A event on Wednesday 10th July. The event starts at 18:30.
Join us at Storysmith Books for an evening with Rebecca Watson and Marianne Brooker.
Rebecca Watson‘s debut novel little scratch made an absolutely indelible mark when we first read it back in 2021, and so we’re delighted that we’re able to bring the author to Bristol for the release of the follow-up, I Will Crash!
Insatiably inventive on the page and punishingly effective on the ol’ emotional devastation front, Watson’s writing is visually miraculous, spreading itself into meticulous yet ungovernable columns across the page to reflect fragmenting states of mind. We are so excited to poke into that process and learn more about this exceptional new novel.
We’re also delighted to say that award-winning author Marianne Brooker will be chairing the event for us on the night – you will know Marianne from her searing and widely acclaimed non-fiction debut Intervals, and we’re thrilled to see where the conversation goes.
Tickets include a glass of wine. Pre-order your copy of I Will Crash (rrp £14.99) for a special discounted price with your ticket, then collect on the night!
Time & Place:
Wednesday 10th July 2024, 6:30pm
Storysmith, 236 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JD
About Rebecca Watson
Rebecca Watson is part-time Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and one of the Observer’s ten best debut novelists of 2021 for her novel little scratch. She has been published in the TLS, Granta and the Guardian. In 2018, she was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize, and in 2021, she was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize.
About I Will Crash
It was a peace offering, I knew that
you don’t appear on someone’s doorstep uninvited, saying Alright unless you want to make amends
It’s been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought.
Six years since she gave up on the idea of having a brother. She’s spent that time carefully not thinking about him. Not remembering their childhood.
Not mentioning those stories, even to the people she loves. Now the distance she had so carefully put between them has collapsed. Can she find a way to make peace – to forgive, to be forgiven – when the past she’s worked so hard to contain threatens to spill over into the present? From the acclaimed author of little scratch, this is a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive.
About Marianne Brooker
Marianne Brooker is based in Bristol, where she works for a charity campaigning on climate and social justice. She has a PhD from Birkbeck and a background in arts research and teaching. Intervals, her first book, won the 2022 Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize and was longlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Rebecca Watson‘s debut novel little scratch made an absolutely indelible mark when we first read it back in 2021, and so we’re delighted that we’re able to bring the author to Bristol for the release of the follow-up, I Will Crash!
Insatiably inventive on the page and punishingly effective on the ol’ emotional devastation front, Watson’s writing is visually miraculous, spreading itself into meticulous yet ungovernable columns across the page to reflect fragmenting states of mind. We are so excited to poke into that process and learn more about this exceptional new novel.
We’re also delighted to say that award-winning author Marianne Brooker will be chairing the event for us on the night – you will know Marianne from her searing and widely acclaimed non-fiction debut Intervals, and we’re thrilled to see where the conversation goes.
Tickets include a glass of wine. Pre-order your copy of I Will Crash (rrp £14.99) for a special discounted price with your ticket, then collect on the night!
Time & Place:
Wednesday 10th July 2024, 6:30pm
Storysmith, 236 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JD
About Rebecca Watson
Rebecca Watson is part-time Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and one of the Observer’s ten best debut novelists of 2021 for her novel little scratch. She has been published in the TLS, Granta and the Guardian. In 2018, she was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize, and in 2021, she was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize.
About I Will Crash
It was a peace offering, I knew that
you don’t appear on someone’s doorstep uninvited, saying Alright unless you want to make amends
It’s been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought.
Six years since she gave up on the idea of having a brother. She’s spent that time carefully not thinking about him. Not remembering their childhood.
Not mentioning those stories, even to the people she loves. Now the distance she had so carefully put between them has collapsed. Can she find a way to make peace – to forgive, to be forgiven – when the past she’s worked so hard to contain threatens to spill over into the present? From the acclaimed author of little scratch, this is a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive.
About Marianne Brooker
Marianne Brooker is based in Bristol, where she works for a charity campaigning on climate and social justice. She has a PhD from Birkbeck and a background in arts research and teaching. Intervals, her first book, won the 2022 Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize and was longlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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