Local Fires X the Bygones Book Tour Nottingham

Book Tour: Jim Gibson and Joshua Jones Reading from "The Bygones" and "Local Fires"

📅 Date: December 15th, 2023 🕖 Time: 7:00 PM 📍 Venue: The Carousel, Nottingham

Step into the stangely familiar worlds of Jim Gibson and Joshua Jones as they read from their acclaimed short story collections, The Bygones and Local Fires.

The Bygones offers a glimpse into a specific part of the world at a specific time in history. These small stories range from the very real to the very bizarre, taking you on a journey that explores the hidden layers of life and fiction.

Local Fires sees debut writer Joshua Jones turning his acute focus to his birthplace of Llanelli, South Wales. Explore themes of identity, gender, sexuality, toxic masculinity, and neurodivergence in a collection versatile in its observations, as the misadventures of the town's inhabitants threaten to spill over into an incendiary finale, witness the emergence of a singular new Welsh literary voice.

Special Guests:

• Poet Bobby Parker - matyr to the page, writing as if nothing mattered more.
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• Ichabod Wolf - performs songs about myth, morality and unemployment in a distict baratone voice.
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• Live music by the band Stuart Pearce - gas band of substance immemorial in an age of temporal content.