Description
Fiction can be a powerful force, helping unpick the rules and identities imposed on us.
These ideas go to the heart of Caleb Azumah Nelson’s work. His acclaimed debut, Open Water, established him as a literary sensation and now he’s back with Small Worlds. Set over the course of three summers alternating between London and Ghana, it’s an exhilarating story about fathers and sons, faith and friendship and the worlds we build for ourselves.
Caleb is joined by Jessica George whose stunning debut novel, Maame, charts the story of a modern woman desperately trying to break free from the shackles of her Ghanaian parents’ expectations and her attempts to weave together the threads of her life that make her who she is.
Caleb and Jessica celebrate stories that take their characters on journeys of self-realisation. Join them as they examine perceived notions of identity and discuss the influences behind their own work.
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About the Authors
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a 29-year-old British-Ghanaian writer and photographer living in South East London. His first novel, Open Water, won the Costa First Novel Award and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, and was a no.1 Times bestseller. It also won the Bad Form Book of the Year Award, a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, Waterstones Book of the Year, and longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. He was selected as a National Book Foundation ‘5 under 35’ honoree by Brit Bennett. His second novel, Small Worlds, will be published in May 2023.
Jessica George
Jessica George was born and raised in London to Ghanaian parents and studied English Literature at the University of Sheffield. After working at a literary agency and a theatre, she landed a job in the editorial department of a publishing house. She now lives in North London with an incontrovertible sweet tooth and the knowledge that she can consume half a cake by herself if left to her own devices.
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