Chloe de Lullington and Rozie Kelly: In Conversation | Thursday 10th July
Join us for a conversation with debut authors, Chloe de Lullington and Rozie Kelly to celebrate Pride month and the publication of Chloe’s audacious, darkly comic novel: Cacoethes and Rozie’s unmissable and beautiful novel: Kingfisher.
About Chloe
Chloe de Lullington (she/her) is a novelist and screenwriter based near Manchester. Often accused of being an 'old soul', she writes contemporary fiction observed from the margins, and is good at funny with a side of sad. Cacoethes is her first novel.
About Rozie
Rozie is a novelist based in West Yorkshire. After reading English Literature and Creative Writing she moved to Hebden Bridge, where she works for the Arvon Foundation, hosting creative writing courses. She was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize 2023 and was one of the eight participants in the inaugural Prototype Development Programme 2024. She won the 2024 NorthBound Book Award for Kingfisher, her debut novel.
The event will be held at Next Chapter Books, in the Corn Exchange, from 6.30pm - 7.45pm on Thursday 10th July.
Cacoethes is released in paperback on Thursday 5th June by Northodox Press and books for collection will be available upon release date.
Kingfisher is available now in paperback by Saraband press.
Please note, tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred to another named guest.
Cacoethes, Chloe de Lullington
"As a woman you can be three things: demonised, victimised, or fetishised. And as a sex worker, I’m three for the price of one."
18-year-old Erin is bisexual - she just doesn't know it yet. Freshly arrived at university and determined to embody the Cool Girl archetype, it's not long before a chance Tinder match reels this very modern ingenue into a world of BDSM and power-play that consumes and intrigues her as much as it stresses out her friends. And when that all falls apart, where could there possibly be left to rebound except the even murkier realm of sugar baby dating...?
Crashing through a world of transactional encounters, late nights, sexual awakenings, and more bad decisions than you can shake a stick at, Cacoethes is the story of one young outsider's quest for - well, she's not quite sure, actually.
Kingfisher, Rozie Kelly
She smelled like jasmine. No, not exactly. She smelled like the earth beneath a jasmine plant on a hot day.
Most of us are poets, she said. It’s just a question of how it comes out.
When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague – the poet – it is not long before it begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is everything he isn’t; she has everything he wants.
While he writes about steel and sex, she dreams about the movements of swallows. While he tends to his budding career, she writes from her big, white house in the woods. As he slips between his old life and this new one, his fixation grows into something more powerful. The poet, his Kingfisher, is his sole focus. He is hypnotised.
But when simultaneous illnesses threaten to destroy the precarious reality he clings to, he’s forced to question what he can and cannot take from someone. This is a novel about grief, power and desire – and the tangles in between that make up a life.
Rozie’s photo is taken by Harvey Williams-Fairley
Join us for a conversation with debut authors, Chloe de Lullington and Rozie Kelly to celebrate Pride month and the publication of Chloe’s audacious, darkly comic novel: Cacoethes and Rozie’s unmissable and beautiful novel: Kingfisher.
About Chloe
Chloe de Lullington (she/her) is a novelist and screenwriter based near Manchester. Often accused of being an 'old soul', she writes contemporary fiction observed from the margins, and is good at funny with a side of sad. Cacoethes is her first novel.
About Rozie
Rozie is a novelist based in West Yorkshire. After reading English Literature and Creative Writing she moved to Hebden Bridge, where she works for the Arvon Foundation, hosting creative writing courses. She was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize 2023 and was one of the eight participants in the inaugural Prototype Development Programme 2024. She won the 2024 NorthBound Book Award for Kingfisher, her debut novel.
The event will be held at Next Chapter Books, in the Corn Exchange, from 6.30pm - 7.45pm on Thursday 10th July.
Cacoethes is released in paperback on Thursday 5th June by Northodox Press and books for collection will be available upon release date.
Kingfisher is available now in paperback by Saraband press.
Please note, tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred to another named guest.
Cacoethes, Chloe de Lullington
"As a woman you can be three things: demonised, victimised, or fetishised. And as a sex worker, I’m three for the price of one."
