This Bard Summer, come while away a balmy evening with author Glen James Brown as he discusses his rambunctious latest novel Mother Naked, a medieval minstrel's tale of class, religion, art and ale... 

7:00pm-9:00pm Fort Road Bar, Fort Road Hotel 

Durham Cathedral, 1434. As the Black Death reigns and the Peasants’ Revolt rages, a weathered-looking minstrel arrives to entertain the city’s wealthiest men with a ghost story, one that slices closer to reality than his privileged audience could ever have imagined...  
 
A tale of anti-feudal fury told from the fringes, Manchester-based writer Glen James Brown's second novel, Mother Naked, is inspired by a single listing in the rolls at Durham Cathedral for the lowest-paid performer since records began. He'll be talking about the book in conversation with Ryan J Smith. Mother Naked is also this month’s Bookshop Bookclub pick so you can both discuss the book with fellow readers and the following week put your questions to the author!