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An evening with … Jon Doyle
May 19 @ 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
£10.00 – £20.00
AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT OF 2026
‘Luminous, intelligent and sincere […] an immaculate debut with dirt under its fingernails’ – Colin Walsh, author of Kala
‘Electric… A wonderful, brilliant piece of work. Just brilliant. This is someone with a voice, with something to say, with a natural talent.’ Kasim Ali, author of Good Intentions
‘Jon Doyle is a great new voice – and an important one. His work is real in the very best sense: exactly observed, often funny and unafraid of the greatest themes’ Tom Bullough, author of Sarn Helen and Addlands
‘A highly original book that strips back the traditional architecture of the novel until each paragraph arrives like a short, beautiful breath, and in the silences between, the true voices of Port Talbot are able to sing through. A thrilling evocation of a community’ Andrew McMillan, author of Pity
About Jon Doyle
Jon Doyle is a writer based in Port Talbot, South Wales. He was part of Literature Wales’ Representing Wales scheme in 2022/23, and won the Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize 2023. He holds a BSc and MRes in Zoology and MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University. His work has appeared in Short Fiction, Hobart, Ploughshares Online, The Rumpus, 3:AM Magazine, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction among other places. Communion is his first novel.
About Communion
Just so we’re clear, she said, I know the rules of confession. What I say cannot be repeated. Not to anyone…
When Mack O’Brien left his home in Port Talbot for the seminary as a teenager, he didn’t imagine he’d be back a decade later, unordained and still at a loss as to what makes for a moral life. He takes a job as a security guard at the local steelworks and begins an uneasy transition into the world he once rejected. When the men of the steelworks organise an unprecedented strike in protest against job cuts, he sees no reason not to go along with it.
The last person Mack expects to see in the local club is Siwan Roderick – the woman who appeared out of the blue at the seminary one day to make a confession and swear him to secrecy. Mack kept his word. But as the day of the strike nears, and as he begins to fully understand what Siwan is planning, Mack is forced to reckon with his loyalty to her and the question of whether an act of violence can ever be justified.
Event Format:
Author talk ‘in conversation’, followed by audience Q&A and book signing.
Tickets:
£10 ticket only
£20 ticket and book
Venue:
The Loft at Bookish is located in our flagship store in Crickhowell, accessed from Silver Lane.
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