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Firestation Bookswap
Firestation Bookswap |
 17 June 2010 7.45-9.30pm |
Tickets: £5
The Firestation, Windsor
www.firestationartscentre.com
A literary event with a difference.
Novelist Marie Phillips, author of Gods Behaving Badly, and publisher Scott Pack host an evening of conversation and banter with a cracking line-up of guest writers: this month it's WriteWords' own Emma Darwin, and historian Edward Vallance, author of A Radical History of Britain.
Don't expect the polite, reserved atmosphere you would normally find at a literary gathering – The Book Swap is irreverent, entertaining and slightly chaotic. You won’t hear boring speeches, the same old questions or authors reading from their latest book - but you could witness almost anything else. There is also a nice bar, and usually cake.
Audience members are required to bring an unwanted book along with them which they will have an opportunity to swap for a different on one on the night. No one leaves empty handed.
"Certainly a literary event with a difference... I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Book Swap evening doesn't become the popular way to mix books, writers and the reading public." - Robert McCrum, Guardian
"this is exactly the kind of blog-linked, local event that publishers should be really encouraging, a sort of odd cross between a public reading and a book group." - Emma Townshend, Independent
Don’t forget to bring a book!
Approximate show times 2 x 45 mins with interval.
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