The Bird Room by Chris Killen - online book tour

The Bird Room

27-year old Chris Killen is already causing a stir with his explosive debut novel The Bird Room. The Bookseller and style bibles Vice and Dazed and Confused have hailed him as a leading new talent for 2009 and there is a huge buzz online due to the popularity of his blog Day of Moustaches, which won an award in 2008.

Chris has recently been appointed a Writing Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Creative Writing department, alongside M. J. Hyland and Martin Amis, and runs a regular literary club night “there’s no point in not being friends with someone if you want to be friends with them.”

Chris will be embarking on an online book tour in support of The Bird Room. Please check back regularly for updates.

Chris is running a draw to win a personalised and signed copy of The Bird Room - the draw closes 21 January 2009.

21 January: Interview with Darran Anderson on Dogmatika
22 January: Interview with Steven Hall on Meet At The Gate
23 January: Interview with Peter Wild on bookmunch (competition ends 28 February 2009)
27 January: Reading at no point in not being friends REAL-LIFE EVENT!
29 January onwards: Book club discussion on Bookgeeks.co.uk (you need to be a member to view the discussion)
29 January: Reading at Book Slam REAL-LIFE EVENT!
30 January: Interview with AAT magazine
31 January: Meet an Author in Second Life at 9pm GMT (repeated on SLCN.tv)
February: Borders UK podcast interview
5 February: Interview with Lee Rourke on 3:AM Magazine

The Bird Room

Published in January 2009

When a boy named Will meets Alice, he can’t believe his luck. She’s smart, sexy and, much to Will’s surprise, in love with him. Alice brings meaning to his urban existence and his McJob. But the course of modern love did never run smooth and soon devotion leads Will to something darker. Elsewhere in the city Helen is an actress. Or she will be one day. For now she finds work as a model. She used to be called Clair, but she wants to be something new and she can be anyone. She’s an actress, remember. A love story with a twist, this explosive debut novel brings Will and Helen’s lives together in a tale as tight as rope and as black as tar. The Bird Room is a candid, funny, intimate portrait of a generation.

About the author

Chris Killen was born in 1981. He currently lives in Manchester. The Bird Room is his first novel.