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HERITAGE OF SECRETS:

The paperback is now out and for the next few weeks  is available direct from the publisher at the discounted price of only four pounds. Just click here –

http://www.flippedeye.net/store/product_info.php?products_id=65

Only a week left for voting on the People’s Book Prize.  I’m currently in second place so just need a few votes to win – please help!  Click here –

http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/book.php?id=90

All you have to do is register with your email then they send you a password and you can vote.  Thanks a million J

LONDON LIMING: where spoken word meets carnival

presenting poetry, fiction, song and a new poetry anthology

6 September 2009 at 5.15pm

KINGS PLACE, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

Tickets £4.50                        Bookings via www.kingsplace.co.uk

LONDON LIMING mixes poetry, music and audience participation to bring a carnival flavour to London.

Featuring performances by MELLOW BAKU, CHARLIE DARK, JOHN HEGLEY, MICHAEL HOROVITZ and AOIFE MANNIX, plus a taster of a new POETRY Anthology (Poetry Olympics Enlightenment) of poets, fiction writers and wordsmiths, edited by Michael Horovitz, John Hegley, Melanie Abrahams and Adam Horovitz. Hosted by Melanie Abrahams.

LIT UP:  Aoife Mannix and Janie Armour present Different Words For Snow

Creating Live Literature Showcase & Conference

Thursday September 24th 2009 – The Albany, Deptford, London

Click here for more info http://www.litup.org/prog2009b.htm

Here’s what I’m up to over the summer.  Thanks a million to those of you who’ve voted for my novel Heritage of Secrets for the People’s Book Award.  I’m all excited cos I’m currently at number two – just need a few more votes to be in the lead!  Click here to vote http://tr.im/qqEU and please encourage others to vote too.  Your support is hugely appreciated.

The paperback of ‘Heritage of Secrets’ is now available on Amazon http://tr.im/rmlc.  More info on the book below.

BOOK CLUB BOUTIQUE FLIPPED EYE PARTY
Monday, July 27th, 7pm – 11:30pm FREE ENTRY
Dick’s Bar ‘The Green Fingernail’, 23 Romilly Street, Soho
featuring Aoife Mannix, Niall O’Sullivan, Niki Aguirre and Nii Ayikwei Parkes

LATITUDE  JULY 16TH -19TH
I’m performing at Latitude http://tr.im/rm4Z

STANDON CALLING JULY 31ST – AUGUST 2ND
I’m performing at Standing Calling with the Book Club Boutique http://tr.im/rmbO

BIG CHILL AUGUST 6TH – 9TH
I’m performing at the Big Chill http://tr.im/rm8K

HERITAGE OF SECRETS has echoes of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd in more than just the name of the American sailor, Troy and spans the days of ‘The Troubles’ to the present, a time when marijuana has begun to filter into the bathrooms of convent schools in Ireland and issues of sexuality have come to the fore.

Order it on Amazon http://tr.im/rmlc or direct from the publisher http://tr.im/qLCh.

“Heritage of Secrets is unputdownable; the writing is beautiful, and the epic scale of the story is compelling. This is a novel that embraces love, loss and destiny with compassion and clarity. Aoife Mannix is a writer to watch.” Nick Drake, author of Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead and winner of the Forward prize for best first collection, The Man in the White Suit

‘Aoife Mannix has a poet’s way with words, and a natural gift for storytelling. ‘Heritage of Secrets’ is a hugely satisfying read’. Paul Burston, author of ‘The Gay Divorcee’

‘Aoife Mannix’s book is a real page-turner, and incredibly difficult to put down.  She has painted her characters with consumate skill, drawing on finely honed observational skills, with the true story teller’s ease. I found myself sympathising with the main characters even when they were doing appalling things with and to each other. A really great read.’  Agnes Meadows, author of This One Is For You

SAT JULY 4TH – 8PM
BOOK CLUB BOUTIQUE ‘SPACE INVADERS’
THE STANDON CALLING PREVIEW SHOW @ CAFE OTO, DALSTON (18 – 22 Ashwin street)

We can now reveal the tasty tease line-up for Saturdays showcase of the creative, theatrical and literary talent appearing at the award winning Standon Calling Festival…

NICHOLAS HOGG:
Award winning author, short story performed with special guests

KAREN HAYLEY:
Surrealist sex kitten

AOIFE MANNIX:
Spellbinding Irish poet

MARQUIS ANDREAS GRANT:
Jamaican Swedish poetic leather clad heart throb

LIVE MUSIC:

MELANIA JACK:
The Australian Vegan Lesbian Army

CLAIRE NICOLSON:
“Dusty Sprinfield weaned on acid folk rock that makes grown men weep, little children laugh and fury animals pro create!” Ed Harcourt

THE BOOK CLUB BOUTIQUE BAND with the legendary COBALT STARGAZER and the New York Chic of MAX DORAY on bass.

DJ DAN CARRIER

Very exciting news my novel ‘Heritage of Secrets’ has been nominated for the People’s Book Prize. Now I just need you to vote for it so I can win! Click here http://tr.im/qqEU or go to http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/ and register and vote for my book in the fiction section. Should take you less than sixty seconds and I will love you forever and ever

The paperback’s just been released so you can buy it on Amazon http://tr.im/nL5Y at a special discount for the next few weeks. We’re having a party to celebrate at the Book Club Boutique on July 27th – hope you can make it ?

FICTIONS at the Book Club Boutique
Monday, July 27th, 7pm – 11:30pm FREE ENTRY
Dick’s Bar ‘The Green Fingernail’, 23 Romilly Street, Soho
featuring Aoife Mannix, Niall O’Sullivan, Niki Aguirre and Nii Ayikwei Parkes

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.