The Radio 2 Book Club with author Nathan Filer
Simon and the team bring you another great read in the Radio 2 Book Club. Our choice today is The Shock of the Fall by debut novelist and mental health nurse Nathan Filer.
Simon and the team bring you another great read in The Radio 2 Book Club. Our choice today is The Shock Of The Fall by debut novelist and mental health nurse, Nathan Filer, who joins us in the studio to discuss his writing. We'll also hear from our panel of listener reviewers about what they thought of the book.
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Nathan Filer speaks to Simon Mayo
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Book Club - The Shock Of The Fall by Nathan Filer
About The Book
The book is harrowing and heartrending and tells the story of two brothers who are separated, yet united, by a tragic accident.听
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About Nathan
Nathan听is a writer and mental health nurse. He has worked as a researcher in the academic unit of psychiatry at the University of Bristol, and on in-patient psychiatric wards.
His stand-up poetry has been a regular fixture at festivals and spoken-word events across the UK, and has been broadcast on 91热爆 3 television and radio 4, 7 and 5 Live. He is also a 91热爆 Best New Filmmaker and holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University.
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How to get involved
You can听submit questions in advance, by email to simonmayo@bbc.co.ukIf you wish to be considered as one of our reviewers for this year, you can fill in the form on our .
Our next Book Club Choice: This House Is Haunted by John Boyne
This House Is Haunted is set in 1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor.
When she finally arrives, shaken, at the hall she is greeted by the two children in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There are no parents, no adults at all, and no one to represent her mysterious employer. The children offer no
explanation. Later that night in her room, a second terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong. From the moment she rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence which lives within Gaudlin鈥檚 walls. Eliza realises that if she and the children are to survive its violent attentions, she must first uncover the hall鈥檚 long-buried.
John will be joining us on Monday 20th May to discuss the听novel.
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