Canongate Books

A new series of literary events at Edinburgh Central Library focusing on the important relationship between writer and publisher: the series kicks off with prize-winning, celebrated author Michel Faber and Jamie Byng, his publisher at Edinburgh-based independent, Canongate Books.

Faber's first book Some Rain Must Fall a...nd Other Stories was published in 1998 by Canongate, who has published all his subsequent seven works – Under the Skin, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps, The Courage Consort, The Fahrenheit Twins and Other Stories , The Apple, The Crimson Petal and the White and most recently The Fire Gospel, which was published last year. This session will explore this successful, ongoing relationship and examine, amongst other things, the influence that author and publisher can have on one another.

There will be a reading from Faber, an audience Q&A session and a book signing.

The event is FREE and complimentary drinks will be served. Booking is essential, email helen@bridgereadings.net. Read More

Venice we visit with acclaimed writer Geoff Dyer who reads from his latest novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and a screening of Visconti's Death in Venice, a 1971 take on the classic tale of impossible attraction set in a city of sickness and decay.

Onto Varanasi we travel with virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Talv...in Singh improvising live on the tabla to a rare screening of the epic ambient documentary Forest of Bliss.

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Tickets £7.50
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