Set in Eighteenth Century Bohemia, ‘At Dawn, Two Nightingales’ is a comic opera in novel form, part quest, part pantomime and part ghost story, the story revolving around a search for the most dangerous poem in the world, its haunted verses said to be invested with mysterious, supernatural powers. Lovers, criminals, censors and bandits are in hot pursuit of its enchanted verses: but is anything about the poem really as it seems?

About the author…
Alan Bilton is the author of three other novels, ‘The Sleepwalkers’ Ball’, ‘The Known and Unknown Sea’, and ‘The End of The Yellow House’, as well as a collection of surreal short stories, ‘Anywhere Out of the World’. He has also written books on silent film comedy, America in the 1920s and contemporary fiction, and teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Swansea University.