Multi-faceted Paul Kingsnorth to discuss fiction and climate

Loughrea-based author Paul Kingsnorth will give a reading in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway City this Friday night, September 9, at 6.30pm.

Paul’s 2014 novel, The Wake, explores the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings and is written in a devised language of the era (1066) that The Guardian described as “time travel between hard covers and the most glorious reading experience I’ve had for years”.

The crowdfunded novel, which was longlisted for      the 2014 Man Booker Prize, and won the Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award re-   invented an ancient language by removing Latin and Norman-French from Old English.

It was followed this year by Beast, which was published by Faber & Faber.

Paul will be in conversation in Charlie Byrne’s with  journalist and activist Michael McCaughan and the two will also discuss The Dark Mountain Project, a global network of ecologically-minded artists, writers and thinkers, that Paul co-founded to address the ecocide and destruction of the environment being caused by industrialised humanity.

All are welcome to what should be a fascinating evening of literature and debate in Charlie Byrne’s this Friday, September 9, starting at 6.30pm.