Readings, Plays and Poetry
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Margaret Atwood Reads from The Blind Assassin
Movie
Type: Book Reading
Author: Margaret Atwood
Event; World Book Night
Book: Excerpt from The Blind Assassin
Location: London, England
Year: 2011
Margaret Atwood is an acclaimed Canadian novelist, poet and essayist best known for "The Handmaid’s Tale" and the Booker Prize-winning novels "The...
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Northern Lights: Philip Pullman reads
Movie
Type: Book Reading
Author: Philip Pullman
Book: Northern Lights
Event; World Book Night
Year: 2011
Philip Pullman is one of Britain’s most celebrated fantasy authors, best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy. In this reading from Northern Lights, published in the U.S. as The Golden C...
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The Art of Poetry: Kate Tempest on Creativity
Movie
Type: Interview
Actor: Kate Tempest
Book: Excerpt from The Ghosts of Slavery
Event; World Book Night
Location: London, England
Year: 2011
Kae Tempest is an acclaimed British poet, playwright, novelist, recording artist and performer, known for combining spoken-word poetry with music and ...
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Tracy Chevalier: Reading from The Ghosts of Slavery
Movie
Type: Book Reading
Actor: Tracy Chevalier
Book: Excerpt from The Ghosts of Slavery
Event; World Book Night
Location: London, England
Year: 2011
American book lovers will gain an author’s perspective on how fiction can illuminate the moral choices of ordinary people. Tracy Chevalier’s rea...
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Alan Bennet reads from A Life Like Other People's
Type: Book Reading
Actor: Alan Bennet
Event: World Book Fair
Book: A Life Like Other Peoples
Location: London, England
Year: 2015
American admirers of British theatre, memoir and character-driven storytelling will appreciate hearing Alan Bennett read from "A Life Like Other People’s". Be...
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Behind the Bike Shed, A Musical Comedy
Movie
Type: Musical Comedy
Group: Cody Musical Theatre Company
Location: England
Year: 2012Originally a children's musical comedy television series that aired from 1983 to 1985. In 2012, the Cody Musical Theatre Company presented an original musical titled "Behind the Bike Sheds." This production was...
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Peter Warren Finlay (DBC Pierre) and Bleak House
Movie
Type: Book reading
Reader: DBC Pierre
Reading: Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Year: 2011Booker Prize-winning novelist DBC Pierre brings his distinctive voice to Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, one of the great novels of Victorian literature. Dickens’s wonderfully atmospheric opening draws us into...
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Sarah Waters: A Reading from Fingersmith
Movie
Type: Book reading
Reader: Sarah Waters
Reading: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Year: 2011This reading offers a compelling introduction to a novel celebrated for its vivid storytelling, grand setting and extraordinary twists. You may leave wanting to read the whole book! Acclaimed novelist Sarah W...
