Best-selling novelist Louise Doughty will be the guest at this year’s Author’s Breakfast, organised by the Isle of Man Fund for the Blind.
She has penned eight novels, including the critically acclaimed Apple Tree Yard, which has been sold in 28 languages and been adapted for a four-part BBC1 series starring Emily Watson which is currently in post-production.
The award-winning author is also a celebrated radio dramatist and short story writer, as well as a respected critic and cultural commentator for UK and international media, with her popular newspaper column inspiring her sole non-fiction book, A Novel in a Year.
During the Author’s Breakfast, at the Palace Hotel, Douglas, on 28th November, Louise will be reading from and talking about her latest novel, Black Water, which was recently published by Faber & Faber.
Moving between Europe during the Cold War, California and the Civil Rights struggle and Indonesia during the massacres of 1965 and the decades of military dictatorship that followed, Black Water is an epic novel that explores some of the darkest events of recent world history through the story of one troubled man, John Harper.
The book will be available to purchase at the breakfast.
Manx Blind Welfare Society Volunteers Coordinator and Events Organiser Debbie Thomson said: ‘We are absolutely delighted to be welcoming Louise Doughty to this year’s Author’s Breakfast. She is an award-winning and critically acclaimed writer whose novels are sold all over the world. In addition, she has enjoyed great success writing short stories and radio dramas, as well as working as a critic and commentator for major media outlets.
‘Louise joins us shortly after the publication of her eighth novel, which critics have described as “absolutely gripping”, and ahead of the broadcast of the TV adaptation of Apple Tree Yard, so it is a very exciting time to have her as a guest.’
She added: ‘The Author’s Breakfast is always one of the highlights of the year and we expect this year to be as popular as ever, so we’d advise booking tickets early to avoid disappointment.
‘I’d like to thank the Isle of Man Fund for the Blind for organising this event, which will help raise important funds to allow the Society to continue providing services and support to blind and visually impaired people in the Island. The Fund works tirelessly on a huge range of fundraising events and its support is invaluable.’
Tickets for the Author’s Breakfast, which cost ?23 including a full English breakfast, are available from Corrin Court in Onchan or by calling 674727.
To find out more about the work of MBWS visit www.mbws.org.im.
Photo - Louise Doughty courtesy of Charlie Hopkinson.
