A dinner party with a difference, Dialect Dinners offers up three online courses of rural and edgeland discussion with a hand picked guest author - an entirely virtual (and accessible!) feast for heart and mind.
Our guest for December is the author Sarah Brooks.
Sarah works in East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. She also helps run the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing. She has a PhD on monsters in classical Chinese ghost stories, and she is also co-editor of Samovar, a bilingual online magazine for translated speculative fiction.
Sarah won the Lucy Cavendish Prize, and a Northern Debut Award from New Writing North for her novel ‘The Cautious Traveller’s Guide To The Wastelands’. The story of a group of late nineteenth century passengers on a grand express train travelling across a dangerous and magical landscape, it was published in June 2024 and has since become a Sunday Times Bestseller.
“Strange, addictive, immersive, it's a steampunk Piranesi meets His Dark Materials.”
JENNIE GODFREY
“Mysterious and clever and brilliant”
NATASHA PULLEY
Sarah will be bringing along her three imaginary courses for us to share, and through our Q&A sessions we’ll have an informal discussion about her writing life and creative practice.