Barbara Kingsolver

Please note, this is now taking place on THURSDAY 1ST JUNE at the Bath Pavilion, N Parade Road.

Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of ten novels including Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees. She has both won and been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

We are delighted to announce Barbara will be joining us in Bath to talk on her new novel Demon Copperhead. This novel has just won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize and is shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (announced on the 14th June).

Featured in our 2022 bookseller advent, Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can.

Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise.

In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty and addiction aren't ideas. They're as natural as the grass grows. For Demon, born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day. The wonder is in how far he's willing to travel to try and get there.

Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.

Please note, due to an injury, Barbara will not be signing at this event.

'[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories. . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.' - ANN PATCHETT

'It's EPIC. Righteously angry, DEEPLY moving and exquisitely written.' - MARIAN KEYES