Pre-publication event on Tuesday 22nd September 2026 will include a hardback edition of DOOM PAINTING, a hearty bowl of soup and a talk with AK BLAKEMORE

 

DOORS OPEN: 6:45PM

SOUP SERVED: 7PM

TALK WITH AK BLAKEMORE: 7:30PM

PLEASE STATE IF YOU HAVE ANY ALLERGENS/INTOLERANCES/DIETARY REQUIREMENTS IN THE NOTES SECTION WHEN CHECKING OUT.

 

 

Limited spaces at a wheelchair accessible venue

Signed by AK Blakemore, Sprayed edge , Indie Exclusive editions will be posted on publication date

 

LIMITED SPACES

DOOM PAINTING:

It is 1381. England, reeling from plague and years of conflict abroad, is a tinderbox waiting to spark. Two childhood friends ride into the town of Brentwood, Essex, where they come upon an altercation with a local Justice bent on squeezing more coin from the masses. Thus begins a rebellion of the common folk – loyal to the king, but not to those wealthy landowners who curtail their freedoms; the multitude finding cause against the powers that threaten their livelihoods.

 

Set over sixteen days, Doom Painting roves across England as the revolt grows and swells and the rebels march to London to take their demands to the child-king Richard II. Out of the rebellion emerges its enigmatic and charismatic leader Wat Tyler, an opportunistic and mercurial rogue whose morality is birthed by the cause, and who shapes an identity for the English which has never been lost.

 

A. K. Blakemore’s thrilling retelling of the Peasants’ Revolt renders it a definitive moment in British history. In the meeting of peasantry and nobility, new versions of England are born, and – for one bloody summer – the people of England seize control