Jewish Book Week 2012 on Tour

Bournemouth

27 Feb

12 noon

Alison Pick talks about her Booker-longlisted novel, Far to Go, set in the months leading up to Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia where the Bauer family are wrestling with the prospect of sending six year old Pepik on the kindertransport to England.

Bournemouth Library

CANCELLED

Bristol

17 Feb

6.30 pm

Michael Hofmann: The Life and Work of Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, the elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, best known for The Radetzky March, one of the most important novels of the last 100 years. His translator, Michael Hofmann, has done much to promote today's renewed interest in Roth and his new collection of Roth's letters provides a stunning biography. Further details and booking link here.

Foyles,

Cabot Circus
Price: Free,

but booking is required

21 Feb

6.30 pm

Avner de-Shalit and Sunder Katwala: Does the Identity of a City Matter in a Global Age?
Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. Avner de-Shalit's new book, The Spirit of Cities, revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. He discusses cities and identity with Sunder Katwala, director of the new think tank British Future, which looks at identity, integration, migration and opportunity. Further details and booking link here.

Foyles,

Cabot Circus
Price: Free,

but booking is required

Cambridge

21 Feb

5.30 pm

Etgar Keret in conversation with Yaron Peleg

Etgar Keret comes to Cambridge to discuss his latest short story collection Suddenly, a Knock on the Door. He will read from his work and there will also be the opportunity to purchase a signed copy (£12.99). The event will be chaired by Dr Yaron Peleg (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 1

8 Mill Lane,

Cambridge, CB2 1RX

Free and open to all, no registration required.

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1934/

Glasgow

26 Feb

3.30 pm

Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren will be speaking about their new book, The Lady of Fleet Street .

Garnethill Synagogue,

129 Hill Street, Glasgow

Tickets £5 (include refreshments)

Enquiries: Rachel Conn  

07989-420075

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