So, the Flirting at the Funeral UK Rolling Thunder Tour is taking a short break: five gigs in nine days conducted in flat-out rock’n’roll style… London, Carmarthen, Manchester and Llandovery – art galleries, bookshops and pubs (“The motorway system of Britain is beautiful and strange…”). Four, really, as the second Llandovery litfest event unhappened when the Writers’ Tent blew down in a storm. Good reception everywhere, lots of beer, lots of books. In Llandovery I was on a panel with Jasper Rees and Grahame Davies – exalted company. And about ten thousand sheep… None of this would have been possible without my brilliant and dynamic publisher, Mark Brady of Cillian Press
Starting to get some good reviews:
“Flirting at the Funeral is a philosophical novel in the best sense, beautifully written, as if G.M. Hopkins had turned to prose and lived to see the modern age… a very good novel -the product of a formidable and original mind.”
Ben Shephard, author of: A War of Nerves; After Daybreak; The Long Road Home