An evening with the writer of the forthcoming "Walking the Invisible"
Join us from 7.30pm GMT on Thursday 27 May as we welcome Michael Stewart, author of
Ill Will and the forthcoming
Walking the Invisible, for an evening of online conversation.
In this zoom event, Michael will talk to our host Helen Meller about the his enduring fascination with the Brontës, tracing it through the writing of
Ill Will (2018), which reimagines the events which may have taken place during Heathcliff's "missing years"; through to his spearheading of the Brontë Stones project, which carved new work by creatives including Kate Bush and Jackie Kay onto stones placed within the moorland landscape; to his most recent project,
Walking the Invisible, which explores the landscapes and geography that so inspired Haworth's most famous family.
Ticketholders for this event will receive a 10% discount on a signed copy of Walking the Invisible when pre-ordering the book from the Brontë Parsonage Museum online shop. See below for terms and conditions.
Michael Stewart’s debut novel,
King Crow, was published in January 2011 by Bluemoose Books. It is the winner of the Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award and has been selected as a recommended read for World Book Night. Other books include
Couples (poetry);
Café Assassin (novel) and a short story collection,
Mr Jolly. His latest novel,
Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff, is published by HarperCollins in hardback and paperback and optioned by Kudos Films.
Walking the Invisible, a hybrid memoir about the Brontës’ lives and landscapes, will be published by HarperCollins in June 2021. He is also the creator of the Brontë Stones project, four monumental stones situated in the landscape between the birthplace and the parsonage, inscribed with poems by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeannette Winterson and Jackie Kay. He is the winner of the H.E. Bates Short Story prize, has written for TV, stage and radio, is the winner of the BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award, and the BBC Short Range film competition. His BBC Radio 4 drama
Excluded was shortlisted for the Imison Award.