Join us for another installment of Novel Night, a monthly celebration of all things prose! This month we have something rather special: we’re hosting the launch of Joe Kilgore’s latest novel, A Farmhouse In The Rain (shortlisted for the Writers’ Village International Novel Award). We’ll also have “Book Talk,” in which an intrepid Malvern staff member will introduce you to one of our favorite prose titles and invite questions from the audience. And jazz guitarist Margaret Slovak will get the evening off to a great start with live music.

Also worth noting: we’re offering 20% OFF ALL FICTION TITLES during Novel Night (from 6pm till closing).

A Farmhouse In The Rain is a novel of war and peace, crime and punishment, love and loss, and eventually hope. It’s a sweeping saga of three American soldiers and the women they love before, during, and after World War II.

During the war, the three are given shelter by a French woman. The next morning she is found dead and the trio realize they were the only ones in the house. No one admits guilt yet the event affects them radically and leads to big questions. Who will survive the war? Who will survive the peace? Who will reunite with the love each left behind? And who will be unmasked as the murderer on that fateful night at A Farmhouse In The Rain?

Filled with suspense, sacrifice, and subplots that interlock smoothly, the author’s dark chronicle of lives bound together by fate is a solid addition to the WWII thriller genre. —The US Review 

Joe Kilgore is the author of over twenty short stories and four novels. His short stories have been published in magazines, creative journals, anthologies, and online literary publications. Before turning to fiction, he had a long and successful career with international advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather. In addition to his fiction, Joe writes for Austin advertising firm, Bazzirk, Inc., and also serves as a professional book reviewer. He lives in Lakeway with his wife, Claudia, an accomplished artist.