Cahokia Jazz

In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detective find a body on the roof of  a skyscraper. It’s 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on – a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week that will spill the city’s secrets, and, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, bring it either to destruction or rebirth.

 

The best-selling author of Golden Hill discusses his new and brilliant novel with Mark Oakley.

15:00 Saturday 1 March 2025
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Speakers

Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford is the author of Unapologetic, shortlisted for the Michael Ramsey Prize, and the literary bestseller Golden Hill.

His most recent book is Cahokia Jazz. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is married to the soon-to-be Dean of Chelmsford.

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Carys Davies
Papagena
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Jem Bloomfield
Hetta Howes
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