July 2023 – Coles Book Club
NEW DATE
Wednesday 19th July 2023 @ 7pm
Ben Tufnell – “The North Shore”
The Coles Book Club – an opportunity to read the book and then join us to meet the author Ben Tufnell for an evening of chat and, of course, a glass of wine, at Coles with your fellow readers. The book you buy from Coles becomes your ticket for the evening – click on the book cover below to buy your book online and we’ll post it to you, or call in at the Shop and pick up a copy.
You don’t pass through the North Shore on the way to anywhere else: it is the end of the road. The village was like many along that wild coast; inhabited by those who had always lived there, and always would.
The residents know nature’s tempestuous ways. They batten down the hatches when the storms rip through, and they clear the debris together in the aftermath.
But the morning after one particularly ferocious storm, something is washed up on the beach that has never appeared before. Something that opens the question of what nature, and the North Shore, are truly capable of.
The North Shore is both a powerful story of transformation and a coming-of-age tale. It speaks of the mysteries that lie between the land and the water and the ways in which we use myths and folklore to understand the strangeness of the world.
About the Author: Ben Tufnell is a writer and curator based in London. Previously a curator at Tate, he is a founding Director of Parafin, an independent art gallery. He has published widely on modern and contemporary art, focussing particularly on artists and art forms that engage with ideas of land, landscape and place. The North Shore, which draws speculatively on a childhood in rural North Norfolk, is his debut novel.
