Description
Don’t miss this literary meeting of minds with acclaimed writers, Tom Crewe and James Cahill.
Tom Crewe’s dazzling debut novel, The New Life, has been praised for its virtuoso brilliance. Set in London during the tail end of the Victorian era, the story revolves around John and Henry, whose shared vision for the future unites them to write a revolutionary book in defiance of convention and the law. Their daring book threatens to throw John and Henry and all those around them into danger. How far should they go to win personal freedoms?
Tom will be joined by James Cahill, whose widely praised debut new novel, Tiepolo Blue, is a bold story of art, privilege and power and was recently shortlisted for the Author’s Club ‘Best First Novel Award.’
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About the Authors
Tom Crewe
Tom Crewe was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he contributes essays on politics, art, history and fiction. The New Life is his first novel.
James Cahill
James Cahill is a writer based in London. His short biography of David Hockney was published in 2021 by Laurence King. His debut novel, Tiepolo Blue, was published in 2022 by Sceptre, and was recently shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. His second novel, The Violet Hour, is due in 2024. His writing has appeared in publications including Frieze, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. He was the lead author and consulting editor of Flying Too Close to the Sun (Phaidon Books, 2018), a survey of classical myth in art from antiquity to the present day.
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