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An Evening with author Jim Crace Saturday 10 November 2018, 7.30-9.30 Noa Bakehouse, Douglas CLICK HERE for the Manx Litfest details and to book tickets. |
Acclaimed author Jim Crace, twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is coming to the Isle of Man for two events in November, brought to you by Manx Litfest, click HERE to visit the Manx Litfest website.
An Evening with Jim Crace takes place at Noa Bakehouse on Saturday night, November 10, with Jim talking about his books and career. Tickets are priced at £10 and available from the Villa Gaiety box office - call 01624 600555 or click HERE
On Friday, November 9, Manx Litfest are holding an event aimed at writers. This will be a writing session, which will include a 'surgery' conducted by Jim. This event runs from 6pm at St John Ambulance HQ in Glencrutchery Road, Douglas.
Jim will hold a group surgery early in the evening, and then be available to speak to writers individually. Tickets for the writing session/surgery are £20 - to book, please email bookings@manxlitfest.com
If you are attending both of these events, Manx Litfest is offering a discounted price of £15 for the writing session/surgery.
Jim is the author of several books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award), Harvest (shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and his most recent novel, The Melody, published earlier this year.
Jim was awarded the EM Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1992 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. In 2000, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Central England for Distinguished Literary Achievements.
An Evening with Jim Crace takes place at Noa Bakehouse on Saturday night, November 10, with Jim talking about his books and career. Tickets are priced at £10 and available from the Villa Gaiety box office - call 01624 600555 or click HERE
On Friday, November 9, Manx Litfest are holding an event aimed at writers. This will be a writing session, which will include a 'surgery' conducted by Jim. This event runs from 6pm at St John Ambulance HQ in Glencrutchery Road, Douglas.
Jim will hold a group surgery early in the evening, and then be available to speak to writers individually. Tickets for the writing session/surgery are £20 - to book, please email bookings@manxlitfest.com
If you are attending both of these events, Manx Litfest is offering a discounted price of £15 for the writing session/surgery.
Jim is the author of several books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award), Harvest (shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and his most recent novel, The Melody, published earlier this year.
Jim was awarded the EM Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1992 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. In 2000, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Central England for Distinguished Literary Achievements.
Harvest by Jim Crace
£8.99
Winner of the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the 2014 James Tait Black PrizeShortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the 2013 Goldsmiths PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionAs late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell it .
The Melody by Jim Crace
£16.99
FROM THE MAN BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF HARVEST'The Melody takes its place among his finest [novels] . . .
an ecological fable for modern times' Guardian'Seductively atmospheric . . .
deeply moving' Daily Mail'Brilliant' ObserverAlfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days in the large villa he has always called home. Then one night Busi is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids the contents of his larder. Busi is convinced that what assaulted him was no animal, but a child, `innocent and wild', and his words fan the flames of old rumour - of an ancient race of people living in the bosk surrounding the town - and new controversy: the town's paupers, the feral wastrels at its edges, must be dealt with.
Once and for all. Lyrical and warm, intimate and epic, The Melody by Jim Crace tracks the few days that will see Busi and the town he loves altered irrevocably. This is a story about grief and ageing, about reputation and the loss of it, about love and music and the peculiar way myth seeps into real life.
And it is a political novel too - a rallying cry to protect those we persecute.
