You Know The Sun Bothers Me with Ryan Falzon

Join us for a relaxed evening in the bookshop as we welcome Ryan Falzon all the way from Malta to talk about his book You Know the Sun Bothers Me with Publisher Richard Village. Tickets include a glass of wine and Ryan will be signing books after the event.

About the book

Love, lust, adulthood and an ancient Fiat in one long hot Maltese summer

School’s out for summer, and for our unnamed narrator, that means three months away from his physics high school students to tinker with his ancient Fiat 131 and fret about his all-consuming obsession: Sarah, a tempestuous artist he met online. They sleep together, they text obsessively, but as July’s barbecues and boat trips segue into August’s festi, their intimate moments always reset into platonic disappointment, and she increasingly ghosts him in favour of an ever-changing group of new besties.

A sensation on its home island,…