Will Eaves

Will Eaves first book of poems explores several continents, moods and stages of life. Common experience - of growing up, growing older, losing a parent, being in love, enjoying the natural world in all its nearness and remoteness - provides his themes. Wherever they are set, in the Australian bush or in a West Country sickroom, the poems keep faith with the consolations that come from close observation and stillness. Well-loved authors and books appear suddenly; hair-raising anecdotes and football matches become occasions for elegiac comedy; music and domestic ritual raise ghosts. Both formal and informal, funny and sad, these lyrical poems seek out a strangeness in the everyday: in the transformational territory of childhood and the equally uncertain adult world of grief and loss.

A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces A wonderfully sensitive and probing meditation on the writing of words and music Rolf Hind composer and pianistWhat lies behind the creation of a piece of music Does it spring fully formed from a composer s mind or take shape in the recesses of the brain revealing itself in stages over time Is the creative act deliberate or happenstance An inspired vision or the result of practice Will Eaves author and musician shares his experience of writing eight new piano pieces after many years away from the keyboard Some of the music is found in old notebooks and teenage enthusiasms some of it is caught on the wing a response to the resurgence of the natural world during COVID lockdown None of it is what he is meant to be doing But then not all artistic interests are primary or professional interests Sometimes it s the second string activities the diversions that bring work and life into focus The Point of Distraction is a unique account of music making that embraces Bach film jazz literature neuroscience and the mystery of will power in its search for meaning At its heart is a love of skill an openness to self doubt and a belief that we are all mo

In 1983, an ordinary teenager called Daniel Rathbone fell in love, spurned a friend, and stumbled on the ability to see in the dark. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Daniel is bequeathed a second no less unusual gift - a Victorian writing box, the legacy of his father and the repository of his youthful secrets, and of his current feelings of guilt.When a visit from the once-spurned friend, Carey Schumacher, coincides with the death of a contemporary, Daniels peculiar endowments are enlisted to make lasting sense of lost time and place. From Bath to Brixton, from the 1960s to the 90s, The Oversight follows a trail of thwarted and victorious affections. It is an intently comic tale of vision and delusion; of family, friendship and desertion; and of the divisively cruel need to belong. A multi-layered debut of distinction.Deeply impressive... Eaves simply does not put a foot wrongEvening StandardRemarkable... I was so absorbed in the novel, so admiring of its cleverness and poise... a moving , frequently funny and impressive debutSunday Times Eaves hasnt created a hero who can leap tall buildings, hes created something rarer still: a vivid portrait of a man getting to grips with adulthoodThe Face Subtle wondrous...intelligence and taste...gems of dry humour...a varied and accomplished first novelScotland on Sunday

The Alldens live in a ramshackle house in suburban Bath. Don and Emily have four children: confident Liz, satirical Clive, shy Lotte, and Benjamin, the late arrival. Together they take the usual knocks, go to work, go abroad, go to university, go to pieces. Don and Emily stick it out, their strong marriage tested by experience and frustrated by love for Clive, the ardent boxing fan at odds with himself, their special child. But then ordinary is special, too, as the Alldens will discover thirty years later when Emily falls ill and her children come home to say goodbye. Their unforgettable story is an intimate record of survival that is clear-eyed, funny and deeply moving.

An earthquake strikes at the heart of London, its epicenter a theatre where a lavish production of The Tempest has just opened. Thus the scene is set for Will Eavess gloriously deft tragicomedy of our time. Nothing To Be Afraid Of is both a lament for hope abandoned and innocence betrayed, and an exquisite comic pageant of Shakespearian vitality and compassion: an incidental theatrical history, across the twentieth century, of the art of pretence; of patience, trust and loyalty; of folly in youth and unforgivable old age. Tender, playful and full of beautifully observed descriptions of growing up and growing old . . . with some terrific comic set-pieces the equal of anything in Waugh and Wodehouse. Now thats good writing Daily Telegraph In the case of his novel, Eaves has nothing to be afraid of. This deft, absorbing book more than confirms the promise of The Oversight. Eaves is a master of the dark arts of city fiction. He is to be read, relished and watched very closely Independent Nothing To Be Afraid Of provides several coups de theatre . . . [it] is a tragicomic tale of secrets, a drowned daughter, infidelity and mistaken identity . . . It is so clever, so apt, so right that you have no option but to read the novel with its built-in encore all over again. It seems even better the second time round Sunday Telegraph

A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of six piano pieces. A brief yet elegant excursion into the nature and execution of creativity Clemency Burton-Hill, Financial Times A wonderfully sensitive and probing meditation on the writing of words and music Rolf Hind, composer and pianist What lies behind the creation of a piece of music? Does it spring fully formed from a composers mind, or take shape in the recesses of the brain, revealing itself in stages over time? Is the creative act deliberate or happenstance? An inspired vision or the result of practice? Will Eaves, author and musician, shares his experience of writing eight new piano pieces after many years away from the keyboard. Some of the music is found in old notebooks and teenage enthusiasms, some of it is caught on the wing a response to the resurgence of the natural world during COVID lockdown. None of it is what he is meant to be doing. But then not all artistic interests are primary or professional interests. Sometimes its the second-string activities, the diversions, that bring work and life into focus. The Point of Distraction is a unique account of music-making that embraces Bach, film, jazz, literature, neuroscience and the mystery of will power in its search for meaning. At its heart is a love of skill, an openness to self-doubt, and a belief that we are all more than our declared aims.

¿Qué sucedería si nos metiéramos en la mente de Alan Turing? Murmullo parte de esta premisa. Como es bien sabido, Alan Turing fue matemático, lógico, informático, criptógrafo, filósofo y corredor de ultradistancia britanico. Considerado uno de los padres de la ciencia de la computacion, fue sometido a un regimen de inyecciones hormonales tras ser declarado culpable de "actos indecentes" con otro hombre y dos años despues murio envenenado, probablemente por si mismo. Murmullo narra este episodio a traves de la figura de Alec Pryor. Esta ambiciosa novela que fue aclamada como un "clasico del futuro" cuando recibio el premio Wellcome. Se ha dicho de ella que es "una mirada extraordinaria sobre la conciencia" y "una meditacion febril sobre el amor, la homofobia y el conocimiento, asi como una exploracion de la sexualidad, la identidad y la inteligencia artificial".

¿Qué sucedería si pudiéramos meternos en la cabeza de Alan Turing? Murmullo parte de esta premisa. A través de la figura ficticia de Alec Pryor –como Turing, matemático, lógico, informático, criptógr