One of our very talented graphic designers is also promoting this autumn’s best event: The Big Mess Around, in Oxford, UK, on Saturday 18th September. Find out more on Facebook at The Big Mess Around, or get info and tickets from the website shown. Cool night!
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September 4, 2010
The Big Mess Around
September 1, 2010
Molly Parkin at Shoreditch House Literary Salon on 29th September 2010
Molly Parkin, author of the forthcoming Welcome to Mollywood and Queen of Bohemia, will be one of the guests speaking at the fabulous Shoreditch House Literary Salon, populated, as the great Diana Athill pronounced earlier this week, by “bright young things”.
Also at the salon will the Burlesque star Immodesty Blaize and Rupert Thomas.
Full details of the event can be found on the Facebook page (though you need to be a member of the group, but it’s easy to join through Facebook): http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122662837785890&index=1
Anthony Burgess on BBC TV: In Their Own Words
Here’s the fascinating Anthony Burgess interview with Jeremy Isaacs, originally broadcast 21 March 1989, now made available again through the BBC’s archive of interviews witgh British novelists.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/12216.shtml
The BBC’s decision to make available these archives is such a valuable resource and it makes for endlessly engrossing viewing.
This interview specifically reinforces why we feel it’s so important to be reissuing 3 of Burgess’ out-of-print titles: Anthony Burgess.
August 31, 2010
Bernhard Schlink’s UK Tour Dates: 16-18 September 2010
Bernhard Schlink, author of Guilt About the Past, will be undertaking a short UK tour to promote the book. You can catch him discuss the themes and idea of this non-fiction work exploring national and personal guilt at:
16 September, 6.45pm: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London: http://www.ica.org.uk/25717/Talks/Bernhard-Schlink-National-Guilt.html
17 September, 2pm: The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxon: http://www.woodstockliteraryfestival.com/#
18 September, 1pm: Bristol Festival of Ideas, The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol: http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/?p=495
Simon van Booy on BBC Scotland’s Book Cafe
Simon van Booy appeared on Monday’s edition of BBC Scotland’s The Book Cafe alongside Alexander McCall-Smith and Antonia Fraser live from the Edinburgh Book Festival. He read from his latest, The Secret Lives of People in Love.
To listen to the programme again, follow this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tkr66/The_Book_Cafe_30_08_2010/
BBC Radio 4’s Open Book Discusses Just When Stories
Sunday 29th August saw BBC Radio 4’s Open Book discuss the just-released Just When Stories. Children’s author Philip Ardagh discusses not only these reimaginings but also Kipling’s magical original collection.
You can listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00thpvz
It’s a brilliant edition of Open Book so I suggest you listen to it all, but in case you just wanted to listen to the Just When Stories part, forward it on to: 9.19
August 27, 2010
Psst! Want to swap some state secrets for a second-hand TV?
Great review of Their Trade is Treachery in the Daily Mail.
“Just when we all thought spies and safe drops had been replaced by satellites, flying drones and desk bunnies sifting through emails, along comes a bunch of old-fashioned double agents and a flame-haired temptress with a fondness for being photo-graphed in her underwear. Just what we needed.
Here’s another reminder of the good old days when reds were under the bed, or in it: a reprint of a short handbook produced by the Central Office of Information for the UK’s top civil servants and diplomats, offering them advice on how to spot and cope with the dastardly double-dealings of the KGB.”
Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1305761/Psst-Want-swap-secrets-second-hand-TV–THEIR-TRADE-IS-TREACHERY.html#ixzz0xntcQRPY
Alec Guinness as George Smiley
August 24, 2010
Mail on Sunday Announces Just When Competition Winner
Congratulations to the winner of the Just When Stories competition, announced on Sunday 22nd August. The judges were unaninmous in in their decision to award 15 year old Alice Newitt the prize and her short story about India’s pink-headed duck will be included in the Just When Stories collection, along with tales from such literary luminaries as Hanif Kureishi, William Boyd and Michael Morpurgo among many others.
Click on the image below to read the story in full.
August 18, 2010
Simon van Booy at Edinburgh Book Festival
Simon van Booy (author of The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter will be appearing at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 30th August. He’ll be in conversation with the great Kevin Barry and they’ll be discussing the form and power of the short story.
“The resurgence of the short story is encapsulated by these two young masters. With economical prose, Simon van Booy’s short stories deliver powerful accounts of passion, memory and loneliness. Kevin Barry’s There are Little Kingdoms is an evocative and entertaining collection which heralds a rich new voice in Irish writing.”
Further information and tickets are available here: http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/kevin-barry-simon-van-booy.
John Waters Night at 229 Great Portland Street, London
If you’re a fan of John Waters and just can’t wait until publication of Role Models on 2nd December, get yourself down to 229 Great Portland Street on 30th September where there’ll be a double bill of his films.
2 movies, cheap beers, DJs and low-brow entertainment – what’s not to like?!
Thursday 30th September, 8pm-1am, tickets £5 advance (£10 on the door).
Tickets available from: http://www.229thevenue.com/?p=256
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