A event on Tuesday 4th March. The event starts at 19:00.
Gloucester Road Books host brilliant writer, Han Smith, who will be discussing her extraordinary debut novel, Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking.
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, the novel recounts a young woman coming of age in a town reckoning with its brutal past in what is a dazzling, atmospheric and unforgettable debut. This event is a wonderful opportunity to hear from one of the most exciting writers to have emerged in recent years.
Copies of the novel will be on sale at the event.
Some rave reviews for the novel:
‘Tender and merciless . . . a hallucinatory window into what it means to excavate the past in a world committed to its erasure’ Abigail Shinn, Goldsmiths Prize Judge
‘Kaleidoscopic and beguiling . . . A singular and thrilling debut that shows what happens when objective truth and meaning are drowned in the shifting river of history and politics’ Andrew McMillan
‘Intimate, intricate, and ultimately irresistible. Smith's unforgettable style builds a political-personal narrative that resounds to the drumbeat of resistance and rebellion’ Ruby Cowling
‘Like being in a hall of mirrors where you think you've caught Smith's eye but it's just a reflection. When something slips into view between the glass, you get that uncanny feeling you're staring back at yourself. A mysterious quest of excavation.’ Jen Calleja
‘A novel full of hopeful glitter – and one I know I will return to’ A K Blakemore, Guardian
‘Strange, intriguing, exhilarating’ Camilla Grudova
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Han Smith grew up in Japan, Russia, the UK and other places. A queer writer, translator and adult literacy teacher, Han is the recipient of a 2019/2020 London Writers Award, and has been shortlisted/longlisted for the Mslexia Novella Award, the Bridport Prize, the Desperate Literature short story prize, and the Brick Lane short story prize. She has also been commissioned and published by Lunate Journal, Five Dials, Cipher Press, Hotel, Versopolis, LossLit, Litro, The Interpreter’s House and the European Poetry Festival. Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, the novel recounts a young woman coming of age in a town reckoning with its brutal past in what is a dazzling, atmospheric and unforgettable debut. This event is a wonderful opportunity to hear from one of the most exciting writers to have emerged in recent years.
Copies of the novel will be on sale at the event.
Some rave reviews for the novel:
‘Tender and merciless . . . a hallucinatory window into what it means to excavate the past in a world committed to its erasure’ Abigail Shinn, Goldsmiths Prize Judge
‘Kaleidoscopic and beguiling . . . A singular and thrilling debut that shows what happens when objective truth and meaning are drowned in the shifting river of history and politics’ Andrew McMillan
‘Intimate, intricate, and ultimately irresistible. Smith's unforgettable style builds a political-personal narrative that resounds to the drumbeat of resistance and rebellion’ Ruby Cowling
‘Like being in a hall of mirrors where you think you've caught Smith's eye but it's just a reflection. When something slips into view between the glass, you get that uncanny feeling you're staring back at yourself. A mysterious quest of excavation.’ Jen Calleja
‘A novel full of hopeful glitter – and one I know I will return to’ A K Blakemore, Guardian
‘Strange, intriguing, exhilarating’ Camilla Grudova
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Han Smith grew up in Japan, Russia, the UK and other places. A queer writer, translator and adult literacy teacher, Han is the recipient of a 2019/2020 London Writers Award, and has been shortlisted/longlisted for the Mslexia Novella Award, the Bridport Prize, the Desperate Literature short story prize, and the Brick Lane short story prize. She has also been commissioned and published by Lunate Journal, Five Dials, Cipher Press, Hotel, Versopolis, LossLit, Litro, The Interpreter’s House and the European Poetry Festival. Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio