Join us to hear Jordan Tannahill discuss his stunning new novel, The Living Realm.

We are thrilled to welcome Jordan Tannahill to Blackwell's to discuss his new novel about a British expat in Berlin who begins to see his dead lovers at a cruising lake on the outskirts of the city.. With praise from Douglas Stewart, Josh Silver and Garth Greenwell, The Living Realm feels like a future classic in the making and we can't wait to share it with you.

Doors: 6.30pm (The shop is open for browsing beforehand, and the cafe closes at 6.30pm)

Starts: 6.45pm

General admission is £5 or included in the price of a Book & Ticket option.

About the book:

While cruising one evening by Teufelssee, a small glacial lake in the Grunewald forest on the edge of Berlin, a man spots a handsome stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to his former lover. Only, Lukas died nearly thirty years ago. Yet the man cannot shake the feeling that it was really Lukas he saw.

Over the course of one long, hot summer with friends and lovers at the lake, this first sighting sets off a string of strange encounters. As the man learns more of Teufelssee, he finds himself venturing deeper into the mystery of the surrounding forest. He begins to wonder if these meetings are real or imagined, if they take place in the past or the present, and what they might reveal about the nature of time itself and his place within its flow.

Part ghost story, part love story, this ecstatic, sexy and exquisitely written novel offers an elegy to the ways our lives become entangled with history, the natural world and those we love.

About the author:

Jordan Tannahill is the author of The Listeners, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and adapted into a major BBC drama series, and the debut novel, Liminal, which received France’s Prix des Jeunes Libraires. He has twice received Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Drama. His plays and performance texts have been presented at venues including the Young Vic Theatre, Festival d’Avignon, Deutsches Theater in Berlin, Volkstheater in Vienna, and on the West End. His most recent play, Prince Faggot, ran Off-Broadway in New York for seven months.

If you cannot make the event but would like a dedicated copy of the book, please email events.manchester@blackwell.co.uk or call us on 0161 274 3331.

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