Cancelled: Alan Bilton; ‘ The End of the Yellow House’

This event has been cancelled: ALAN BILTON; ‘The End of the Yellow House ‘

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

War, Russia, Madness: the themes of Alan Bilton’s dreamlike take on the historical novel can be seen as an uncanny mirror of our own troubled times. Madness has been described as “the Russian disease”, and Bilton explores the theme through Russian literature and history, exploring ideas of “the Holy Fool” and the roots of the Slavic Soul.

The End of The Yellow House is set in Central Russia in 1919, in a sanatorium cut off by the chaos of the Russian civil war. There, the murder of the chief doctor sets in motion a nightmarish series of events involving mysterious experiments, the secret police, the Tsar’s double, an enigmatic ‘visitor’, giant corpses, possessed cats, sorcery, and the overwhelming madness of war, in this fantastical and wildly exuberant historical novel. Combining elements of the ‘whodunnit’, the war novel, and farcical tragicomedy, The End of The Yellow House helps to illuminate the mysteries of Russia’s troubled past.