem and After Rain
- Inua Ellams, author of the UK’s fastest-selling poetry pamphlet 13 Fairy Negro Tales
- and Nii Ayikwei Parkes, flipped eye editor and author of eyes of a boy, lips of a man, reading from his recent novel, Tail of the Blue Bird.
About aoife
have a listen at http://www.myspace.com/aoifemannixandjaniearmour
Aoife Mannix is an Irish writer and poet based in London. Her first novel Heritage of Secrets was published by Lubin & Kleyner in 2008. She is the author of four collections of poetry; The Trick of Foreign Words (2002), The Elephant in the Corner (2005), Growing Up An Alien (2007) and the recent Turn The Clocks Upside Down – all with Tall Lighthouse. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, London Live, Resonance FM, and the BBC World Service. Her short stories are included in the anthologies Tell Tales Volume 3 (2006), Small Voices, Big Confessions (2006) and Westside Stories (2003).
