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Launching The Glass Hotel with Emily St. John Mandel & Octavia Bright

 

Join award-winning, critically-lauded author Emily St. John Mandel in her first UK event discussing her highly-anticipated new novel The Glass Hotel, with writer and co-host of Literary Friction, Octavia Bright.

Join award-winning, critically-lauded author Emily St. John Mandeldiscussing her highly-anticipated new novel The Glass Hotel, with writer and co-host of Literary Friction, Octavia Bright.Weaving together the lives bartender Vincent, financier Jonathan and shipping executive Leon Prevant, The Glass Hotel moves between the luxury Hotel Caiette, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breath-taking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.Join Emily as she discusses with Octavia this new direction of her writing, the legacy of her bestselling Station Eleven, and the relevance of her work to our unstable modern times.Tickets cost 10 / 8 students and Plus cardholders including a glass of wine or a soft drink