Carolyn will be in conversation with Alan Bilton about her latest novel Time, Again. Carolyn will also be discussing her revised edition of The Short Story – A Perfect Recipe: A Guide to Writing Short Stories.

Saturday July 12th at 2.00pm – Cover to Cover Bookshop, 58 Newton Rd, Mumbles, Swansea SA3 4BQ

"I became immersed in the enchanting illogicality of proceedings ... At Dawn, Two Nightingales works its magic on both readers and characters ... a fun, eccentric and profane read" - Hannah's Bookshelf. You can hear the whole review here.

Carolyn will be in conversation with Alan Bilton about her latest novel Time, Again. Carolyn will also be discussing her revised edition of The Short Story – A Perfect Recipe: A Guide to Writing Short Stories.

Saturday July 12th at 2.00pm – Cover to Cover Bookshop, 58 Newton Rd, Mumbles, Swansea SA3 4BQ

Great to catch up with the brilliant US novelist, Edward Matthews, whose scorching portrayal of a racially and economically divided US, in the pocket of big tech and morally corrupt authoritarian figures, obviously has nothing to do with what is going on today

The last few copies of Border Memories are in stock - grab one before they’re gone.

Missed Alan Bilton talking about ‘At Dawn, Two Nightingales’ on Hannah’s Bookshelf on Saturday? Well, fear not, because you can listen again at https://www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Bookshelf/hannahs-bookshelf-pick-and-mix-10052025/https://www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Bookshelf/hannahs-bookshelf-pick-and-mix-10052025/

Alan Bilton will once again host this year’s International Dylan Thomas Prize ceremony on Thursday May 15th. Launched in 2006, the annual Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize is one of the most prestigious awards for young writers, aimed at encouraging raw creative talent worldwide. It celebrates and nurtures international literary excellence.

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/dylan-thomas-prize/

Alan Bilton will be talking about his new novel, At Dawn, Two Nightingales’, a comic opera in novel form set in 18thC Bohemia, at the Llandeilo Literary Festival, Sunday 27th April, 12.30.

Tickets from https://www.llandeilolitfest.org/

Carolyn Lewis and Alan Bilton will be discussing their new novels - At Dawn, Two Nightingales, and Time, Again - at Waterstones in Swansea on Wed February 12th at 6pm. Fee entry and all welcome! https://www.waterstones.com/events/alan-bilton-in-conversation-with-carolyn-lewis/swansea

Carolyn Lewis and Alan Bilton will be at Chepstow Books on Wed 5th Feb, for the launch of Carolyn’s new novel, ‘Time, Again’.

Chepstow Book Shop - 13, St. Mary Street, Chepstow NP16 5EW 6.30 start

Free & All welcome.

Writing Outside The Lines: Breaking the Rules of Fiction

A Creative Writing Workshop, Swansea Central Library, Saturday 18th Jan, 11-12.30.

What happens if the usual rules of realism don't apply, gravity is suspended, and you allow your imagination to float free? Join us for an engaging, hands on introduction to breaking the rules of fiction.

One of the pleasures of this week has been to be able to get round to Alan Bilton's new novel, "At Dawn, Two Nightingales", which I've been saving, as he's an author whose worlds I like to become absorbed in, rather than just dipping in in odd moments. And what a world this is, richly described but intangible and unstable, where all is theatrical artifice, and lurking behind each shaky set is something enticingly dark. A picaresque quest for love, and a melancholic celebration of the power of ambiguous texts, it's full of the twisty loops that have characterised his previous novels, with nods, bows, and backhanded to Potocki, Bruno Schulz, Gogol, Nezval, Bulgakov, and, I feel, the Marx Brothers, Jimmy Cagney, and more contemporary references. Literary, playful, and a tiny bit unsettling. Great stuff

“What a strange, intriguing, alluringly bizarre book this is. It is, in the best way, a tad unhinged” - read Niall Griffiths’ review of At Dawn, Two Nightingales at https://nation.cymru/culture/book-review-at-dawn-two-nightingales-by-alan-bilton/