The Reading Agency is working with Culture 24 to get more writers into more places, so we’re really pleased to announce that as part of the 2012 Museums at Night Festival, reading groups and book clubs can get to see and hear four top writers talking about their work at leading cultural venues.
Museums at Night is the annual after-hours celebration of arts, culture and heritage when hundreds of museums, galleries, libraries, archives and heritage sites open their doors for special evening events. It takes place over the weekend of Friday 18th – Sunday 20th May 2012.
Museums at Night author events
Friday 18 May
Man Booker prize nominated novelist Jon McGregor will be at Dundee Discovery Point. He will use photos, videos, maps, a suitcase full of props and mysterious works from his latest book, This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, for a short story performance. 1900-2000, free admission.
Craig Taylor, whose book Londoners: The Days And Nights Of London Now captures the thoughts and feelings of hundreds of the capital’s inhabitants, will be doing a reading at the London Transport Museum. 1900-2200, tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
Hugh Barker, whose Hedge Britannia celebrates the glory of the hedge, will be at Lyme Regis Museum discussing how we became a nation of gardeners. 1830-2000, free admission.
Saturday 19 May
Veteran war reporter, ITN news anchorman and Afghanistan expert Sandy Gall will be at Surgeons’ Hall Museum, Edinburgh to talk about his book War Against The Taliban: Why It All Went Wrong In Afghanistan. 1800, free admission.
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