When : 16th April 2007 - 6:00pm
Where : The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Price : £5.00
Lesley Glaister’s novels include Honour Thy Father, Limestone and Clay, As Far As You Can Go and, in 2007, Nina Todd has Gone. She has received a number of awards for her fiction including the Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Yorkshire Post Book Award. She lives in Peebles and teaches creative writing at the Sheffield Hallam.
Toby Litt was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1968. He read English at Worcester College, Oxford, and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury, winning the 1995 Curtis Brown Fellowship. He lived in Prague from 1990 to 1993 and published his first book, a collection of short stories entitled Adventures in Capitalism, in 1996.
His novels include Beatniks: An English Road Movie (1997), Corpsing (2000), Deadkidsongs (2001), Finding Myself (2003) and Ghost Story (2004). A short story by Toby Litt was included in the anthology All Hail the New Puritans (2000), edited by Matt Thorne and Nicholas Blincoe, and he has edited The Outcry (2001), Henry James''s last completed novel, for Penguin in the UK. In 2003 Toby Litt was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 ''Best of Young British Novelists''. He lives in London.
Their reading will be followed by a Q & A led by John McAuliffe.
Waterstones Manchester will run a bookstall in the foyer of the Martin Harris Centre on the evening of each event.
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Tickets are free to The University of Manchester staff and students. All tickets must be booked from the box office in advance or on the evening of the event.
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