A BookBlast 10x10 Tour LIVE event from Waterstones Norwich, Castle Street (11.10.2018) Sam Jordison, co-director of Galley Beggar Press (Modernist Contemporary) in Norwich, is also an author, teacher and journalist. Galley Beggar's early success with experimental debut novel 'A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing' by Eimear McBride was a game-changer.

WITH Alex Pheby a.k.a. the new Beckett, who teaches at the University of Greenwich. Alex’s second novel, 'Playthings,' was shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize. His latest book, 'Lucia', is about James Joyce’s schizophrenic daughter who was Beckett’s lover. AND Paul Stanbridge whose novel, 'Forbidden Line,' was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the first novel category in the inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize, 2017. AND Paul Ewen, a New Zealand writer whose first novel, 'Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author,' won a Society of Authors McKitterick Prize. 'Francis Plug: Writer In Residence' was published in October 2018. Topics: What is Modernism?; Can you be a modernist writer after post-modernism?; How to make a whole out of disunity; Small presses finding other incomes for their authors; 3 brief readings; 'Lucia' (James Joyce's daughter) is a portrait in silhouette; Academic ageism; The effect of the internet on writing and publishing. Titles discussed: 'Lucia', 'Forbidden Line' and 'Francis Plug: Writer In Residence' – all available from www.galleybeggar.co.uk Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Ben Fiagbe.

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