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Laura Jean McKay
Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe,…
DiscoverLaura Jean McKay at Waterstones Trafalgar Square
Join us to welcome an international panel of not one, not two, but THREE Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning authors - to talk sci-fi, cli-fi, and why genre fiction matters!
Celebrating the release of her new short story collection, Gunflower, 2021 awardee Laura Jean McKay joins this year's winner Ned Beauman in conversation with fan favourite Lauren Beukes, for what promises to be an evening of frank, funny and insightful writerly musings.
For more information and to book your ticket, please visit the event website here.
Gunflower
A Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2023
The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award—winning author of The Animals in That Country.
A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship ploughs through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men.
With her trademark humour, energy, and flair, McKay offers glimpses of places where dreams subsume reality, where childhood restarts, where humans embrace their animal selves and animals talk like humans.
The stories in Gunflower explode and…
