2019 events
ExeLitFest - A Small Dark Quiet
Sunday 10 November 2019, 12.45-1.45pm
Hailed as a “Great Jewish Book” by Jewish Book Week, Gold’s second novel is a story of loss, migration and the search for belonging. Set in London in 1945, A Small Dark Quiet is “challenging and beautifully written”, a story of unresolved grief and intangible loss. Miranda discussed A Small Dark Quiet, her writing inspirations and thought processes, and offered a series of readings.
TCR Presents: Reader as Witness - Panel Discussion
Wednesday 18 September 2019, 6.30-8.30 pm
Miranda Gold joined authors, Sally Bayley and Alice Jolly for an illuminating evening of readings and discussion to explore how fiction and memoir invite us to bear witness. Questioning the false binary that literature serves to either confront or console, they opened up the ways in which consolation might reside in the confrontation.
Event chaired by Suzi Feay.
in conversation with Catherine Taylor
Thursday 6 June 2019, 6:30-8.00 pm
Miranda Gold discussed her haunting novel, A Small Dark Quiet, with writer, critic and former deputy director of English PEN, Catherine Taylor.
Hailed as a ‘Great Jewish Book’ by Jewish Book Week, Gold’s second novel is a story of loss, migration and the search for belonging. Set in London in 1945, A Small Dark Quiet is ‘challenging and beautifully written’, a story of unresolved grief and intangible loss, exploring how trauma, both preverbal and inter-generational, collapses the boundaries between past and present.
Event chaired by Catherine Taylor.
Past Tense, Present Stories: new historical fiction from the female perspective
saturday 23 March 2019, from 10am
Join Stephanie Bretherton (Bone Lines), Miranda Gold (A Small Dark Quiet), Alice Jolly (Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile) and Sarah K Marr (All The Perverse Angels) for talks, readings and signings at Southwark Cathedral.
Authors from innovative publisher Unbound come together to celebrate the unsung roles of women in our human story, from our earliest survival through to 20th century wartime and the present day, and from the pioneering of shamans, suffragettes, students and scientists to the joy and pain of mothers and lovers. Several of the narratives are inspired by, or told in the form of, traditional sources of women’s history: oral storytelling, myth and legend, letters and diaries, arts and crafts.
In Conversation with Miranda Gold and Jessica Duchen
Thursday 24th January 6.30-7:30 pm
Join Jessica Duchen and Miranda Gold for an evening of readings and discussion to explore the idea of the outsider and the search for home in literature.
From the recluse and the lone wanderer to the scapegoat and the stranger in the crowd, the figure of the outsider has been both romanticised and denigrated, idealised and shunned, walking across our pages in a multitude of guises and taking a potent hold over the imagination. What does this simultaneous fear and fascination tell us? How might we find ways of uncovering its historical resonances in contemporary fiction in order to engage with our own cultural moment with greater sensitivity? The paradoxical condition of the outsider can be expressed in subtle, even imperceptible ways too, and alongside the images that loom large are the characters who slip just beyond the periphery of our vision.