Pigeon English

A Bloomsbury Salon event with Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Stephen Kelman

Man Booker Prize shortlisted Stephen Kelman and new author Nick Lake talk at this Bloomsbury event

11 January 2012

The Bloomsbury Institute presents

Gang Culture in Fiction: A Bloomsbury Salon event with Stephen Kelman & Nick Lake

Tuesday 31st January
6pm for 6.30pm
At 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP
Tickets £8/ Students £4
www.bloomsburyinstitute.com

Delve inside the world of teenage gang culture from Haiti to London with Man Booker Prize shortlisted author Stephen Kelman and acclaimed new author Nick Lake.

Pigeon English is the tale of Harri, a young Ghanaian who starts a murder investigation of his own when a boy is knifed to death on his high street. In Darkness, set during the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, is the story of a boy called Shorty who is searching for the twin sister he lost seven years ago.

Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian's Children's Books Editor, will be interviewing the authors and chairing the discussion about writing authentic teenage voices in fiction.
Tickets can be booked at www.bloomsburyinstitute.com or on the door.

Praise for Stephen Kelman
"A powerful story...It paints a vivid portrait with honesty, sympathy and wit, of a much neglected milieu, and it addresses urgent social questions. It is horrifying, tender and funny...Pigeon English will be read by millions."
Daily Telegraph

Praise for Nick Lake
"Nick Lake weaves Haiti's dark past with its painful present into a story that is gripping, moving and uplifting. This novel dances with extraordinary confidence from one era to another, mixing the contemporary with the historical to create a rich and fascinating dialogue across the centuries. In Darkness is a stunningly original and hard-hitting debut."
William Sutcliffe

The Man Booker Prize Fiction at its finest