New library opening in North Yorkshire - authors, illustrators etc wanted

From January 2011 onwards

North Yorkshire County Council is opening a new library in the small community of Starbeck in partnership with day services to adults with learning disabilities. We will be celebrating the new library from January 2011 onwards and are looking for authors, illustrators or publishers who will support us with events, goody bags, or anything else! For more information about the development, please visit our website (www.northyorks.gov.uk/starbeck), our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/starbeckhub), or contact Karen Thornton (karen.thornton@northyorks.gov.uk)

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Short story competition prize giving

November 2010

Sheffield libraries are hoping to organise activities during National Short Story Week and would like a short story writer to attend a prize giving for competition winners in Sheffield.

For more details please contact Ros Witten ros.witten@sheffield.gov.uk

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Author available: Lindsay Clarke, The Water Theatre

September and October 2010

Lindsay Clarke is available to talk about his new book, The Water Theatre, "a powerful story of loyalty and loss, of betrayal and reconciliation." This is his first literary novel after the Chymical Wedding, winner of the Whitbread Award for Fiction in 1989.

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Author Available: Anthony Clavane, Promised Land

August and September 2010

Anthony Clavane is available to talk about his new book, Promised Land.

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the ill-fated Leeds United football club in the tradition of 'The Damned United'.

Contact fmurphy@randomhouse.co.uk

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Author available: Penny Rudge, Foolish Lessons in Life and Love

All 2010

Penny Rudge is available for small and medium-sized readings.

A synopsis of Foolish Lessons in life and Love

23 year-old Taras Krohe is wedged between the two women in his life: his Russian girlfriend, Katya, who is struggling to fund her way through college; and his overbearing Bukovinian mother. He is devoted to both women in different ways but then Katya leaves him for a ponytailed aesthete - and his mother, he realises, he will never be able to escape.

Ten years after an ominous scholarship took him to a top-ranking public school, the big-boned and loveable Taras and his mother now live in a small South London flat. Taras's father died, shortly before he was born, and Mrs. Krohe went on to inherit a curious benefactress in the form of Mrs. Bartlett.

But then Mrs. Bartlett passed away and her unnerving relatives arrived at the door. With eviction looming, the terminally easy-going Taras is forced to show his mother that he is a man, and uncover the secret behind his family's descent into disaster. But she has other ideas for her little pourchi: she is determined to wrestle him away from the dangerous influences his search reveals. And it is by no means certain who will come out on top . . .

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