Thu 05 Sept
|Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
BOOK LAUNCH: My Battle of Hastings - Xiaolu Guo
'My Battle of Hastings' is an exploration of how an immigrant, an outsider and a woman can embrace local and national history.
Time & Location
05 Sept 2024, 18:00
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, John's Place, Bohemia Rd, Hastings TN34 1ET, UK
About The Event
Hastings Book Festival is delighted to be co-hosting this event with the fabulous Hastings Book Shop.
Xiaolu Guo will be in conversation with fellow author Catherine Johnson about her new book My Battle of Hastings.
In winter 2021, Xiaolu Guo moved into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront, a room of her own where she could spend time writing away from her domestic duties as a mother and wife in London. As Russia invaded Ukraine, she immersed herself in the English landscape and its past, especially the violence between Normans and Saxons.
My Battle of Hastings is a chronicle of Xiaolu’s life in Hastings and a portrait of a dislocated artist seeking to connect with her local environment in the hope of finding a deeper connection to her adoptive nation. Filled with profound, beautiful and wry reflections on war, history, migration and belonging, Xiaolu’s journey into the past…