Jeff VanderMeer in Conversation with Julia Armfield

The author of the Southern Reach Trilogy comes to Foyles for the UK launch ofAbsolution,thesurprise fourth volume inhisblockbuster series.

Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer returns to Area X tounravelthe mysteries that remain about the Forgotten Coast, one oftwenty-first-century literature’s most strange and entrancingsettings.Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, Absolution is the provocative and surprising final word in a remarkable story.

Jeff VanderMeer’s New York Times–bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy has been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. The first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. His other books include Hummingbird Salamander, Dead Astronauts, Borne (in development as a TV series at AMC), and The Strange Bird. VanderMeer has lectured at MIT, Yale, Vanderbilt, and Columbia. Most recently, he gave the John Hersey Memorial Address at the Key West Literary Seminar. His Florida reporting has appeared in Current Affairs, TIME, the Nation, and Esquire. He lives in Tallahassee.

VanderMeer will be in conversation with Julia Armfield. Armfield's work has been published inGranta,The White Review and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. She is the author ofsalt slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea, won the Polari Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022. Her much-anticipated second novel, Private Rites, wasreleased this year.

The event will be followed by a book signing. Doors will open from 6:45pm.

Image Credits: VanderMeer by Ditte Valente and Armfield by Avery Curran

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