Bryony Rheam - one of Zimbabwe's finest writers - in conversation with Julie Pike

Her work includes the novel This September Sun and a new short story collection, Whatever Happened to Rick Astley?

So come along and find out with Parthian Books and Firefly Press, two leading Welsh publishers. Firefly brings Julie Pike, originally from Neath, now living in the Forest of Dean, author of magical middle grade adventure Flamechasers.

Interviewed by Richard Davies

TICKETS

Tickets are FREE but limitied. Please email Jules on jules@northbooks.co.uk or pop into the shop to reserve your place.

At North Books, 4 Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye on Wednesday 23rd April, 5.30-7.30pm.

THE AUTHOR

Bryony was born in Kadoma, Zimbabwe, in 1974. Her first novel, This September Sun, was published in 2009 in Zimbabwe and 2013 in the UK. It won Best First Book at the Zimbabwean Publishers' Awards in 2010. Her second novel, All Come To Dust, was published in 2020. It is a crime novel set in Bulawayo. It won in the Best Fiction category at the Bulawayo Arts Awards in 2021 and a National Arts Merit Award in 2022. In 2023, her collection of short stories, Whatever Happened to Rick Astley? was published. “I enjoy reading crime novels – my favourite author is Agatha Christie - and literary fiction and love mixing the two in my writing,” she says.

This should be a fun, lively event and we hope you can join us in hearing Bryony talk about her writing journey and Parthian Press releasing its summer programme.