Belfast Book Festival 2016 | Page 59

Caroline Barry The Dolocher
Hyeonseo Lee

Caroline Barry The Dolocher

With Wendy Austin
Crescent Arts Centre Tuesday 14 June – 1.15pm Tickets : £ 7 ( inc . Light Lunch ) / £ 5 ( Event only )

Hyeonseo Lee

The Girl With Seven Names
Crescent Arts Centre Tuesday14 June – 5.30pm Tickets : £ 8 /£ 6
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Victorian London had Jack the Ripper . Georgian Dublin had the Dolocher ...
The Dolocher is stalking the alleyways of Dublin . Half man , half pig , this terrifying creature has unleashed panic on the streets . Can it really be the evil spirit of a murderer who has cheated the hangman ’ s noose by taking his own life in his prison cell , depriving the mob of their rightful revenge ? Or is there some other strange supernatural explanation ?
This terror has come at the perfect time for down-at-heel writer Solomon Fish . With his new broadsheet reporting ever more gruesome stories of the mysterious Dolocher , sales are growing daily and fuelling the city ’ s fear . But when the Dolocher starts killing and Solomon himself is set upon , he realises that there ’ s more to the story than he could ever have imagined .
With the help of his fearless landlady , Solomon goes after the Dolocher , torn between reason and superstition .
The Dolocher is Caroline Barry ’ s first foray into adult fiction , inspired by a little known Dublin ghost story .
Hyeonseo Lee is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who now lives in South Korea .
As a teenager she escaped from North Korea and later guided her family to freedom through China and Laos . She has recently completed writing her memoir , The Girl With Seven Names ( 2015 ). Over 5 million people have viewed her TED Talk about her life in North Korea , her escape to China and struggle to bring her family to freedom .
Hyeonseo has given testimony about North Korean human rights in front of a special panel of the UN Security Council . She spends much of her time travelling across the globe and speaking out for North Korean human rights and refugee issues . She has also written articles for the New York Times , Wall Street Journal and the London School of Economics Big Ideas blog and has been interviewed by the BBC , CNN , and CBS News .