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SUMMARY:Meet the Bàrd: Ben Pester and Keith Ridgway at Bàrd Books
LOCATION:Meet the Bàrd: Ben Pester and Keith Ridgway at Bàrd Books\, E3 5QR
DESCRIPTION:BEN PESTER is the author of the short story collection Am I in the Right Place? (2021) and the novel The Expansion Project (2025)\, which was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards and the Goldsmiths Prize. "Pester is a genius of capturing the vicissitudes of contemporary life" LUKE KENNARD Sail Away Land is the space where we might go when we’re no longer alive (sometimes only temporarily). In this uncommon and disarming collection\, the characters go ‘there’ with or without knowing it. Maybe they have been living there all along without noticing – just like they hadn’t really noticed that everyone is carrying a shiny black suitcase. Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London. His novels include A Shock\, which won the 2021 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Goldsmith’s Prize\; Hawthorn & Child\; and Animals. His first novel The Long Falling was filmed by Martin Provost as Où Va La Nuit in 2011. He has been awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger\, the O Henry award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. The astonishing Irish literary magician Keith Ridgway pulls from his hat the Great Dublin Novel for the 21st century....
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