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Gareth May on 120 Things Every Man Should Know
Gareth May is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
For all boys and young men who've outgrown their 'Dangerous Book' and need to grow up, this is the essential instruction manual for young men everywhere.
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Evie Wyld on After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
Evie is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Set in eastern Australia, this beautifully realised debut tells a story of fathers and sons, their wars, and things they will never know about each other.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224088874
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Robert Hudson on The Kilburn Social Club
June - December 2009
Robert is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'The Kilburn Social Club' is a story of love, idealism and identity in something like modern, multicultural Britain. For sceptics and sports-lovers alike, it is neither cynical about what makes fans tick nor devoted to further puffing football's absurd self-image.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224085840
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Philip Sington on The Einstein Girl
June - December 2009
Philip is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'The Einstein Girl' is a gripping and atmospheric historical thriller set in Berlin in 1932, inspired by documents recently discovered about Einstein's family.
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David Szalay on The Innocent
June - December 2009
David is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
David Szalay, winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2008, returns with a searing work of acute realism and bleak beauty set in Communist Russia.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224081578
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Chloe Aridjis on Book of Clouds
June - December 2009
Lisa is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'Book of Clouds' is a haunting, curious and exquisitely-written debut novel about a young woman adrift in Berlin, where a string of fateful encounters leads to romance, violence and revelation.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0701184256
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Hephzibah Anderson on Chastened
June - December 2009
Hephzibah is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Chastened is a witty look at twenty-first-century sex as Hephzibah Anderson seeks to resurrect romance during a year long adventure in chastity.
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Elaine di Rollo on A Proper Education for Girls
June - December 2009
Elaine is available for library events.
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'A Proper Education for Girls' is a rollicking story of twin sisters and their fight for freedom, set in 1857.
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William Fotheringham on Fallen Angel
June - December 2009
Claire is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Fallen Angel is the remarkable biography of the 'most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century' by the acclaimed autho of 'Put Me Back on my Bike'
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224074474
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Sarah Herman on I Like My Job
London and South East
Sarah is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
I Like My Job is an hilarious graphic novel about office life.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=022408576X
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Jojo Tulloh on Freshly Picked
June - December 2009
Jojo is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Freshly Picked is a thing of beauty - gorgeously designed and illustrated and bursting with delicious recipes, it will be irresistible to anyone interested in food.
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Jeremy Whittle on Bad Blood
June - December 2009
Jeremy is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Shortlisted for William Hill's Sports Book of the Year 2008, Badd Blood is an insiders account of ten years following the Tour de France and the scandal and intrigue that went with it.
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Brian Thompson on The Widow's Secret
June - December 2009
Bella Wallis is a charismatic Victorian widow with a sideline in sensationalist novels and a determination to seek revenge in print for what can never be achieved in real life.
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Brian Thompson on The Captain's Table
June - December 2009
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Bella Wallis returns in a scintillating new episode from prizewinning author Brian Thompson
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Peter Beaumont on The Secret Life of War
June - December 2009
Peter is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
The Secret Life of War is a defining book about the experience of conflict, for those living through it and those reporting it, distilled from a decade and a half on the world's frontlines.
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Patricia Nicol on Sucking Eggs
June - December 2009
Patricia is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.
With this clever, solourful, comparative history, Patricia Nicol shows us that, when it comes to being green, resourceful and eco-friendly, our grannies can show us the way!
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Iain Pears on Stone's Fall
June - December 2009
Iain is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
Stone's Fall marks the long-awaited return of one of our great historical thriller writers and rivals his international bestseller 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.
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Helen Carr on The Verse Revolutionaries
June - December 2009
Helen is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
The Verse Revolutionaries traces the interactions, love affairs and quarrels of the Imagists (a colourful group of poets in London before the First World War).
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David Aaronovitch on Voodoo Histories
June - December 2009
David is available for large venue library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
In this entertaining and enlightening book, Aaranovitch explores and explodes a dozen of the major conspiracy theories. In doing so, he examines why people believe them and makes an argument for a truer, purer form of scepticism.
