Michael Fowler is coming to Calderdale Library on Wednesday, details below:
Winter events from Calderdale
Libraries
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WEDNESDAY
16th December 2015 2pm
KING CROSS LIBRARY
Michael Fowler
In 2006 Michael retired from the police following 32
years’ service, with behind him he had a folder full of
rich crime material to draw upon.
With no more distractions he began the journey of writing that crime
novel he had always promised himself. The first draft was completed
within 18 months. Then he spent another year tightening the
prose and in 2010 he began submitting the manuscript.
After only a few rejections he was offered a contract by Caffeine Nights
Publishing Limited and in 2012 Heart of the Demon was
released, together with the follow-up novel, Cold Death.
Michael’s other bestselling books include, Coming, Ready or Not
(D.S. Hunter Kerr Book 4), and Secrets of the Dead
(D.S. Hunter Kerr Book 3).
Michael will discuss and read from his work - and sign
sale copies at the event.
To book for this free event, click here
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BEASTINGS
by Benjamin Myers has won the £10,000 Portico Literature Prize 2015.
The winner
was announced on 26th November
at a gala dinner hosted by Val McDermid at the Mercure Hotel in
Manchester. Previous winners
of the Portico Literature Prize include Anthony Burgess, Val
McDermid and Sarah Hall
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham,
UK, in 1976. Beastings (2014) was the
recipient of the Northern Writers’ Award and short listed
for a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award 2015.
It
featured on several end of year lists, and was chosen by
Robert Macfarlane in The Big Issue
as one of his books of 2014, who wrote: “Beastings
is a brilliant, brutal novel, told sparsely but with huge strength.
It put me in mind of the work of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy in
its attention to landscape, and its muscular tone.”
Pig Iron
(2012) was the winner of the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize 2013.
His novel Richard
(2010 ) was chosen as a Sunday Times book of the year.
Myers’ short story ‘The Folk Song Singer’ was awarded the
Tom-Gallon Prize in 2014 by the Society Of Authors.
His
published work includes novels, poetry collections and short
stories. His most recent poetry collection, Heathcliff Adrift, exhibited
at Durham Cathedral and at The Bronte Parsonage alongside
landscape photographs.
Benjamin
Myers’ work is entirely set in the North of England, and explores
marginal characters, rural life, landscapes and the violence of the
natural world. His novels form an on-going wider series of works,
each set in a different Northern county - Beastings
takes places against the backdrop of Cumbria’s distant past; Pig Iron
considered contemporary post-industrial Durham.
Ben
currently lives in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
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Love creative writing ?
Todmorden Writers Group meets fortnightly on a Wednesday evening
upstairs at The Polished Knob.
Contact Andy
Fraser for more details.
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