Swanage Literary Festival – Steve Couch & Olly Hopper-Pay: Imagining Imogen Imagine’

A unique combination of fiction and music inspired by Steve’s latest book.

Steve Couch lives in Bournemouth with his family. He has been employed as a youth worker, a writer and editor, a youth football coach, and as a club coach for Man v Fat Football. Career highlights include being paid variously for the following: watching films, playing computer games, going to church, telling lies about the national sport of Denmark, and jumping around in a skip.

Steve’s first novel, Dead Man Singing, was published in September 2023 and his second, Foul and Fair, followed in July 2024. His third, Imogen Imagine, will be published in September 2026.

Steve has worked with Olly Hopper-Pay, who is an experienced multi-instrumentalist Based in Christchurch, Dorset, to perform musically enhanced readings from his novels.

Olly’s music has featured in TV and Radio worldwide and he has been a fixture of the local music scene for decades whether in rock and roll band `Clams’, country covers band `Country Tones` or his own indie folk group the `OHP Band`.