BÀRD DEBUTS NIGHT at Bàrd Books

JOIN US for the latest of a monthly night celebrating debut author. Including novels, short stories and poetry, meet the faces behind the work as they each take the stage for 10 minutes to present their work, giving you a chance to discover something new and exciting before the rest of the world catches on.

Alive with energy and purpose, ‘We Were There’ by Lanre Baker decisively expands our sense of who we are. Confronting, joyful and thrilling, this is a profoundly important new portrait of modern Britain.

Krystelle Bamford’s ‘Idle Grounds’ is a chilling, evocative and darkly comic debut about childhood, legacy, and the burdens and privileges we carry with us.

‘Mere’ by Danielle Giles is a hypnotic historical novel about fear and survival, power and position, and a love that takes hold in the darkest of places.

‘Fair Play’ by Louise Hegarty is the puzzle-box story of two competing tales that brilliantly lay bare the real truth of life – the terrifying mystery of grief.

Paris, 1900 and carousel-maker Gilbert works tirelessly to finish his masterpiece in time for the city’s Exposition Universelle.
Chicago, 1920: having come to America for a new life, when Maisie unearths a neglected carousel, she seizes the chance for a new destiny. But twenty years ago, the carousel was linked to a number of people inexplicably disappearing – and now history has begun to repeat itself. ‘The Midnight Carousel’ by Fiza Saeed McFlynn