Cahokia Jazz with Francis Spufford
Thu 05 Oct 2023
7:30pm at Walcot House, 90B Walcot St, Bath BA1 5BG
Book + Ticket gives you a free ticket with a copy of the book, all tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, author interview, Q&A and signing
Other ways to book:
Email books@mrbsemporium.com, call 01225 331155 or pop into the shop at 14-15 John Street, Bath. BA1 2JL.
We couldn’t be more delighted to welcome award-winning novelist, Francis Spufford, to discuss about his incredible new novel Cahokia Jazz.
The Mr B’s booksellers have long been fans of Francis’ novels, including the Costa, Desmond Elliot and Ondaatje Prize winning Golden Hill, and the Booker longlisted Light Perpetual. His new book, Cahokia Jazz – a tale of murder and mystery in an alternate historical America – looks set to dazzle readers once again!
About the Book:
In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It’s 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times.
Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on – a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about.
But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week that will spill the city’s secrets, and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, either to destruction or rebirth.
“Francis Spufford is a literary sorcerer with one of the great imaginations of our time. When a new book lands, I drop everything and start reading. Cahokia Jazz takes us to an America that wasn’t… a wilder, richer, altogether more enchanting America. Bullets and beatings provide the percussion to Spufford’s hothouse jazz noir, while hope and heartbreak do a dizzying, drunken foxtrot together. I can’t remember the last time suspense and spiritual longing were so tightly braided together in a single novel. A masterpiece.” – Joe Hill
“Cahokia Jazz is extraordinary.” – Mick Herron