Armenian Institute... Book Launch

ENTERTAINING STRANGERS  BY JONATHAN TAYLOR...

THURSDAY 22ND JANUARY 2015

7:15 PM...

25 Cheniston Gardens London W8 6TG

(Tube: High Street Kensington

Free admission with wine and nibbles



Author Jonathan Taylor will Be reading from and talking

about his novel, Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 22012).

In particular, he will be reading passages which flash back

to the 1922 Great Fire of Smyrna, which forms the traumatic

pre-history of the novel's main storyline.

These claimactic passages are told from the persepctive of

one Armenian girl, swept up by the historic upheaval around her.


This is Jonathan Taylor's first novel. Previously, he published a memoir, 
'Take Me Home: Parkinson's, My Father, Myself (Granta Books, 2007). 
He is Lecturer in creative Writing at the University of Leicester, and 
co-director of arts organisation and small publisher Crystal Clear Creators. 
He live in Leicestershire with hsi wife, the poet Maria Taylor, and their twin 
daughters, Miranda and Rosalind. His Website is: - 

www.jonathanpltaylor.co.uk