To celebrate the release of FALSE VALUE, the highly-anticipated eighth Peter Grant novel, Ben Aaronovitch is embarking on an extensive book tour in the UK!
First up, though, the book is due to be published in the UK by Gollancz on February 20th. Here’s the synopsis…
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner’s brand new London start up – the Serious Cybernetics Company.
Drawn into the orbit of Old Street’s famous ‘silicon roundabout’, Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with Mama Grant’s favourite son.
Because Terrence Skinner has a secret hidden in the bowels of the SCC. A technology that stretches back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, and forward to the future of artificial intelligence. A secret that is just as magical as it technological – and just as dangerous.
And here are the UK Tour dates…!
February 16th…
- 1pm — Forbidden Planet, London — Signing
- 6pm — Haslemere Bookshop — Talk & Signing
February 17th…
- 6:30pm — Foyles, Charing Cross — Talk & Signing
February 18th…
- 12:30pm — Waterstones, Reading — Signing
- 7pm — Blackwell’s, Oxford — in Conversation with R.F. Kuang & Signing
February 19th…
- 12:30pm — Waterstones, Birmingham — Signing
- 6:30pm — Sheffield Libraries — Signing
February 20th (Official Release Day!)…
- 12:30pm — Waterstones, Leeds — Signing
- 6:30pm — Blackwell’s Manchester — in Conversation with Micah Yongo
February 21st…
- 12:30pm — Imagined Things Bookshop, Harrogate — Signing
- 7pm — Waterstones, Newcastle — in Conversation with Jeanette Ng
February 22nd…
- 1pm — Waterstones, Dundee — Signing
- 6pm — Aberdeen Performing Arts — in Conversation with Stuart MacBride
February 23rd…
- 12pm — Waterstones, Glasgow — Signing
- 4pm — Cymera Festival, Edinburgh — in Conversation with Tendai Huchu
February 24th…
- 7pm — Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge — in Conversation with A.K. Larwood
February 27th…
- 6:30pm — Red Lion Books, Colchester — Signing
February 28th…
- 6:30pm — Daunt Books, Hampstead — Signing
North American fans of the novel will have to wait until the following week (February 25th) to get their hands on the novel, published by DAW Books.
