EVENT 13/05: Ingrid Persaud introduces The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh (Henleaze)
We're delighted to be welcoming Ingrid Persaud, author of the Costa First Novel Award-winning Love After Love, to Henleaze to discuss her epic new story of four lives, connected and controlled by one man: The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh. Ingrid will be in conversation with award-winning novelist, screenwriter, publisher and friend of the shop, Nikesh Shukla.
Date:
Monday 13th May 2024
Venue:
Max Minerva's, 47 Henleaze Road, BS9 4JU
Time:
Doors at 19:00. Discussion at 19:30. Finish at 20:45.
Tickets:
£5.50 ticket only; £18.99 ticket with hardback book. £1 Pay What You Can
(Please only choose the PWYC tickets if you need to, they are limited and intended for those who really need them.)
50p from each ticket goes to Caring In Bristol
You don't need to bring your ticket with you, we will have a list of names on the door. Books will be available to buy on the night, priced £18.99.
ABOUT THE BOOK
From the winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2020 and the Indie Book Award for Fiction 2021
A voice that has a vibrancy of its own
RACHEL JOYCE
From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk. This is the tale of four women. Popo: brilliant, vulnerable and stuck.
She's determined to free herself from the traps of her past. Mana Lala: a devoted mother - her only connection to her man is their little boy, and she will do anything to keep them close. For Doris, well he's glorious and once she's licked him into shape, her husband presents an opportunity to climb the social ladder.
She's heard the awful stories, but she's sure they won't be hers. Rosie just wants to mind her business, her lover, Etty, and her store. Four lives, connected and controlled by one man: the notorious, charismatic gangster Boysie Singh.
Pull up a chair and let these women tell of the man they believed could love, help or free them, and how some of them survived to tell a tale at all.
ABOUT INGRID PERSAUD
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Ingrid Persaud is a late bloomer to the world of literature. She began her adult life as a lawyer, having studied law at the London School of Economics. She’d always yearned for an artistic life, an ambition which took her to study fine art at Goldsmith College and Central St.Martins. Up until her 30s, Ingrid Persaud taught law at Kings College, London, and also worked as a visual artist, before undergoing the transformation into a writer.
Apart from her 2021 Costa First Novel award, her prizes and awards include the Indie Book Award for Fiction 2021, the National Short Story Award, 2018 and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017, with The Sweet Sop, a story exploring harrowing themes of fractured families, death and terminal illness, through the medium of chocolate.
ABOUT NIKESH SHUKLA
Nikesh Shukla is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of one children's book, The Council Of Good Friends, and three YA novels, Run, Riot (shortlisted for a National Book Award), The Boxer (longlisted for the Carnegie Medal) and Stand Up. He is also the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny. Nikesh’s memoir, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race, Family And Home was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.
Nikesh is the co-founder of The Good Literary Agency. He was one of Time Magazine’s cultural leaders, Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Global Thinkers and The Bookseller's 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. Nikesh is the editor of the bestselling essay collection, The Good Immigrant, which won the reader's choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards. He co-edited The Good Immigrant USA with Chimene Suleyman. He also teaches through Faber Academy.