FOLK LONDON LAUNCH

Join us to celebrate the launch of FOLK, the prize-nominated debut novel by Stef Macbeth. Author Emma Warren (Dance Your Way Home, Faber) will be in conversation with Stef about this powerful story of youth, community, and what happens when the places we call home disappear.

Emma Warren is one of the UK’s leading writers on youth culture and club culture. Her research explores how music and youth organisations shape identity and belonging, and her forthcoming book on youth clubs will be published by Faber & Faber. She brings unique insight to FOLK’s exploration of 1990s Britain, when youth culture found both freedom and fallout.

FOLK captures the moment when a youth group becomes home for Mark and his friends – until Jason arrives and everything fractures. Set against the backdrop of the Criminal Justice Act and underground music culture, it’s a story about belonging, loyalty, and finding your path when everything you thought you knew falls apart.

The launch takes place as part of photographer Yushy’s exhibition for Section 63: Underground & Unmasted – Documenting Underground London Raves, creating a powerful dialogue between FOLK’s historical fiction and contemporary documentation of underground culture.