Celebrating Local Authors at Berwick Library

09 Feb 2022 ARCHIVED (over 3 months old) - view latest news

Local authors Jessie Greengrass and Christie J Newport will be having a discussion with interviewer Jackie Kaines- Lang at Berwick Library on Tuesday 15 March at 1pm. This will be a brilliant opportunity to gain an insight into the life of an author and about what inspires them.

Please feel free to bring along your lunch as you listen to our authors in conversation and have the chance to ask them your own questions.

Jessie Greengrass lives in Berwick and is the author of three books An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, Sight and The High House.  The High House was published in 2021 and was shortlised for the Costa Best Novel Award. 

The High House - "Crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static. Francesca is Caro’s stepmother and Pauly’s mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen. The high house was once her holiday home, now looked after by locals Grandy and Sally, she has turned it into an ark, for when the time comes. The mill powers the generator, the orchard is carefully pruned, the greenhouse has all its glass intact. Almost a family, but not quite, they plant, store seed, and watch the weather carefully."  Why not borrow a Jessie Greengrass book beforehand from your local library or BorrowBox.  Take a look at our reading list for ideas.  

Christie J Newport is a rising author with two books due out. Branded (which is a working title) is due out in Autumn and Whittingham which currently does not have a release date. Christie won the inaugural Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour.

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There will also be a display of books in Berwick Library championing local authors available from Monday 14 March- Saturday 19 March.