Feb
23
7:00pm
Kim Sherwood – A Wild & True Relation
By The Portobello Bookshop
We can't wait to host the Edinburgh launch event for Kim Sherwood's new book, A Wild & True Relation! Kim will be here in the bookshop to tell us all about the inspirations behind her upcoming historical novel. She'll be in conversation with fellow writer Fiona Mozley.
This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. There will be a signing after the event.
In-person vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against a single copy of A Wild & True Relation – we will have a list of attendees with vouchers to be redeemed. Please note that only one voucher can be redeemed per book. Livestream vouchers are valid until the day after the event and can be redeemed on the website against a single copy of A Wild & True Relation.
About A Wild & True Relation:
A Wild & True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1703, as smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace for betraying him to the Revenue. Leaving Grace's cottage in flames, he takes her orphaned daughter Molly on board ship disguised as a boy to join his crew. But Molly, or Orlando as she must call herself, will grow up to outshine all the men of Tom's company and seek revenge - and a legacy - all of her own.
Woven into Molly's story are the writers - from Celia Fiennes to Hester Thrale to George Eliot - who are transfixed by her myth and who, over three centuries, come together to solve the mystery of her life. With extraordinary verve and chutzpah, Sherwood remakes the eighteenth-century Heroical novel and celebrates women's writing and women's roles throughout history.
Kim Sherwood is an author and creative writing lecturer. Her first novel, Testament, published in 2018, won the Bath Novel Award and the Harper's Bazaar Big Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. In 2019, Kim was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Kim is currently writing a trilogy of Double O novels for the Ian Fleming Estate, expanding the James Bond universe with new heroes for the 21st century. The first title, Double or Nothing, was published by HarperCollins in 2022. Her next literary novel, A Wild & True Relation will be published by Virago in February 2023.
Fiona Mozley is the author of two novels, Elmet and Hot Stew, and several short stories. She is the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award and The Polari Prize, has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize, The Ondaatje Prize, and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and The Women's Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Financial Times, The New Statesman and British Vogue. She lives in Edinburgh.
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