HAY FESTIVAL, HAY-ON-WYE, JUNE 2nd 2013 Memories of revolution Chris Keil and Julian Preece in conversation with New Welsh Review editor Gwen Davies. As markets collapse and bankers gorge themselves on bonuses, Chris Keil and Julian Preece look back to the 1970s, when revolution seemed about to change the world. Chris Keil’s latest novel Flirting at the Funeral …
Flirting at the Funeral at Gort Festival
?”The unpurged images of day recede;the Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed.”Flirting at the Funeral and Cillian Press are going to Gort Festival!!
Flirting News
Storming review of “Flirting at the Funeral” in the latest New Welsh Review – NWR99 – OUT TODAY! “Keil writes beautifully…” Thank you very much! Hay Festival. Hay-on-Wye, June 2nd 2013: Chris Keil, author of “Flirting at the Funeral” and Julian Preece – “Baader Meinhof and the Novel” – in conversation with Gwen Davies, editor New Welsh Review… EXPLOSIVE!! …
FLIRTING AT HAY-ON-WYE
I will be talking about my new novel “Flirting at the Funeral” at the Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, on June 2nd 2013. Be there! The GLASTONBURY of literature festivals!
Memories of 2009
La Torre de Dalt I spent the last days of the summer in a literary residency at La Torre de Dalt, in Catalunya; a beautiful medieval building, a little palace of marble floors, elaborate dark mirrors and vaulted ceilings, on the first slopes of the hills above Girona. La Torre looks down on a landscape that is both benign and …
Marni Jackson’s review of “Flirting at the Funeral.”
Writer, award winning journalist and film co-writer, Toronto based Marni Jackson gives her thoughts on Chris Keil’s latest novel Flirting at the Funeral. “Matty, the character I found so charming in the early bits, evolves into a wonderful monster, whose artistry is undermined by ambition, narcissism and and living in the past. Howard became one of my favourite characters, his …
Aberystwyth Book Festival
Author Chris Keil in conversation with New Welsh Review Editor Gwen Davies at the Aberystwyth University Book Festival
Review in NWR
“Portugal, romance, film, terrorism, materialism & European capitalism. Highly topical, in the week the European Council got the Nobel Peace Prize! Chris Keil’s Flirting at the Funeral is reviewed by Katherine Stansfield in NWR spring edition.” Gwen Davies, Editor New Welsh Review
Flirting at the Funeral: The Movie
View PostFlirting at the Funeral: The Movie!
Click on the link below to watch the fabulous Cillian Press filmed interview with Chris Keil, author of Flirting at the Funeral. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-894F4NZhyg … … … …
Flirting at the Funeral review
“Chris Keil’s third novel, Flirting at the Funeral, opens with a disturbing image: a dead cow, floating downriver, close to the campus of a Welsh college. The second chapter sees a school teacher showing his charges around a French town, where Nazi soldiers herded people to their death – a neat verbal echo of something we’ve seen in the opening …
Flirting at the Funeral
To no doubt universal amazement, I may sometimes use this post to promote my new novel, “Flirting at the Funeral” published by Cillian Press in September 2012. There is more information about the book on: www.cillianpress.co.uk www.chriskeil.eu
Flirting at the Funeral – an extract
The city resisted his memories of it. Wheeling sea-gulls, their gullets full of fish, swung in from the estuary to feed their squalling chicks on warehouse roofs around the docks. Morgan stood near the water’s edge in Praça do Comércio looking out across the Tagus, watching the commuter ferries pushing back and forth across the river from the suburbs and …