EDGEHill University will welcome a debut novelist back to campus for a reading of her book exploring survivalism and the legacy of Chernobyl.<\/p>\n
Dr Philippa Holloways first novel The Half-Life of Snails is set across a narrative split between North Wales and Ukraine during a time of civil unrest.<\/p>\n
The free reading and Q&A will take place at Edge Hill University on Wednesday 11 May from 4.30pm to 6pm.<\/p>\n
Professor Jo Crotty, director of Institute for Social Responsibility at Edge Hill University and an expert in the former Soviet Union, will host the Q&A and draw on her experiences of travelling to Chernobyl and Kyshtym the site of a 1957 nuclear accident.<\/p>\n
She said:\"ISR is delighted to welcome Dr Philippa Holloway to celebrate the release of her debut novel,The Half-Life of Snails.<\/p>\n
\"This event willexplore the themes of the book, including nuclear power and communities, the legacy of disaster, borderlands and the use of psychogeography as research for fiction writing,and a guest appearance by Alex Lockwood, author ofThe Chernobyl Privileges.\"<\/p>\n
A former Graduate Teaching Assistant at Edge Hill, Dr Holloway is an internationally published short fiction writer and academic, and a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Staffordshire University. Her debut novel is drawn from extensive research in Chernobyls Exclusion Zone and North Wales.<\/p>\n
The Q&A will be held with Edge Hill academics:<\/p>\n
The event is free but people are asked toregister their place in advance.<\/p>\n
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