Reading Group
Tuesday 14th May
Venue
First Floor, Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely, 9 High Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4LJ
First Floor, Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely, 9 High Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4LJ
Doors Open
7pm
7pm
Start Time
7.30pm
7.30pm
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
Tuesday, May 14th at 7.30pm
Award-winning local author, Francis Spufford, returns with a thrilling tale of murder and mystery, in a city where history has run a little differently.
It's 1922 and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. In the ancient city of Cahokia - a teeming industrial metropolis, a tinderbox of every race and creed - peace holds. Just about.
But on a snowy night at the end of winter, two roughshod detectives are called to the roof of a skyscraper. Their investigation will spill the city's secrets and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets, either to destruction or rebirth.
Stuart