Keiran Goddard, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

Join us for this special book club event in collaboration with Appetite Book Club and Red Lion Books.

Bold, ambitious and stylistically striking, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning explores the redeeming and transforming beauty of friendship and examines the true limits of hope and forgiveness.

This event will include an audience Q&A and after the event there will be an opportunity to get your book signed by Keiran.

Thursday 26th June, 11.00am
Venue: Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, CO1 1NF
Tickets: In person: £16 includes paperback copy of book
Box Office: redlionbooks.co.uk

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning by Keiran Goddard

Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025.

Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up together. They played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of everything they’d do with their lives. Now they are thirty, and only Rian has made it out of the estate and moved away to another city, but his money doesn’t stop him clinging to a vision of the past that is quickly slipping away.

Oli is fading by the day, drinking and snorting his way through the endless boredom, while Conor has a baby on the way and a business plan he hopes will change everything. Patrick and Shiv are as in love as ever, but even they are rocked when an old secret opens up new wounds …

Keiran Goddard

Photo of Keiran Goddard credit Tom Goddard

Keiran Goddard is a novelist, poet and social commentator. His debut poetry collection was shortlisted for the Melita Hulme and William Blake prizes, his debut novel Hourglass was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott prize and his latest novel I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning has been published to widespread acclaim and has been nominated for the Gordon Burn Prize.