Book Launch The Edge of Heaven
Julie Janson Crocodile Hotel with Martin Lynch
Book Launch The Edge of Heaven
R . B . Kelly
Crescent Arts Centre Friday 10 June – 6.15-7.15pm Tickets : FREE
Julie Janson Crocodile Hotel with Martin Lynch
Crescent Arts Centre Friday 10 June – 7.30-8.30pm Tickets : £ 6 /£ 4
Liberties Press invites you to the launch of R . B . Kelly ’ s The Edge of Heaven , Winner of the Irish Writers ’ Centre Novel Fair Competition , 2014 .
In the early twenty-second century , the habitable world is shrinking . The answer is Creo : a bi-level city that towers over the dust bowl of western France . It ’ s a melting pot of nations , where the dark streets explode with colour , festas and violence .
But Danae can ’ t stay hidden forever . Three hundred miles away , a dog-walker ’ s gruesome discovery sets in motion a chain of events that will bring disaster . The sins of the past are coming back to haunt the sunless streets …
A native of Belfast , R . B . Kelly has a PhD in Film Theory and published her doctoral thesis , Mark Antony and Popular Culture , with IB Tauris in 2014 . Her articles have appeared in magazines and journals across the world , and her short story , Blumelena , was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2012 .
An epic novel about a young Aboriginal single mother ’ s awakening of identity and compassion in a remote Northern Territory community in 1976 . This land holds a terrible secret of immense proportions .
Jane Reynolds is swept up in a year of wonders , as she negotiates her place between the black and white societies . She begins teaching on a remote cattle property and meets traditional Aboriginal elders who change her life forever .
Julie Janson is an Australian novelist , and playwright of Aboriginal descent from the Buruberongal clan of the Darug Nation of the Hawkesbury River , NSW . Her family are descended from the Aboriginal matriarch .
Julie is an established playwright . Her play Gunjies was nominated for an AWGIE Award and received a Highly Commended Award from the Human Rights Commission . Her play The Crocodile
Hotel was shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights Award and the Griffin Award and was showcased at the Ubud Writers Festival Bali , 2010 . belfastbookfestival . com 11