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Fiction is special.\u00a0It has the power to entertain, to shock, to thrill, to take us away from the every day into the world of the imagination.<\/p>

We’ve always celebrated fiction in all its wonders and forms at Monty Lit Fest and 2024 is no exception.<\/p>

Here are just three highlights to look forward to.\u00a0<\/p>

Award-winning author Tim Pears<\/strong> is an undoubted master of his craft. His latest book, Run to the Western Shore<\/em>, takes us to Britain in AD 72, where a young Roman slave and the hostaged daughter of a Celtic tribal leader\u2019s daughter flee across the country to the western shore.<\/p>

Tim will be with us on Saturday 8th June at 10.00am<\/a> to tell us why he has chosen Wales to tell a story that immerses us in lost landscapes, ancestries under threat and love at a time of conflict and change.\u00a0<\/p>

Si\u00e2n Hughes<\/strong> grew up in a small village in Cheshire, and every day she used to cycle past an old house that was to become the setting for her extraordinary debut novel,\u00a0Pearl<\/em>.<\/p>

Pearl\u00a0<\/em>tells the story of Marianne, eight years old when her mother goes missing and left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in that ramshackle house on the edge of a small village. She clings to the fragmented memories of her mother\u2019s love and trusts in a medieval poem called\u00a0Pearl<\/em>\u00a0to console her, but remains haunted by an unmarked gravestone in an abandoned chapel and the tidal pull of the river.<\/p>

Meet Si\u00e2n on Sunday 9th June at 11.00am<\/a> as we explore how the medieval poem, Pearl,\u00a0<\/em>and her childhood village became the inspiration for such a wonderful evocation of late 20th-century rural life and the isolation and trauma of loss and grief.\u00a0<\/p>

If crime fiction is more your thing, we’re delighted to announce a last-minute addition to our programme: the chance to hear from top crime and thriller writer, Chris Lloyd<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>

Chris’s writing combines thrilling plotlines, fascinating characters and hugely evocative settings, whether he\u2019s taking us to current-day Catalonia with his police procedural Elisenda Dom\u00e8nech series or immersing us in Nazi-Occupied Paris during World War II with his Eddie Giral thrillers.<\/p>

Hear from Chris on Saturday 8th June at 11.00am<\/a> as he tells us about his writing life, as well as giving us a sneak peak into the upcoming third Eddie Giral book, Banquet of Beggars<\/em>.<\/p>

Tickets are available\u00a0<\/span>online<\/a>, or in person at The Montgomery Bookshop or Ivy House Caf\u00e9 in Montgomery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fiction is special.\u00a0It has the power to entertain, to shock, to thrill, to take us away from the every day into the world of the imagination. We’ve always celebrated fiction in all its wonders and forms at Monty Lit Fest and 2024 is no exception. Here are just three highlights to look forward to. Award-winning …<\/p>\n

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