Chelsea Pensioner Veterans Outreach - Event Signup

Next Event: Talk & Book Signing - Justin Kerr-Smiley

Veterans from the Tri-Services and the Merchant Navy in receipt of a state pension are invited to join us for a Talk & Book Signing  from Justin Kerr-Smiley, author of Under the Sun and upcoming novel A Leap in the Dark.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 10:30 - 12:00

Justin was born in 1965 and raised in Scotland. He was educated at Newcastle University. Awarded a BBC bursary for post graduate studies in journalism, he worked as a radio reporter in Sydney and London. He then joined the Associated Press and reported from Northern Ireland, the Balkans, South America and the West Bank

UNDER THE SUN was first published in 2007. The novel is set in the South Pacific during the closing stages of World War II. It is the story of the relationship between an RAF pilot who is shot down and taken prisoner, and the Japanese officer in charge of him. The Sunday Telegraph described it as "a small masterpiece; the best novel that I have read about war since Captain Corelli's Mandolin." Under The Sun is published by Arcadia Books.

Justin’s just published novel - A LEAP IN THE DARK - the year is 1798. David Stoddart is a town councillor by day and a felon by night. After dark he wears a thief’s garb and prowls the streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town. But whatever the councillor steals he gambles away. He is addicted to the criminal underworld and while he fights against his passions, he is forever drawn back like a moth to a flame. A Leap In The Dark shows how we are often caught on the horns of a dilemma: between darkness and light, good and evil. As Robert Louis Stevenson said: ‘Man is not truly one, but truly two.’

SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE AT THE EVENT

Simply register for the event by completing the form below, contacting VeteransOutreach@chelsea-pensioners.org.uk, or leave a message on 020 7881 5390.

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