Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2011 winner announced

The Wellcome Trust has announced that Alice La Plante has won the Book Prize for works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine with her novel TURN OF MIND..
The £25 000 Prize aims to stimulate interest and debate about medicine and literature, celebrating those works that explore ideas relating to our health and wellbeing.
To see more visit the Prize website, where you can also download packs for your book club.

THE BIG BOOK GROUP

An evening for book groups and everyone who loves to read.

Are you searching for new and interesting books to read?  Do you want to invigorate your book group?  Would you like to have fun AND a bookish night out?

THE BIG BOOK GROUP is a new and unique show. It is both a joyful celebration of literature and a coming together of people from all walks of life bonded by their love of books.

Come satisfy your literary appetite at THE BIG BOOK GROUP with star author 2011 Booker Shortlisted, CAROL BIRCH (Jamrach’s Menagerie), Richard and Judy’s Autumn Hot Read, ARAMINTA HALL (Everything and Nothing) and host, Craig Melvin. 

• Carol Birch on Jamrach’s Menagerie
• Araminta Hall: ‘From rejection slip to Richard & Judy Book Club in a year’
• ‘A Rough Guide to Book Critiquing’
• The Big Book Group Quiz
• ‘Hot Reads for Book Groups and their Families’
• A chance to steal the show as you help our star author with a spot of flash fiction.

12/12/2011, Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall Theatre: 01892 530613  Find out more and book tickets
 
13/12/2011, Brighton Dome, Pavilion Theatre: 01273 709708 Find out more and book tickets 

This show is not only for the thousands of existing book groups throughout the country but also for the many individuals who are interested in this cultural phenomenon and have always wondered what it would be like to be part of such a group.

Suitable 15+
Presented by Mick Perrin for Just for Laughs Live Ltd
  

 

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Literature events at Brighton’s award winning Jubilee Library. All events will be in the Jubilee Library unless otherwise stated.
Tickets available from the Booklover Store in the Jubilee Library or telephone 01273 294071

 

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