Have A Host, Ellis Collins with Octopuses and me at the Blue Notes, Still Frames launch.

It was a great night, last Thursday, when my new Brighton novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames (Ward Wood Publishing) was launched at Have A Word in Brighton’s smart Latest Music Bar. I was reading from the novel along with friends and fellow Sussex novelists, Vg Lee  and Allie Roberts. The evening ended with a terrific set from my son, Adam Bell’s Brighton based band, Octopuses. It wasn’t just me who thought it was a great night – that was the general consensus too.

I was reading from my new Brighton novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames.

I think it must’ve been a world first for a novel to be launched by the novelist and the novelist’s son’s rock band – if this is a precedent, I recommend it highly.

It was appropriate for a number of reasons; my novels and the band are based in Brighton and the book has an important music theme – thus the blue notes. The main character, Joe Edevane, is a flautist busker and Octopuses have a flautist in their line-up.  So the  event was full of shared themes and interests. Octopuses played from their current album, Yes Please, and they brought the evening to a rousing conclusion.

Here’s one of their latest videos – take a look:

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After my incarceration at home with a lung infection, I’m wrapping up against the weather and getting a taxi to Brighton’s Latest Music Bar for this evening’s Have A Word, Brighton’s rather smart literary review where I shall be reading from my new novel Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love, my Brighton-based novel set in 1967.

If you can get there, it would be great to see you. I’m also going to read some of my poetry but don’t let that put you off. I shall have some copies of the novel with me if you would like a signed copy. My fellow Ward Wood writer, V.G. Lee is on the bill too so, even if you don’t want to see me, she is a very good reason for coming along.

My novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love, was published  on 31 October 2013. It is the story of a young fogey living in Brighton in 1967 who has a lot to learn when the flowering hippie counter culture changes him and the world around him.

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