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Adam Foulds on The Quickening Maze
June - December 2009
Adam is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
Based on real events in Epping Forest, The Quickening Maze centres on the incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare.
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Autumn events in Hammersmith & Fulham
21st Sept to end of October
Authors wanted!
If you are promoting a book in the autumn, I would love to hear from you.
Locations are Hammersmith Library and Fulham Library and also the new Shepherds Bush Library in the Westfields shopping centre. For the latter, I am looking to have some of the events confirmed by early July, for external publicity.
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Russell Miller on The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle
Sept 2009 - March 2010
The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle is the definitive biography of an enduringly fascinating figure, told with panache and full of new material unavailable to any previous biographers.http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1844139220
Russell is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
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Ian Mortimer on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Sept 2009 - Feb 2010
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England is an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a 'completely different world': England in the Middle Ages.
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224079948
Ian is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
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Michael Holroyd on A Strange Eventful History
Sept 2009 - March 2010
A major literary event from 'one of the greatest biographers of our age'. http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099497182
Michael is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
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Tim Harris on Players
Sept - Dec 2009
The men, women and animals who created the world of sport - a companion piece to the superlative 'Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know'
Tim is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224082779
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'The Very Thought of You' is a coming-of-age novel with a love story at its heart, and Rosie Alison will talk about the child witness in fiction
July - Oct 2009
Anyone who loved L.P. Hartley's THE GO-BETWEEN or Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT will fall for this extraordinary coming-of-age novel.
Rosie lives in London but she is prepared to travel to any location for events and talks to reading groups.
To read more about this novel, please click on the following link:
http://www.almabooks.co.uk/the-very-thought-of-you-p-320-book.html
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Day of the Assassins with Johnny O'Brien
History made fun as author involves children in debate on WW1 using whiteboard/film and a reading
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Havering Book Festival
12th Oct - 24th Oct
Havering, East London, are hosting a Book Festival 12th Oct - 24th Oct. We are looking to put on a number of events for all ages. We have recently hosted a very successful event with Jo Brand and Liza Tarbuck, pulling in an audience of 300. If you want to follow in Jo Brand's footsteps please contact us - we will amke you very welcome!!
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Meet Sulaiman Addonia, author of The Consequences of Love
2nd week in June
Sulaiman Addonia is looking forward to discussing his book with you! If your book club is in London, then don't wait and enter our competition to win a personal visit by the author to talk about his book The Consequences of Love in June:
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Hooked on Reading 2009
Annual Children's Literature Conference run jointly by Derbyshire and Derby Library. Expecting c120 delegates drawn mainly from libraries and schools. Opportunity for publishers to supply promotional materials for goody bags/display.
Full details from www.derbyshire.gov.uk/hooked
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Yaba Badoe on True Murder
August 2009 - January 2010
Yaba is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'True Murder' is an entrancing debut by an accomplished film-maker.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099523329
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Tom Payne on Fame
August 2009 - January 2010
Tom is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'Fame' is a fascinating and enlightening account of our relationship with famous people and how it has evolved throughout the ages
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Raphael Honigstein on Englischer Fussball
August 2009 - January 2010
Raphael is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
'Englischer Fussball' is a German's-eye view on our national obsession.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=022408013X
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Mathias Malzieu on The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
August and September 2009
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'The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock HEart' is a dark, tender fairytale spiced with devilish humour by French singer Mathias Malzieu.
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Mark Griffiths on The Lotus Quest
August and September 2009
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'The Lotus Quest' is a magical botanical adventure: a writer's journey in search of the mystery of the Lotus, sacred flower of religions from Egypt to Japan.
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Diana Evans on The Wonder
June - December 2009
Diana is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
From the winner of the inaugural Orange Award for New Writers comes this dazzling new novel about the fight to achieve one's dream and an unsolved disappearance at the heart of a family.
