We are absolutely thrilled and honoured to be welcoming the three time International Booker Prize nominee and highly acclaimed Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin to Stockport for the launch of her new short story collection Good and Evil and Other Stories (tr: Megan McDowell). Samanta will be in conversation with Jodie Matthews (Meet Me at the Surface) and the talk will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

Tickets are £5.00 each or £16.99 including a copy of Good and Evil and Other Stories. Light refreshments are included in the ticket price.

Event starts at 6:30pm (doors at 6pm)

About the book:

The strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story.

A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare: tightly, exquisitely wound, ready to snap at a touch.

Here, a young father is haunted by the consequences of a moment of distraction; tragedy is complicated by the inexplicable appearance of an injured horse; an attempted poisoning leads two writers to startling conclusions; a lonely woman's charity is rewarded with home-invasion. And in the shocking opening story, a mother surfaces from the depths of the lake behind her house, where she saw something awful yet alluring.

Guilt, grief and relationships severed permeate this mesmerizing collection – but so do unspeakable bonds of family, love and longing, each sinister and beautiful. Step by step these unnerving stories lure us into the shadows to confront the monsters of everyday life – ourselves.

'Just stellar - extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled' - Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren

'These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside' - Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon

About the author:

Samanta Schweblin won the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her story collection, Seven Empty Houses. Her debut novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and her novel Little Eyes and story collection Mouthful of Birds have been longlisted for the same prize. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages, and her stories have appeared in English in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's Magazine and elsewhere. Originally from Buenos Aires, Schweblin lives in Berlin. Good and Evil and Other Stories is her third collection.

Jodie Matthews is from Cornwall and lives in Manchester. Her debut novel Meet Me At The Surface was shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award and the Blue Pencil First Novel Award 2021.