Readings at Anthology books

Sunday 3rd April, 2:30pm, @ Anthology books, Meeting House Square, Dublin 2

This years readings will be held in Anthology Bookstore in Temple Bar. Readings will be followed by an open mic session, so feel free to come along and join in. Everyone is welcome.

Jenny Roberts

Author Jenny Roberts has written 3 lesbian crime novels. Her 3rd one entitled ‘Dead Reckoning’ is due out in May 2005. Jenny will be reading an extract from this novel. Jenny is coming over from York where she lives and works. She opened and runs ‘Libertas! Women’s Bookshop which she finds both exciting and fun, and claims it has ‘been a privilege to be able to give something to a women’s community that has been so supportive’. She is now a full time writer and loves giving people pleasure through story telling.

Dead Reckoning - Synopsis | The 3rd Cameron McGill Mystery

Cameron McGill, now a Private Investigator, is following yet another seemingly unfaithful husband for a client passed on by her PI friend Beano. But Charles Wilson turns out to be a cross-dresser rather than an adulterer and when he is violently killed outside a sleazy bar in Manchester’s Gay Village, Cameron and the bar’s half-Chinese bartender, Lin Lee, are left to face the police.

Cameron also discovers that that Beano is in prison, falsely charged with the vicious attack on her girlfriend’s ex-husband and that Lin’s wealthy grandfather Mr Lee is a close friend of the murdered Charles Wilson. So when Mr Lee asks her to investigate the killing she sees it as an opportunity to help Beano as well.

As Cameron digs deeper into Beano’s problem and the murder of Charles Wilson her relationship with Lin becomes ever more intimate. But she soon begins to realise that everyone around her seems to have a secret, and the only way to ensure her own survival is to find the answers - fast!

Lucy Burnett

Back to perform more of her poetry after taking part in the open mic poetry slams for the last two years, and making a short cameo appearance at the alaf cabaret, Lucy looks forward to making you laugh, cry, think, wince and be shocked in equal measures......welcome to the world of five year old Jack with no willy, dogs ruling the world, and George “Willo the Wisp” Bush. Thought provoking, funny, and as yet unpublished, could Lucy be the next Roger McGough or Wendy Cope......?!

Based in Edinburgh (and complete with irresistable Scottish accent), Lucy currently works as an environmental activist for Friends of the Earth Scotland, but has recently been accepted onto a creative writing course in the north of England with the aim of focussing more on her writing and performing over the next few years.

What Lucy’s lesbian admirers say about her poetry......

"fresh, fun and fabulous......a witty blend of humour and pure boldness. She’s a pup but you can’t resist her brazen charm."

"thought provoking, humorous and quirky with punchlines akin to the material of a stand up comic....a refreshing departure"

"poetry that’s accessible, concerning tangible subject matter and common experiences"

Rachel Jury

Rachel studied acting at East 15 Acting School, after which she has done a little less acting but a lot more directing and writing. Growing tired of never reaching the end of the rainbow and that elusive pot of gold, she joined the digital revolution and now also works as a CDO for The Poverty Alliance. She escaped the deepest darkest depths of middle England and having tried out London and New York for size currently resides in Glasgow Scotland.

Rachel has been performing her poetry for the past two years at a variety of locations across Britain and Europe from Brighton to Dundee to Dublin.