We're very excited to be doing something a bit different this week at White Heat: We've teamed up with FOYLES for our first literary event: a reading by and Q&A with Chuck Palahniuk on his new novel DOOMED.

Doors are 7pm, it'll be seated &the bar will be open!

CHUCK PALAHNIUK has made a running total of seventy-seven people faint at his readings. When he isn’t inducing fits in his fans, he sends them gifts boxes, in which they are lucky enough to find a letter, a stuffed toy, some plastic vomit or severed fingers (fake).

Before becoming a bestselling author, he was a movie projectionist, a dishwasher, a mechanic, a journalist and a volunteer at a homeless shelter.

His twelve novels, which he calls ‘contemporary romances’, include Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Lullaby, Diary, Survivor and Invisible Monsters. Three have been adapted into films: Fight Club by David Fincher; Choke starring Anjelica Huston and Sam Rockwell; and the short film Romance, released in early 2013. A musical adaptation of Fight Club by David Fincher is in the pipeline, and film adaptations of Snuff and Invisible Monsters are scheduled for release in 2014.

Palahniuk is currently working on a graphic novel sequel to Fight Club. He lives in Portland, Oregon.