Norwich Book Slam

Each month in 2024, a handful of emerging authors will read from their latest books, in the intimate comfort of our Music Room. Grab yourself a drink from the bar and join other book lovers as these fresh voices bring their words to life, topped off with a Q&A hosted by Chris Parker.

• ASHLEY HICKSON-LOVENCE is a novelist, poet and university tutor with a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia. His debut novel The 392 was published in 2019 and his second novel Your Show was released in 2022. His first young adult verse-novel Wild East, comes out with Penguin next month.

• PAUL STANBRIDGE grew up in Essex. Forbidden Line, his debut novel, was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott prize and won the inaugural Republic of Consciousness first novel prize. His Encyclopaedia of St Arbuc, available at st-arbuc.co.uk, has been described as “a work…