Enjoy an in-conversation with Stephen May – “The spry, sardonic voice of the new historical fiction” Hilary Mantel.
Stephen’s latest book Green Ink is based on the real-life story of former Colne Valley MP Victor Grayson, a bisexual hedonist and secret service informant. Victor vanished one night in late September 1920, having threatened to reveal all he knew about Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s involvement in selling honours.
Was he murdered by the British government? By enemies in the Socialist movement (who he had betrayed in the war)? Did he fall in the Thames drunk? Did he vanish to save his own life, and become an antiques dealer in Kent?
Whatever the truth, Green Ink imagines what might have been with brio, humour and humanity; and is a reminder that the past was once as alive as we are today.
“Stephen May has a nose for fascinating historical events” The Times
“Vivid and wholly credible recreation of post-Great War London” Robert Edric
Stephen May is the author of six novels including Life! Death! Prizes! which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and The Guardian Not The Booker Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year and is a winner of the Media Wales Reader’s Prize. He has also written plays, as well as for television and film. He lives in West Yorkshire.
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Date: Friday 16 May
Time: 6pm-7pm
Location: Cellar, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Queen Street, Huddersfield HD1 2SP
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