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HAY FESTIVAL | NIALL GRIFFITHS, CYNAN JONES AND CHRISTIEN GHOLSON TALK TO SUSIE WILD


Event 276 • Thursday 2 June 2011, 6.45pm • Venue: Elmley Foundation Theatre

TEN POUND POMS, FISH CAUGHT IN THE WIND AND EVERYTHING I FOUND ON THE BEACH

Griffiths emigrated to Australia as a seven year old. Thirty years later he revisits and remembers why he left in the first place. Jones’s second novel Everything I Found on the Beach returns to the west Wales coast in the shape of a taut sharp thriller. Wandering American poet Gholson’s novel is about a shoal of fish and the dance troupe who once got naked at the Vatican.
Price: £5.00

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