Book talk in which author Rukky Brume talks about her debut novel 'It Comes in Waves' with writer and editor Tope Owolabi.
Rukky Brume is in conversation with writer and editor Tope Owolabi at Owl Bookshop on Thursday 29 October, starting at 6:30pm. Brume is talking about her debut novel, It Comes in Waves, which is out now.
Brume grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and studied Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science while working as a finance lawyer. She's an alumna of the Faber Academy's flagship writing course and was longlisted in 2021 in the Discoveries category of the Women's Prize Trust's inaugural Discoveries Programme. It Comes in Waves is her first novel.
Her interlocutor for the evening is Tope Owolabi, a writer and editor who has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, the Guardian/4th Estate Prize, the V.S. Pritchett Prize and the Writivism Prize. In 2023, Owolabi founded The Oluwanifise Foundation, a social impact organisation working to close the literacy and nutrition gap in underserved communities across Nigeria.
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Tickets are £7.00 through £20.49, and the talk starts at 6:30pm at Owl Bookshop.
