Kit Fan in Conversation | New Writing North Book Club

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The New Writing North Book Club welcomes Kit Fan to discuss our fifth read of the year: Diamond Hill.

Join us for our latest Book Club event!We'll be hosting writer Kit Fan to talk about his novel Diamond Hill. Readers will have a chance to hear about the thinking behind the book, the process of writing it, and have the opportunity to ask Kit Fan any questions they may have. Kit will be in conversation with New Writing North's Senior Programme Manager Rebecca Wilkie. This event will be held online via Zoom Webinar. Tickets are £5 (plus booking fee), or free to members of the <a href="https://newwritingnorth.com/event/book-club/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">New Writing North Book Club</a>.New Writing North Book Club is presented to you in partnership with <a href="https://www.forumbooksshop.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Bound</a> in Whitley Bay. About the Book:1﻿987 Hong Kong. Trying to outrun his demons, a young man who calls himself Buddha returns to the bustling place of his birth. He moves into a small Buddhist nunnery in the crumbling neighbourhood of Diamond Hill, where planes landing at the nearby airport fly so close overhead that travellers can see into the rooms of those below.As Buddha begins to care for the nuns and their neighbours, this pocket of the old city is vanishing. Even the fiery Iron Nun cannot prevent the frequent landslides that threaten the nunnery she fights for, and in the nearby shanty town, a faded film actress who calls herself Audrey Hepburn is hiding a deep secret and trying to survive with her teenage daughter who has a bigger fish to fry.But no one arrives in Diamond Hill by accident, and Buddha’s ties to this place run deeper than he is willing to admit. Can he make peace with his past and survive in this disappearing city?About the Author:Kit Fan is a novelist, poet and critic. He was born in Hong Kong and moved to the UK at the age of 21. His second poetry collection, As Slow As Possible was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and one of the Irish Times Books of the Year. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and a winner of the Northern Writers Award, Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, inaugural HKU International Poetry Prize and POETRY’s Editors Prize for Reviewing. Diamond Hill is his debut novel.

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