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Stuart Neville on The Twelve
May - July 2009
Stuart Neville is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Set against the backdrop of a post-conflict Northern ireland struggling with its past, 'The Twelve' takes the reader from the back streets of the city to the country's darkest heart.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1846552796
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Nicola Keegan on Swimming
July 2009
Nicola is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
This is a debut not to be missed - Nicola Keegan has a new voice in fiction, with a dark edge reminiscent of Lionel Shriver
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0701182857
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Karen Armstrong on The Case for God
July 2009
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The Case fir God is an essentuak book for our times, answering bestselling atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in arguing that faith still has a fundemental role in the modern world.
For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1847920349
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Faiza Guene on Dreams from the Endz
June and July 2009
Faiza is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.
Dreams from the Endz is the story of problem-laden Ahlème and her return to and eventual reconciliation with her homeland, Algeria.
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Jane Feaver on Love Me Tender
June - September 2009
Jane is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.
An enchanting new book from the author of the highly acclaimed 'According to Ruth': tales of discord and discomfort in a small, rural town.
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Sarah Wise on The Blackest Streets
June - December 2009
Sarah is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.
The Blackest Streets is a brilliant exploration of the 'seedy side of Victorian London' from one of our most talented young historians.
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John Campbell on Pistols at Dawn
June - December 2009
Joe is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
A brilliant book about political rivalries through the ages, from the prize-winning biographer and historian.
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John Campbell on Margaret Thatcher: The Abridged
June - December 2009
John is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
John Campbell's award-winnind two volume biography of Margaret Thatcher has now been edited into one book. It is 'the' poltical biography.
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Joe Stretch on Wildlife
March - August 2009
Joe is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.
Viciously funny, brave, challenging and hugely topical, the new novel from Joe Stretch takes us on an unforgettable journey to a frighteningly familiar world. Are you ready?
For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099532077
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Sulaiman Addonia on The Consequences of Love
January - December 2009
Sulaiman is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
A gifted young storyteller presents an eye-opening, authentic and terrifying tale of illicit love in Saudi Arabia.
For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099521148
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Tom Lee on Greenfly
January - December 2009
Tom is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1846551943
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Sara Stockbridge on Hammer
January - December 2009
Sara is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book.
Meet Grace Hammer - matriarch and jewel thief - on the run in Victorian London in this vigorous and stylish debut by actress Sara Stockbridge. For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0701182237
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Caroline Moorhead in Dancing to The Precipice
January - December 2009
Caroline is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book.
For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=070117904X
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Brian Chikwava on Harare North
January - December 2009
Brian is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
In this astonishing, revelatory original debut, Caine Prize winner Brian Chikwava tackles head-on the realities of life as a refugee. For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224086111
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Tim Thornton on The Alternative Hero
January - December 2009
Tim is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
The Alternative Hero is that rare gem - a novel about popular music in which every sentence is completely, totally right. And it is very funny. For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=022408724X
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Author Available
December 2008 - December 2009
Visits can be geared toward the pre-school or the primary age groups, with readings from the book, listening to recordings of some of the more remarkable bird calls, discussion of seasons in the different hemispheres, examination of some seeds of trees, and crafts and activities based on those in the book. For older children, there is a writing workshop combined with nature observation and sketching, discussion of the research involved for "The Big Field : a Child's Year Under the Southern Cross", and more discussion of the Atlantic Rainforest and the organisations working to restore it. There can also be an art and poetry workshop with a discussion of medieval illuminated manuscripts and how they were the inspiration for the pattern of the artwork in the book. Sessions last approximately one half-hour for very young children to one and a half hours for older children.
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Thomas Wright on Oscar's Books
Depends on availability
Thomas Wright is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.
http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0701180617
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Kate Colquhoun - Taste
April - September 2009
Kate Colquhoun is an energetic and enthusiastic personality, passionate and hugely well informed about the history of food. Kate is available for library events for audiences of 40 +
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