How to sing your way to Christmas in isolation and Matthew Parris talks about his new book on trauma and genius
We’re joining:
The Self-Isolation Choir and their Christmas at Home Concert on 20 th December
https://www.theselfisolationchoir.com
We’re reading
Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma, by Matthew Parris, published by
Profile Books, £16.99
We’re going online to
The Stratford Literary Winter Weekend Festival
Friday 20 th November to Wednesday 25 th November
Matthew Parris talks about his book at 8pm Friday 20th November (available until 11pm
25th November)
stratlitfest.co.uk.
We’re watching:
A one-time live reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by Jenny Hall and starring
Geraldine James and Rebecca Hall
November 19 th at 7.30 on Zoom
Tickets from http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-tempest-shake-festival
We’re buying
Portraits of NHS Heroes compiled by Tom Croft, published by Bloomsbury, £25
All royalties and £2.50 of every sale goes to NHS Charities Together
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/portraits-for-nhs-heroes-9781448218004/
Books are My Bag Reader Awards Winners
Reader’s Choice Book of the Year : Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press)
Fiction: The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton, Raven Books, Bloomsbury
Non-Fiction: by Dara McAnulty (Little Toller Books)
Poetry: Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright: An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year by Britta
Teckentrup and Fiona Waters (Nosy Crow)
Young Adult Fiction: Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury)
Children’s Fiction: The Highland Falcon Thief by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman, illustrated
by Elisa Paganelli (Macmillan Children’s Books)
Breakthrough Author: Jean Menzies author of Greek Myths (DK)
Edited and Produced by Alex Graham
