Tice Cin – Keeping the House

This event was hosted on Tuesday 21st September.

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We are so excited to present a conversation between Tice Cin and Natasha Brown, the authors of two of this year's most engaging debut novels. We'll celebrate the publication of Tice Cin's Keeping the House by And Other Stories earlier in September. Natasha Brown's own debut novel, Assembly, was published by Hamish Hamilton in June of this year to great critical acclaim. Both authors will join us live from their homes on the night.

Keeping the House by Tice Cin:

Cabbages . . . The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that’s where we put the heroin . . .

There’s a stash of heroin waiting to be imported, and no one seems sure what to do with it . . . But Ayla’s a gardener, and she has a plan.

Offering a fresh and funny take on the machinery of the North London heroin trade, Keeping the House lifts the lid on a covert world thriving just beneath notice: not only in McDonald’s queues and men’s clubs, but in spotless living rooms and whispering kitchens. Spanning three generations, this is the story of the women who keep their family – and their family business – afloat, juggling everything from police surveillance to trickier questions of community, belonging and love.

Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist from north London. A London Writers Award-winner, her work has been published by Extra Teeth and Skin Deep and commissioned by places like Battersea Arts Centre and St Paul’s Cathedral. An alumnus of Barbican Young Poets, she now creates digital art as part of Design Yourself – a collective based at the Barbican Centre – exploring what it means to be human when technology is changing everything. A producer and DJ, she is releasing an EP, Keeping the House, to accompany her debut novel of the same name.

Natasha Brown has spent a decade working in financial services, after studying Maths at Cambridge University. She developed Assembly after receiving a 2019 London Writers Award in the literary fiction category.

When you purchase a copy of Keeping the House or Assembly via the options below, you receive access to watch the event from home. For this event, we have also created a Two Books & Event Bundle for both books with a discount. There is an option to purchase a £3 voucher, which also provides access to the livestream. The voucher can be used on any item in the bookshop and on our website – including the books featured in the event.

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