Book Club Event with Author Wendy Erskine | Discussing The Benefactors
£16.00
In person book club event.
Thursday 25 June 2026, 11.00am – 12.00pm
Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, CO1 1NF
Travel and Parking:
Directions at https://colchesterartscentre.com/getting-here/
Address: Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1NF
There is no parking at the venue. The nearest public car park is St Mary’s on Balkerne Hill.
Refreshments: The bar at the venue will not be open at this time. We will be providing water, juice and biscuits or please bring a drink with you. The Mercury Theatre Café/Bar is just next door and is open from 10am.
Timings:
10.30am Doors
11.00am Event: Wendy Erskine – includes audience Q&A
12.00pm Wendy Erskine book-signing
Spoilers: As this is a Book Club event there is an assumption that the audience has read the book and this event may include spoilers for the book.
Books: Wendy Erskine’s book will be available to buy from Red Lion Books at the event and there will be an opportunity to get books signed by the author.
Accessibility: For details of accessibility at the venue visit: https://colchesterartscentre.com/accessibility/
Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements.
Photography: Essex Book Festival will be taking photos at this event. If you do not wish to be photographed, please let a member of the Essex Book Festival team know when you arrive.
Book Club / Author event with Wendy Erskine discussing THE BENEFACTORS
Individual readers and Book Club groups are invited to hear Author Wendy Erskine speak about her book The Benefactors. In conversation with Red Lion Book in collaboration with Essex Book Festival this event encourages questions from the audience. The Benefactors was an Observer Best Debut Novel 2025, longlisted for The Gordon Burn Prize and 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
The Benefactors is brutal, tender, and rigorously intelligent, The Benefactors is a daring, multi-voice presentation of modern-day Northern Ireland.
The event ticket is £16 which includes the book
This event is held offsite at a wheelchair accessible COLCHESTER ARTS CENTRE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION
AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL 2025
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE
What a beautiful, hilarious blast of brilliance (Donal Ryan, author of Heart, Be at Peace)
Meet Frankie, Miriam and Bronagh: three very different women from Belfast, but all mothers to eighteen-year-old boys. Gorgeous Frankie, now married to a wealthy, older man, grew up in care. Miriam has recently lost her beloved husband Kahlil in ambiguous circumstances.
Bronagh, the CEO of a children’s services charity, loves celebrity and prestige. When their sons are accused of sexually assaulting a friend, Misty Johnston, they’ll come together to protect their children, leveraging all the powers they possess. But on her side, Misty has the formidable matriarch, Nan D, and her father, taxi-driver Boogie: an alliance not so easily dismissed.
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