18-year-old Erin is bisexual - she just doesn't know it yet. Freshly arrived at university and determined to embody the Cool Girl archetype, it's not long before a chance Tinder match reels this very modern ingenue into a world of BDSM and power-play that consumes and intrigues her as much as it stresses out her friends. And when that all falls apart, where could there possibly be left to rebound except the even murkier realm of sugar baby dating...?
Crashing through a world of transactional encounters, late nights, sexual awakenings, and more bad decisions than you can shake a stick at, Cacoethes is the story of one young outsider's quest for - well, she's not quite sure, actually.
Kingfisher, Rozie Kelly
She smelled like jasmine. No, not exactly. She smelled like the earth beneath a jasmine plant on a hot day.
Most of us are poets, she said. It’s just a question of how it comes out.
When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague – the poet – it is not long before it begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is everything he isn’t; she has everything he wants.
While he writes about steel and sex, she dreams about the movements of swallows. While he tends to his budding career, she writes from her big, white house in the woods. As he slips between his old life and this new one, his fixation grows into something more powerful. The poet, his Kingfisher, is his sole focus. He is hypnotised.
But when simultaneous illnesses threaten to destroy the precarious reality he clings to, he’s forced to question what he can and cannot take from someone. This is a novel about grief, power and desire – and the tangles in between that make up a life.
Rozie’s photo is taken by Harvey Williams-Fairley
Join us for a conversation with debut authors, Chloe de Lullington and Rozie Kelly to celebrate Pride month and the publication of Chloe’s audacious, darkly comic novel: Cacoethes and Rozie’s unmissable and beautiful novel: Kingfisher.
About Chloe
Chloe de Lullington (she/her) is a novelist and screenwriter based near Manchester. Often accused of being an 'old soul', she writes contemporary fiction observed from the margins, and is good at funny with a side of sad. Cacoethes is her first novel.
About Rozie
Rozie is a novelist based in West Yorkshire. After reading English Literature and Creative Writing she moved to Hebden Bridge, where she works for the Arvon Foundation, hosting creative writing courses. She was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize 2023 and was one of the eight participants in the inaugural Prototype Development Programme 2024. She won the 2024 NorthBound Book Award for Kingfisher, her debut novel.
The event will be held at Next Chapter Books, in the Corn Exchange, from 6.30pm - 7.45pm on Thursday 10th July.
Cacoethes is released in paperback on Thursday 5th June by Northodox Press and books for collection will be available upon release date.
Kingfisher is available now in paperback by Saraband press.
Please note, tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred to another named guest.
Cacoethes, Chloe de Lullington
"As a woman you can be three things: demonised, victimised, or fetishised. And as a sex worker, I’m three for the price of one."
18-year-old Erin is bisexual - she just doesn't know it yet. Freshly arrived at university and determined to embody the Cool Girl archetype, it's not long before a chance Tinder match reels this very modern ingenue into a world of BDSM and power-play that consumes and intrigues her as much as it stresses out her friends. And when that all falls apart, where could there possibly be left to rebound except the even murkier realm of sugar baby dating...?
Crashing through a world of transactional encounters, late nights, sexual awakenings, and more bad decisions than you can shake a stick at, Cacoethes is the story of one young outsider's quest for - well, she's not quite sure, actually.
Kingfisher, Rozie Kelly
She smelled like jasmine. No, not exactly. She smelled like the earth beneath a jasmine plant on a hot day.
Most of us are poets, she said. It’s just a question of how it comes out.
When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague – the poet – it is not long before it begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is everything he isn’t; she has everything he wants.
While he writes about steel and sex, she dreams about the movements of swallows. While he tends to his budding career, she writes from her big, white house in the woods. As he slips between his old life and this new one, his fixation grows into something more powerful. The poet, his Kingfisher, is his sole focus. He is hypnotised.
But when simultaneous illnesses threaten to destroy the precarious reality he clings to, he’s forced to question what he can and cannot take from someone. This is a novel about grief, power and desire – and the tangles in between that make up a life.
Rozie’s photo is taken by Harvey Williams-Fairley