THAT BEAUTIFUL ATLANTIC WALTZ - An Evening with Malachy Tallack

We're deligted to be welcoming Malachy Talalck to Manchester for the launch of his new book THAT BEAUTIFUL ATLANTIC WALTZ - a quiet and deeply moving novel about the power of music, home, community and the ocean. Malachy will be in conversation with Conor Wright and also playing some songs - written by his protagonist – which appear as handwritten lyrics throughout the novel.

Doors: 6.30, starts: 6.45

Tickets start from £4.00. THAT BEAUTIFUL ATLANTIC WALTZ will also be available to purchase on the night and Malachy will be signing copies after the talk. If you would like a signed copy but cannot make the event, please contact us on or [email protected] and we can arrange this for you.

About the book:

1957. Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic, reckoning with the most vicious storms he has ever seen. It's a brutal way to make a living. When he finally returns to his Shetland home to build a life with his wife and young son, the legacy of his time at sea is felt by all of them.

In present day Shetland, Jack is an old man, living alone in the cottage where he grew up, in the shadow of a hill. And it is here, one evening, that something appears on his doorstep. Something that throws off the rhythm of his solitary existence in the most profound way.

This is a story of unlikely friendship, longing, the power of music and the pull of home. It is about a life revisited - and reimagined.

About the author:

Malachy Tallack is one of the most exciting and critically acclaimed writers to emerge from Scotland in the past decade, and has won praise from Robert Macfarlane, Bernard MacLaverty, Sara Baume, Madeleine Bunting, Will Self and John Burnside, among others. He was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award for 60 Degrees North; The Un-Discovered Islands was named Illustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2016; and The Valley at the Centre of the World was shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize and longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.

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