In a stroke of very good fortune, I'm soon going to be in Edinburgh for the International Book Festival, a trip that includes the brilliant promise of hearing Colm Toibin, Rachel Cusk, Benjamin Wood, Hermione Lee, Marina Warner, and many others speak. I'll sadly miss hearing Marilynne Robinson by a few days...
Event details THE KOBO WRITING LIFE EVENT SEAN MICHAELS & ANNA SMAILL Sat 22 Aug 7:00pm - 8:00pm Baillie Gifford Corner Theatre £7.00, £5.00 Born in Stirling, Montreal’s Sean Michaels won the Giller Prize (Canada’s Man Booker) for Us Conductors, a novel about electricity that tells the true story of Russian inventor and spy, Lev Termen. New Zealand’s Anna Smaill has penned The Chimes, set in a future London where music has replaced written words and memory is forbidden. Two debut novelists to keep an eye on. Graduation Address for Victoria University's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences May 2015. |
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