'A Theatre For Dreamers' Online Event

Polly Samson will be in conversation with Meri Fatin on Wednesday 3rd June 2020 to discuss her new novel A Theatre for Dreamers published by Bloomsbury.

WHEN:        Wednesday 3 June 2020 via ZOOM

8.00pm QLD/NSW/VIC/TAS        7.30pm SA/NT        6.00pm WA        11.00am UK

ABOUT THE BOOK:

1960. The world is dancing on the edge of revolution, and nowhere more so than on the Greek island of Hydra, where a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives, ruled by the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled king and queen of bohemia. Forming within this circle is a triangle- its points the magnetic, destructive writer Axel Jensen, his dazzling wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian poet named Leonard Cohen.

Into their midst arrives teenage Erica, with little more than a bundle of blank notebooks and her grief for her mother. Settling on the periphery of this circle, she watches, entranced and disquieted, as a paradise unravels.

Burning with the heat and light of Greece, A Theatre for Dreamers is a spellbinding novel about utopian dreams and innocence lost and the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius.

Polly Samson is the author of two short story collections and two previous novels. Her work has been shortlisted for numerous prizes, translated into several languages and has been dramatised on BBC Radio 4. Her novel The Kindness was named Book of the Year by The Times and Observer. She has written lyrics for four Number One albums, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

SUPPORT LOCAL - LOVE YOUR BOOKSHOP - BACK YOUR BOOKSHOP

Australian Bookshops have rallied for their communities in these past few weeks, with many moving to home deliveries, flat fee postage, online story times and bookclubs, as well as online author events like this.  Whilst this event has been created by one of those Australian Bookshops, now is the time to support your own local bookshop and purchase Polly Samson's novel from them, either before this event or after it.

Thank you to Bloomsbury for making this possible.

LOCATION:

Online ZOOM event - Tickets $10

A unique link will be sent out 1 hour prior to the event to ticket holders. Your video and microphone is not used in this event, the link gives you the ability to watch the conversation live and pose questions via your screen. Ticketing will close 30 minutes prior to the event.