Monday 1 June, 7pm
Waterstones
203-206 Piccadilly
London W1J 9HD
Phone: 020 7851 2400
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus, Green Park
Tickets free but please reserve your place by emailing Piccadilly@waterstones.com
Beautifully written, funny, mischievous and touching
Nicholas Royle
The Lost Art of Sinking is the story of Esther, who lives in the Pennines with her father. Esther is obsessed with experimenting with different ways to pass out: from snorting Daz powder at school to autoasphyxiation in a serviced apartment in London. But what happens when you take something too far? And what has Esther’s mother, a beautiful dancer wasting away in her bedroom, to do with it all? The Lost Art of Sinking is a dark comedy about losing yourself. Sensual, funny and exquisitely written, this bold novella introduces a fresh literary voice in Naomi Booth.
Intimate and haunting
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
In his atmospheric second collection, Ryan Van Winkle charts loves won and loves lost. A lyric voice that is both familiar and strangely different leads us through the shifting forests of memory and towards a grim acknowledgement of the need to get up, to be careful, to move. The Good Dark includes poems from Van Winkle’s acclaimed one-on-one poetry performance Red, Like Our Room Used to Feel (Edinburgh Fringe 2012) and cements his reputation as one of the most evocative poets writing today.