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Launch Event with Elliot J Harper
January 31 @ 18:30 – 21:00
Join us in the shop to celebrate the publication of New Gillion Street, by Leeds author Elliot Harper. Elliot will be talking about and reading from his latest book, answering questions, and signing copies.
Straight-laced and content with the comforts of his home on politically-neutral Neo-Yuthea, Albert Smith leads a quiet and unremarkable life. His days are filled with sipping tea with his beloved wife and tending to his cherished garden—a picture of tranquillity in an otherwise chaotic universe. Little does he know that destiny has extraordinary plans in store for him.
When Mr. Zand, an agent of extra-terrestrial chaos, launches his mayoral campaign, the once peaceful colony faces uncertain and unsettling times. Striking deaths attributed to mysterious forest creatures, forced arranged marriages, and a looming threat of suppressing secret garden meetings propel the community toward the edge of turmoil. In the face of this encroaching darkness, Albert and his neighbours must band together to resist oppression and fight for their freedom before their world collapses.
Elliot J Harper is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Leeds, England with his wife, Naomi.
His short story, In the Garden, won the Flash Vision 2021 contest in 2021 by The Molotov Cocktail magazine. His short story, Meme, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2021 by Coffin Bell Journal.
He has short stories in print in The Curious Case of the Speaking Telegraph in the Spirit Machine: Tales of Seance Fiction anthology by Air and Nothingness Press, Into the Forest in The Wild Hunt: Stories of the Chase anthology by Air and Nothingness Press, There’s a Dead Bear in the Pool in Black Telephone Issue 1 by Clash Books, Blackout in The Protest Issue of Popshot Quarterly Magazine.
He has various short stories online in Maudlin House, Storgy, Akashic Books Sci-fi Friday, Neon Books, Ghost City Press, Coffin Bell, Five:2:One, Dream Noir, Litro Magazine, Horrified Magazine and Idle Ink.