Ania Bas & Kate Sawyer

Ania Bas & Kate Sawyer

23rd Sep 2023 4:30pm - 5:30pm
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at The Heath Bookshop

Units 3&4 Kings Court, R/O 94 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7JZ
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We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have ANIA BAS and KATE SAWYER joining us here at The Heath Bookshop. Ania will be talking about her book 'Odd Hours' and Kate will be talking about her book 'This Family'.

Saturday 23rd September 2023 at 4:30pm


Ania and Kate will be in conversation for around an hour. There will then be a book signing afterwards. 


Ania Bas is an artist, writer and arts organiser. Her work has been commissioned by the Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Art on the Underground, Yorkshire Artspace. Ania is a co-founder of The Walking Reading Group (2013 – ongoing). She is Open School East Alumna (2013-2014) and Faber Academy Alumna (2018). Her debut novel, Odd Hours, came out in June 2022. She is due to present a new text based artwork at Coventry Biennial 2023.

ODD HOURS: Meet Gosia. She’s a sensitive soul with a filthy mind and problems with intimacy. Between shifts in a well-lit budget supermarket and nights in a badly lit Zone 3 flat share, she spends hours inside her own head. That is, until a chance encounter snaps her out of her reverie. Propelled into a series of mediocre jobs, lousy dates and even worse sex, the prickly yet warm-hearted Gosia begins an excavation of the “perfect” life so many dream of. After all, could there be more to it than she imagined?
@aniabas_uk

Kate Sawyer worked as an actor, producer and wrote several short films before turning her hand to fiction. Her debut novel, The Stranding, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian fiction prize, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for TV by Fremantle and Afua Hirsch production company, Born In Me. Her second novel This Family was published in May this year to great critical acclaim. She is the host of Novel Experience, a weekly podcast where she talks to authors about their writing practices and the experiences that brought them to, through and beyond publication. After twenty years living in London, and briefly New York and LA, she recently returned to her native Bury St Edmunds, where, as a solo mother by choice, she lives with her young daughter.

THIS FAMILY: Splintered in a dozen different ways, Mary’s family must come together for her wedding day in the home that has been both battleground and sanctuary for them all. The place where so many things have fallen apart will now become the site of a long-awaited union. Could it also see the mending of broken sibling bonds and the healing of bruised hearts, or are some thing impossible to forgive? Even when it’s family? With shades of Mrs Dalloway, This Family is set over the course of an English summer's day but punctuated with memories from the past forty years of love and loss, hope and joy, heartbreak and grief. This is the story of a family told by a chorus of characters. It is an exploration of the small moments that bring us to where we are, the changes that are brought about by time, and what, despite everything, stays the same.

@mskatesawyer