Ann Patchett's
Truth and Beauty: a friendship
Monday, 9 November 2009
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
December Read
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel. In the story, the protagonist Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck, while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean
November Read
David Eagleman's Sum:
Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Synopsis on Wikipedia:
As a work of literary fiction, the book presents forty mutually exclusive stories staged in a wide variety of possible afterlives. The author has stated that none of the stories are meant to be taken as serious theological proposals, but instead that the message of the book is the importance of exploring new ideas beyond the ones that have been traditionally passed down.
The title word "Sum" refers to the Latin for "I am," as in Cogito ergo Sum.
Like Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Sum does not fall cleanly under the traditional category of a novel. It has been called "philosofiction", an "experimental novel", and "a collection of thought experiments". Most of the stories are understood to "posit the afterlife as mirroring life on Earth"
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Saturday, 25 July 2009
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Friday, 17 July 2009
July Read
About the Author
Robert Graham grew up around Belfast and lives with his wife and three children in Manchester. He teaches Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Cheshire Faculty. He is the co-author, with Keith Baty, of Elvis – The Novel (The Do-Not Press, 1997). His short stories have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies and on Radio 4. He is the author of How To Write Fiction (And Think About It) (Palgrave, 2006) and co-author of The Road To Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion (Palgrave, 2005) and Everything You Need To Know About Creative Writing (Continuum, 2007). He has written and directed over a dozen youth theatre productions. His first novel, Holy Joe, was published by Troubador in 2006.
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
May Read
Chorlton Arts Festival Event
The Bird Room by Chris Killen
Chris did three reading at our open session in the Lead Station
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
November Read
Sebatian Barry - The Secret Scripture
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2008
Winner of the Costa Book of Year Award 2008
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