In a tour brokered by The Reading Agency and publishers Faber, acclaimed new author Peter Murphy will be meeting selected reading groups audiences in libraries across England during April 2013, and introducing them to his second novel Shall We Gather At The River.
National charity The Reading Agency’s Reading
Partners consortium, which creates successful and exciting events and
activities for readers, used its extensive contacts within the UK’s public
library network to invite libraries to ‘bid‘ for Peter Murphy to come and answer questions from local book groups and read to them
from his latest novel. The resulting tour by Peter begins at London’s Pimlico
Library on 9 April, then taking in Cambridge, Nottingham and Shrewsbury.
Shall We Gather At The River is the haunting story of a small town and the great flood that
afflicts it. Over a period of fourteen days in 1984, nine souls
enter the river in a spate of rash suicides …
Peter Murphy’s 2009
novel John the
Revelator was one of
the most acclaimed Irish debuts of recent years and was shortlisted for both
the Costa First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Prize for Fiction. Peter is a
freelance journalist and reporter for RTE’s arts review show The Works. He is also a founder member of the spoken word/music
ensemble The Revelator Orchestra.
“We’re absolutely delighted to be
working with The Reading Agency on this tour for Peter Murphy. It’s so
important for writers to be able to connect with readers, and libraries are a
fundamental part of this relationship,” says Rebecca Pearson, publicity manager
at Faber and Faber.
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