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The Writer’s Path – following fact and fiction with Tim Parks
7pm GMT Tuesday 25 February How do master storytellers approach the act of walking in their writing? What are the subtle yet important differences between crafting a non-fiction travelogue and weaving walking into a fictional narrative? Our upcoming Walking Writers Salon delves into these questions. Our featured guest, Tim Parks, a writer with over forty
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A series is born! After publishing Ann de Forest‘s collection of essays WAYS OF WALKING that drew worldwide interest, NEW DOOR BOOKS began to think about a series of books with walking as a theme. Then author Janice Deal sent them a wonderful novel, THE BLUE DOOR, in which the protagonist takes a long walk that
• Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia, mercurial professor of literature, mother to two of his pupils, married, and the love of his life.
After years of their secret affair, they stepped out together on top of the world, full of delight in one another and in the future they imagined. Or was it only Dan who imagined it, really? He never had the chance to find out, because a few days into their adventure a single phone call changed everything.
Now, at the height of summer, with only a rucksack, a few pages of DH Lawrence that had been Julia’s, and his private strata of memory and forgetting, Dan is back on the trail. Step by step, with a tumult of emotions jostling with the demands of the dramatic Alpine landscape, he reckons with what his life is and what it might have been, had he been a different man with different choices.
‘A writer operating at the height of his powers. One follows the twists and turns of this story of discovery and self-discovery in a sustained state of delight’ J.M. Coetzee
‘An intensely satisfying novel, superbly crafted’ Nicholas Shakespeare
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