Meet acclaimed Manchester based author Glen James Brown, who will be reading from his latest book, Mother Naked (Peninsula 2024), as well as be in conversation. Glen James Brown’s first novel Ironopolis, about the demise of Teesside social housing and its impact on memory, identity, and folklore was published in 2018 by Parthian Books. Hailed by The Guardian as ‘nothing short of a triumph,’ Ironopolis was shortlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, as well as the 2020 Portico Prize.

His second novel, Mother Naked, was published in June 2024 with Peninsula Press, ‘a dazzling work of speculative fiction’ (Irish Times) set in 15th century England, written in the playful, medieval idiom of a single performance delivered by a ‘high-spirited’ storyteller at Durham Cathedral. At its heart lies a scathing critique of the power structures and rampant inequalities of the times, which all too easily transcend their historical context. Making it ‘absolutely’, as Preti Taneja says, ‘a novel for our times’.

Jot Pop-up bookshop will be open.