5/6/2010
This month Patricia Guy, our intrepid wine
writer, will be a judge at
Verona Wine Top - 4 intensive days of tasting
the principal wines of
the Veneto: Amarone, Valpolicella, Soave and Bardolino. Then
in August she is off to Cape Town to be part
of the tasting panel for the Michelangelo International
Wine Awards South Africa 2010.
27/5/2010
One of our members, Elizabeth Jennings, runs
the annual Women's Fiction Festival in Matera.
Read her account of
the changes that have accompanied her time in Matera,
and find out how the Matera book festival was started.
25/5/2010
Peter Popham has been commissioned by Random
House to write a biography of Burmese democracy leader
Aung San Suu Kyi. To be delivered next year.
21/5/2010
The Wellcome Collection’s next big exhibition
is about SKIN, opening June 10. Michelle
Lovric will be leading a personal tour of the exhibition
on July 28th, and doing a library event there
the afternoon of July 3rd, based on her recent
novel, The Book of Human Skin. See more about
the Wellcome Collection
here.
Apart from this, Michelle has also been appointed
Royal Literary Fellow at the Courtauld
Institute of Art, starting September 2010. Impressive!
13/5/2010
Michelle Lovric has been on Woman's
Hour on BBC Radio 4 talking about her new novel The
Book of Human Skin.
Listen to her interview here.
25/4/2010
Simon Mawer's Man Booker shortlisted novel
The Glass Room is now out in paperback, published
by Abacus. It is also on the shortlist for the brand
new Walter Scott Prize for Historical
Novels as well as the Jewish Quarterly Wingate
Prize.
2/4/2010
Michelle Lovric’s fourth novel for adults,
The Book of Human Skin, is out this month published
by Bloomsbury. Read an extensive interview with Michelle
online here
and read about the new book here.
Michelle is also due to give the Venice in Peril lecture in
June:
Venice in Peril Summer Lecture
by Michelle Lovric
with an introduction by John Julius Norwich,
The Royal Geographical Society, 7pm, Tuesday
1 June 2010
The Night Venice Nearly Died
The Conspiracy of Bajamonte Tiepolo 1310–2010
15/1/2010
 Amidst
tumultuous applause (from us, as well) Patricia Guy
was inducted into the Baker Street Irregulars
at the annual Sherlock Holmes Birthday Dinner
at the Yale Club in New York City. Here she
is, looking proud.
12/10/2009
Ah well, The Glass Room didn't win the Man
Booker Prize but in the last few days before the announcement
it made a late run and became second favourite at the bookie's!
However, making the shortlist is pretty good. Details may be
found on Simon
Mawer's website.
8/9/2009
Simon Mawer's
latest novel, The Glass Room, has just been
included in the shortlist for the Man
Booker Prize
for 2009.
Michelle Lovric's new novel for children,
The Undrowned Child, was published by Orion
on 2nd June. Go to the
website to find out more... and be sure to have
the sound turned on!
15/5/2009 Hot news! Patricia Guy
has just been awarded a 2009 Riviera Internazionale
Prize for distinguished writing on
an international level. She'll be at the award ceremony in June.
More details to follow...
Elizabeth Jennings and a few others are meeting
up in Florence over lunch on either the 25th
or the 26th April. Get in touch with Elizabeth
if you are interested in joining them.
Michelle Lovric’s fourth novel for adults,
The Book of Human Skin, will be published by
Bloomsbury in April 2010
A story of unmitigated villainy, Holy Anorexia, quack medicine,
murder, love and a very unusual form of bibliomania, it is set
in Napoleonic Venice and Peru in the last picaresque days of
colonialism. Michelle's first novel for children, The
Undrowned Child, will be published by Orion on July
2nd 2009. The book looks like this...
Simon Mawer's new novel The Glass
Room is out, published by Little, Brown.
It has attracted numerous excellent reviews from the major newspapers
and journals. Read
them here.
Patricia Guy has won the Singapore leg of
the GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 2008 for
the best book on matching food and wine. Her book Wine
with Asian Food now goes on to face the world at the
finals in May 2009. More details at www.patriciaguy.com
Greek translation rights to Simon Mawer's
latest novel, The Glass Room, have just been
sold. This is on top of Portuguese (both Portugal and Brazil),
Dutch, Italian and Czech. Find
out more here.
Congratulations are due to Alastair
McEwen. He has been voted runner up in the 2008 John
Florio Prize for Italian translation with his translation
of Umberto Eco's Turning Back the
Clock. The John Florio Prize is administered by
the Society of Authors and is awarded biennially.
The Poetry
on the Lake anthology is now out. Main theme: language,
esp. in relation to poetry. Details may be found here.
After eleven years of deep suspicion, Miranda Innes
and her partner Dan Pearce have decided to
get married this summer. Perhaps to mark this, Dan's cartoon,
Oscar, the Second Coming, will begin to be
serialised from July in an august French literary ezine. It
will be visible on www.oscholars.com.
Their riad in Marrakech is available for rent.
See www.mirandan.com
and www.riadmaizie.eu.
Michelle Lovric’s first children’s
novel, The Undrowned Child, will be published by Orion in early
2009, with a sequel in progress for the following year. She
will be in conversation with the Italian writer Tiziano Scarpa
at the Italian Cultural Institute in London
on July 10th, discussing how and why people write about
Venice. Find out more on www.michellelovric.com.
Prolific wine writer and enthusiastic Sherlockian, Patricia
Guy, had three books published last year. Find
out all about them here.
Alastair McEwen, translator extraordinaire,
had three of his translations from Italian published in 2007,
including two of books by Umberto Eco - as well as a translation
of the libretto of a popular opera. Details
are here. |
