Patrick Gale, the author of Rough Music and Notes from an Exhibition talks about his new personal Edwardian novel based on a true story in his own family history. From Cornwall to Canada, A Place Called Winter is a searching and poignant story of love, relationships, secrets and escape. The event will be in Hall Two at Kings Place, tickets 9.50. A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence - until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything. Forced to abandon his wife and child, Harry signs up for emigration to the newly colonized Canadian prairies. Remote and unforgiving, his allotted homestead in a place called Winter is a world away from the golden suburbs of turn-of-the-century Edwardian England. And yet it is here, isolated in a seemingly harsh landscape, under the threat of war, madness and an evil man of undeniable magnetism that the fight for survival will reveal in Harry an inner strength and capacity for love beyond anything he has ever known before. In this exquisite journey of self-discovery, loosely based on a real life family mystery, Patrick Gale has created an epic, intimate human drama, both brutal and breath-taking. It is a novel of secrets, sexuality and, ultimately, of great love. A Place Called Winter is published on March 26th. Pre-orders and signed copy reservations from those not attending the event can be arranged by emailing us sales@gaystheword.co.uk Zeb Soanes is a familiar voice across BBC Network Television and Radio. He is a Radio 4 Newsreader and regularly puts the nation to bed with the Shipping Forecast; he read the forecast at the Olympics to a worldwide audience of over a billion. On Television his voice launched BBC FOUR; he is a regular presenter of the BBC Proms and live classical music events.

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