The Hotel with Daisy Johnson
Wed 30 Oct 2024
7:00pm at Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, 14-15 John St, Bath. BA1 2JL
Book + Ticket gives you a free ticket with a copy of the book, all tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, a glass of wine or soft drink, 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 excited to welcome the incredible Daisy Johnson to Mr B’s for her new book, The Hotel, an astounding collection of stories that will haunt you long after you turn the final page.
Daisy was the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2018, with Everything Under (which found an immediate home on our Emma’s favourites shelf). She is also the author of the highly praised short story collection Fen, and her most recent novel, Sisters, which we’ve not been able to stop handselling since.
We can’t wait to welcome Daisy to the shop for the first time, and we hope you’ll join us for this special, and suitably eerie Halloween Eve event!
About the book:
A place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations –yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore. On entering The Hotel, different people react in different ways.
To some it is familiar, to others a stranger. Many come out refreshed, longing to return. But a few are changed forever, haunted by their time there.
And almost all those affected are women… They are children and mothers, monsters, cult film-makers, thrill-seekers and workers on the night shift, all with their own tales of its strange power, of the horrors of Room 63, and of desperate but failed attempts to escape its seductive pull.
Daisy Johnson is one of the best writers in this country — Max Porter
To read Daisy Johnson is to have that rare feeling of meeting an author you’ll read for the rest of your life — Evie Wyld
Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction — Lauren Groff