BOOKBLAST Tour 2018 - Bluemoose Books discuss 'The Northern Influence on Books & Culture'

A carnival of authors, poets, translators and publishers, under the banner of trailblazing agency BOOKBLAST® created by Georgia de Chamberet, will be travelling to major cities across England, showcasing some of the finest independent-spirited literature and poetry being published today.  

THE BOOKBLAST® 10x10 TOUR, in association with Waterstones, will visit nine regions of England, celebrating risk taking publishers who fill a unique niche in discovering talent.

This tour is about extraordinary writing. Writing that surprises, amazes and intrigues. Writing that challenges, disrupts and demands. Writing that is from the margins of culture portraying areas of life that the traditionalist mainstream often ignores. The tour will inspire readers, existing and new, to explore what’s happening in different parts of the world now, and to immerse themselves in the unfamiliar. Audiences will encounter writers from the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. With these events, BookBlast® aims to unite people in the spirit of friendship and exchange.

Speaking at this event are:

Kevin Duffy of Bluemoose Books, chair.
Bluemoose Books is an independent publisher based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Kevin and Hetha Duffy started Bluemoose in 2006. Their prizewinning writers include Benjamin Myers, Michael Stewart and Adrian Barnes. 
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Manchester-born, Colette Snowden, lives in Manchester with her three children. She is a journalist and went to St Andrews University. Her novel, The Secret to not Drowning, was Mumsnet Book of the month and chosen as a Brave New Reads 2016.

Dan Micklethwaite is an award-winning short story author and novelist who does most of his writing in a shed in West Yorkshire. His debut novel, The Less than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote, was shortlisted for The Guardian’s “Not the Booker Prize” in 2016.

The BOOKBLAST tour comes to Waterstones Newcastle on Wednesday 12 September, 6.30-7:30pm