Wednesday April 30th -
7.30pm
The Big Green
Bookswap, with Mike Carey and Joel Meadows
A glorious evening
of entertainment and literary chat at the Great Northern Railway Tavern on
Hornsey High Street (N8 7QB).
This is a different kind of book event, so expect the
unexpected. Here are the rules.
1. Bring along with you a book which you’re prepared to
swap for another.
2. Have a drink.
3. Prepare to be entertained.
Those are the rules.
This month’s special guests.
Mike Carey.
Mike Carey got into writing through comic books, where
his horror/fantasy series Lucifer garnered numerous international awards and
was nominated for five Eisners. From there he moved into novels and
screenplays, while still maintaining a presence in the comics world.
His brilliant Felix Castor books are a consistently
bestselling series in the shop.
Imagine the Raymond Chandler novels if L.A. was London
and Marlowe were an exorcist. Castor is a flawed but mostly likeable man who’s
trying to do the right thing in a world that often makes the right thing more
or less impossible. He makes his living as an exorcist, but from as early as
the first book he starts to have doubts about what he’s doing and to shift his
sympathies from the living to the dead. It’s not easy being an exorcist with
those sort of scruples.
All of this is against the backdrop of a world where the
dead have started to rise in serious numbers. There are ghosts, zombies, even
were-creatures, so there’s a big demand for exorcists, and there‘s money to be
made if you know what you’re doing....
His new novel is The Girl With All the Gifts.
Joel Meadows.
In 1992, Joel and his neighbour Simon Teff launched the
first issue of TRIPWIRE. It went on to become the UK’s best-loved comics and
genre magazine.
Featuring interviews and articles by such luminaries as
Bryan Moore, Terry Gilliam, Matt Groening and Will Eisner, the magazine has
garnished heaps of praise from everyone in the business.
“Still the coolest magazine on the planet..” – IAN
RANKIN
“Amazing, gratifying. A pleasure to look at, a pleasure
to read..” – MICHAEL MOORCOCK
“The touchstone of comic book culture in the UK” –
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
Mike and Joel will be joining to discuss…well anything
you want them to. That's the nature of the Big Green Bookswap.
Tickets, priced at just £3, are now available. HERE.
We hope you can make it
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