Wednesday, 12 January 2022

Mrs Death Misses Death paperback arrives January 20 2022

 




HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 

I start 2022 with the launch of the beautiful blue paperback edition of Mrs Death Misses Death  - This version is a bit easier on the pocket than the hardback, thanks to all waiting for this edition. Thank you to everyone that has pre-ordered and is waiting so patiently with me for blue books to arrive next week. We have some delicious events and festivals planned and gorgeous radio and podcasts and more all coming up. So excited to see your faces again!!

This intoxicating, life-affirming, fire-starter of a novel publishes in paperback on 20 January 2022 with a brand new look and a stunning lapis-blue design and soft-touch cover. Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Book Prize, nominated for the People’s Book Prize and also included in the Bad Form Books of the Year 2021 and Guardian Best Fiction of 2021


 Belfast Telegraph, January 2022


LOVEREADING EXPERT REVIEW 

OF MRS DEATH MISSES DEATH

A must-read if ever there was one! The story of Wolf and Mrs Death offers the most unique, powerful, and eye-opening view of the circle of life and death. 


Excuse me while I rave about this book, it’s so different, so powerful, so fabulous that I’m experiencing reading elation after finishing it. When Wolf Willeford meets Mrs Death, he becomes her scribe and travels with her to view humanity as it circulates from life to death. A renowned performance poet, this is Salena Godden’s debut novel. In 2018 a BBC Radio 4 documentary was broadcast as it followed the novel as it was written over twelve months. Containing poetry, chants, commentary, recollections, moments in time, and all within the most wonderful story, this is a recognisable yet totally unique take on death. Her words entered my thoughts and made me see, search, examine, they entered my heart and made me feel. Small intimate and intricate moments sit alongside huge stories that are all linked by death. My feelings span from humour to heartbreak, from darkness to light, and all the while the story flows with strength and beauty. There may well be some emotionally difficult paths to explore along the way, and while uncomfortable reading in places this is as much about life, love, and hope as it is death. This is a reading experience I won’t forget and I just had to choose it as one of my Liz Picks of the Month and of course a LoveReading Star Book. Celebrating life and opening up questions on how we view death, Mrs Death Misses Death is a wake-up call of a book that I will be recommending far and wide. LIZ ROBINSON







January's paperback parties


16 Jan – Cunning Folk Book Club 

Liberia, Brick Lane


https://www.cunning-folk.com





20 Jan – Paperback launch day

See you in the pub!






25 Jan - FANE Online


Join me and @FaneProductions on January 25 to celebrate 

the paperback release of #MrsDeathMissesDeath

Excited to announce I’ll be in conversation 

with supreme poet & author Nikita Gill @nktgill

For the unique 'stream and book' package 

please sign up here: fane.co.uk/salena-godden




 

27 Jan – Printed Matter Bookshop, 

St Mary's in the Castle, Hastings


I’m heading home to Hastings

Reading alongside brilliant writer Gareth Rees 

I cannot wait to see the sea and see my friends and family down there...

#Hastings #supportbookshops

 








C O M I N G   U P 


some dates for your 2022 diary  

live, online & hybrid events

festivals & parties

bookshops & libraries

podcasts & radio



 

16 Jan – Cunning Folk Book Club, Liberia, Brick Lane

 

20 Jan – Paperback launch day


25 Jan - FANE online

 

27 Jan – Printed Matter Bookshop, St Mary's, Hastings

 

31 Jan – How To Academy with Yrsa Daley Ward

 

25-27 March – Laugharne Festival, Wales


4 March - Tubthumping, Leeds


6 March - Nutopia, Coventry Cathedral


23 March - Hastings Library


30 March - Wanstead Library

 

31 March –Boozy Book Club 

 

29 April – Byline Festival, London

 

14 June – Crossing The Tees Festival


8-10 July - Also Festival 

 

13 Aug – Big Little Festival





NEW episodes, coming soon, watch this page



Dead Darlings Podcast


Tom Brosseau, The Great American Folk Show


Across the Pond Podcast


Critics Choice Podcast


Little Atoms Podcast


BBC R4 Podcast Radio Hour


Feminist Book Club Paris


You're Gonna Die Podcast


Queer Death Stories 


Roaring 20's Radio Show







Mrs Death Misses Death available now
Hardback | Paperback | Ebook  
Audiobook – read by the author



Waterstones


WHSmiths


Pages of Hackney 


Newham Bookshop


Audible 


Find MDMD in indie bookshops via www.bookshop.org












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