A event on Friday 21st November. The event starts at 19:00.
The Bristol launch of GHOST DRIVER, the debut novel by Nell Osborne. Nell Osborne will be joined by Alice Butler for a Q&A.
Part horror story, part tragicomic nightmare, GHOST DRIVER is a slim shudder of a novel about a woman who has taken every wrong turn available to her.
Praise for Ghost Driver:
‘Ghost Driver devises a new genre of administrative horror: by turns addictively morbid, comic and discomfortingly familiar. Malory’s inner and outer worlds, like the novel’s prose, feel agonisingly poised on a knife edge – gothic in the cruellest, off-kilter sense. I am obsessed’ (Daisy LaFarge)
‘Ghost Driver is brilliant and hilarious and dark and true’ (Sarah Bernstein)
About the speakers:
Nell Osborne is a poet, novelist and researcher of experimental writing. In 2024, she published a poetry pamphlet, Thank You For Everything, with Monitor Books and co-edited, Gestures: a body of work, a cross-disciplinary anthology on gesture and feminist practice, published with MUP. GHOST DRIVER is her first novel.
Alice Butler is a writer and interdisciplinary scholar based in the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art who specialises in the intersections of recent and contemporary feminist and queer art, writing, and theoretical practices. Her creative and critical (often cross-genre/cross-historical) work activates reparative forms of correspondence to get closer to embodied states, encounters, and scenes of writing, desire, sickness, and love. She is the author of Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces, which will be published by Duke University Press in spring 2026. She is co-editor of Gestures: A body of work (Manchester University Press, 2025). She is currently at work on a new book that explores the lives and afterlives of stockings and pantyhose in 1970s–80s feminist art practices.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Part horror story, part tragicomic nightmare, GHOST DRIVER is a slim shudder of a novel about a woman who has taken every wrong turn available to her.
Praise for Ghost Driver:
‘Ghost Driver devises a new genre of administrative horror: by turns addictively morbid, comic and discomfortingly familiar. Malory’s inner and outer worlds, like the novel’s prose, feel agonisingly poised on a knife edge – gothic in the cruellest, off-kilter sense. I am obsessed’ (Daisy LaFarge)
‘Ghost Driver is brilliant and hilarious and dark and true’ (Sarah Bernstein)
About the speakers:
Nell Osborne is a poet, novelist and researcher of experimental writing. In 2024, she published a poetry pamphlet, Thank You For Everything, with Monitor Books and co-edited, Gestures: a body of work, a cross-disciplinary anthology on gesture and feminist practice, published with MUP. GHOST DRIVER is her first novel.
Alice Butler is a writer and interdisciplinary scholar based in the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art who specialises in the intersections of recent and contemporary feminist and queer art, writing, and theoretical practices. Her creative and critical (often cross-genre/cross-historical) work activates reparative forms of correspondence to get closer to embodied states, encounters, and scenes of writing, desire, sickness, and love. She is the author of Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces, which will be published by Duke University Press in spring 2026. She is co-editor of Gestures: A body of work (Manchester University Press, 2025). She is currently at work on a new book that explores the lives and afterlives of stockings and pantyhose in 1970s–80s feminist art practices.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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