Tickets:
£5 - Online Admission
£10 - General Admission (One Free Drink)
£25 - Book Purchase + General Admission (One Free Drink)
QP Fringe - Book Talk: Yasmin Khan on 'Edgware Road' with Shyama Perera
Historian and broadcaster Yasmin Cordery Khan will join us at The Hearth alongside BBC journalist Shyama Perera, to discuss her debut novel 'Edgware Road' published by independent press Head of Zeus.
A gripping mixture of mystery, family drama and insights into the immigrant experience, Khan’s expansive debut depicts two generations of a London Pakistani family, and the secrets of an estranged father that keep haunting his daughter years after his death.
'Edgware Road ' discusses themes of national identity, gender and class using Khan's own experiences of growing up in the city and her unique perspective on contemporary London history.
Khan describes her novel as "a love letter to London and about how global forces shape everyday lives."
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QP Fringe is a new book & author talk series launched by the Queen's Park Book Festival, with all events taking place at The Hearth, a women's space in Queen's Park, NW London.
Programme
Cocktail hour @ 6:30-7:30pm
Discussion with the author @ 7:30-8:30 followed by Q&A
Book signing and informal chat with the author and fellow attendees @ 8:30-9:30
Queen's Park Bookshop will be selling copies of the book throughout the evening.
About Queen's Park Book Festival & QP Fringe
Queen's Park Book Festival takes place 17/18 September and has launched QP FRINGE, a new quarterly literary event series which will take place throughout the year at The Hearth.
Launching by popular demand for more literary events in the community, the festival will host this ongoing programme of book launches in partnership with local businesses.
ABOUT YASMIN
Yasmin Cordery Khan is a historian and broadcaster. She is the author of The Great Partition (for which she won the Gladstone Prize for History), and The Raj at War, and has written for the Guardian and the Observer. 'Edgware Road' is her first novel.