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Clare Morgan and Tim Pears in Conversation

Thursday 2nd March 2023
19:00 at Waterstones, Oxford

Clare Morgan and Tim Pears in Conversation Clare Morgan and Tim Pears in Conversation

Join us for an evening with Clare Morgan and Tim Pears in conversation about their short fiction.

About the Books
The stories in Scar Tissue appear under the enigmatic headings of Space, Home, Away, Nowhere, Somewhere. Through a wide variety of characters and situations, Clare Morgan's subjects include sex, death, relationships, belonging and displacement. Engaging, beautifully made tales for our time.

A wife compulsively digs in her garden. Two brothers, long estranged, reunite for a terse, heady summer. A woman flies to Krakow to see her adult son. At dusk, a teenage girl pushes her dying mother out into the sea. A small boy sits on his own in the cinema, entranced by the cowboys who light up the screen. With these short stories, Tim Pears illuminates a series of blazing moments in quiet lives - the tragic, strange, funny and beautiful fragments that make and unmake us - and shines a light into the gulfs that lie between us and those who should know us best.

About the Authors
Clare Morgan is a writer, educator and literary critic. She is founder and director of Oxford University’s creative writing programme and a fellow of Kellogg College. She is also a consultant, adviser and speaker on the role of the arts and humanities in influencing and enhancing the culture of private, public and social enterprises.
 
Tim Pears is an acclaimed author, his debut novel The Place of Fallen Leaves published in 1993 won the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award and the Hawthornden Prize. He has been Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. He has also taught creative writing for the Arvon Foundation, Oxford University, and Ruskin College, among others.

Oxford Waterstones, Oxford
Thursday 2nd March 2023
19:00

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