Carys Bray's Blog, page 6

Book at Bedtime

It's really going to happen! A Song for Issy Bradley will be BBC Radio Four's Book at bedtime, beginning on Monday 11th August, for 2 weeks. 

I'm excited to hear it and find out how it has been abridged. 

Sunstone Symposium

My bags are packed and I'm ready to fly home. I've had a lovely time in Utah. I met some really interesting people and listened to some excellent papers and panels at the Sunstone Symposium - the history of excommunication, perspectives on patriarchy and the Ordain Women movement, Mormon food, the problems of heterodoxy - all sorts of fantastic stuff, and I even appeared (very briefly) during

Back Soon

I'm off to America tomorrow, sans family, to speak about A Song for Issy Bradley and Mormon fiction at the Sunstone symposium at the University of Utah with my friend Jenn Ashworth. So long!

Win a copy of the U.S edition

More U.S editions of A Song for Issy Bradley arrived yesterday. I'm giving away one copy - I'll sign it and mail it anywhere in the world. All you need to do to is comment on this post or on the equivalent post on my Facebook page and one name will be drawn out of a hat at the weekend. 









I loved A Song for Issy Bradley. It's wry, smart, human ... it's moving and comforting in a way that

The Verb, RTE and new books

Yesterday I went to Media City to record  The Verb with Ian McMillan. Jackie Kay and DBC Pierre were also on the show, but they were in Inverness and London respectively (so they couldn't sign the books I'd fangirlishly - not sure if that's a word - carried to Manchester with me). However, brilliant folk singer Martin Carthy was in the studio and it was lovely to listen to him perform live. The

Miracle Boy

Here's a video from Word Factory of me reading the first part of Jacob's chapter 'Miracle Boy' from A Song for Issy Bradley.


Carys Bray reads 'Miracle Boy' from WordFactory on Vimeo.

Book at Bedtime

Some lovely news.

A Song for Issy Bradley will be BBC Radio Four's Book at Bedtime for two weeks, beginning 11th August. 






^ That was me being calm and dignified.

For a more authentic depiction of my response, imagine a combination of the following:




          

And breathe

Last weekend I dragged the children and my husband to London and bored the socks off them with a long game of spot-the-tube-poster, followed by a visit to the Tate (the Tate was slightly better received - in part due to the large numbers of naked statues and paintings).





On Saturday evening I read at Word Factory which took place in Piccadilly Waterstones - a gorgeous shop - alongside two

Monocle Radio Podcast

Here's a link to a Monocle Radio Podcast





On this Weekend Edition special, Georgina Godwin meets two talented authors and hears about the redesigned family bookshop that is stocking their work. Nick Harkaway talks about his new book ‘Tigerman’ – all about ex-colonies, superheroes and paternal love. He's followed by Carys Bray, who tells us how it was only after leaving the Mormon faith that

Author interview

Want to know more about A Song for Issy Bradley? Have a listen to this interview.