Author Michel Faber at Rye Books Thursday 21st January 7pm

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Thursday 21st January 7pm

Author Michel Faber at Rye Books

We have a real treat for you, author Michel Faber is coming to Rye Books to discuss his latest novel ?The Book Of Strange New Things? his first since ?Crimson Petal And The White?, we are very lucky to have Michel with us, he is coming all the way from Scotland for the event.

Michel Faber has written seven other books, including of course the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fahrenheit Twins and the Whitbread-shortlisted novel Under the Skin. The Apple, based on characters in The Crimson Petal and the White, was published in 2006. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps (2001) and The Courage Consort (2002), and has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the Scottish Highlands.

More about the book...

'The Book Of New Strange Things'.

Peter Leigh is called on a Journey of a Lifetime, a highly unusual humanitarian mission into deep space. One that will take him light-years from his beloved wife, Bea. As Peter pushes up against his own limits, word reaches him that Bea's world back home is falling apart. Faber's novel asks how love might survive such distance.

'A masterpiece...I didn't so much read The Book of Strange New Things as inhabit it?

DAVID MITCHELL

?A work of originality and insight, as gripping as any thriller?

THE TIMES

?A novel of marvel and wonderment with a narrative engine like a locomotive?

YANN MARTEL

We are expecting a lot of interest in this event so we are ticketing for the first time! Tickets will be sold for ?2 each, the cost of which can be redeemed against the price of the book should you wish to purchase it. On sale now!

See you there, we'll be serving up great coffee from The Old Spike Roastery and gorgeous cake from South East Cakery.