Karen Campbell reads from her book After the Fire and is interviewed by Carina Burman. Helen Fitzgerald reads from her book The Donor and is interviewed by Helena Dahlgren.
Recorded in The Uppsala English Bookshop during "Kulturnatten" 10/9 in Uppsala.
Half the staff are off to the ever exciting Gothenburg Book Fair this week, which means that the shop in Uppsala will have slightly adjusted opening hours from Tuesday 20/9 to Monday 26/9:
enjoy reality leakage and sense of wonder in your fiction
Through most of The Restoration Game you can safely allow yourself to believe that you are reading a kind of contemporary spy thriller, although kind of light on the action and violence and heavy on the personal history of the geek girl protagonist Lucy.
The summer holidays are over and weren't they wonderful? But how fantastic to pick up our pencils and books again as school starts! Come and hear stories about holiday fun and starting back at school, suitable for children and their adults."
First story telling is the 18th September at 13 o'clock in The Uppsala English Bookshop.
Helena and Fredrik will takes you on a journey through British and Celtic folk music. Recorded during the Kulturnatt 2011 in the Uppsala English Bookshop.
Ann and Samuel Charters visited us on September 8 2011 at the English Bookshop in Gamla Stan Stockholm and held the first of two performances of Beat Thing! – a performance/reading of Beat literature with the assistance of Björn Lundqvist on the bass. Christer from the bookshop presented.
11/9 The Queens of Scotland 15 o'clock in Gamla Stan.
Glaswegian writers Karen Campbell & Helen Fitzgerald, strong fresh voices of the current generation of Scottish authors, visit The English Bookshop for a reading and Q&A. Karen Campbell has written four of the strongest police novels to emerge from the UK in the last decade. Helen Fitzgerald has written six astounding novels that defy definition with their unorthodox portrayals of women.
The 8/9 at 19 o'clock we are holding the Beat Thing event at the bookshop in Gamla Stan, Stockholm.
An evening of diverse Beat Generation writing performed by Ann Charters (beat generation scholar and the first biographer of Jack Kerouac) and Sam Charters (eminent jazz/blues historian and biographer). This program was performed last year at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York.
During the KulturNatten Uppsala 10th of September, we will arrange three events in our Uppsala Bookshop (at Svartbäcksgatan 19): British & Celtic Folk Music! – 3 to 4 pm The Queens of Scotland! – 5 to 7 pm Beat Thing! – 7:30 to 9 pm
UPPSALA The Uppsala English Bookshop Svartbäcksgatan 19 753 32 Uppsala Tel 018-10 05 10 uppsala@bookshop.se
STOCKHOLM The English Bookshop Södermannagatan 22 116 23 Stockholm Tel 08-790 55 10 stockholm@bookshop.se
GÖTEBORG The English Bookshop Kungsgatan 19 411 19 Göteborg Tel 031-45 55 10 goteborg@bookshop.se
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