Northern Lights will be among one million books given away across the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of an initiative to encourage people to read books. World Book Night, which will take place on Saturday 11 March, 2011, will involve a give-away of about 40,000 copies of 25 books selected. 20,000 ‘givers’ will pass on 48 copies of one of these books to whomever they choose, while remaining copies will be distributed to places such as prisons and hospitals. For more information, visit the World Book Night website. You can also apply to become a giver if you live in the UK or Ireland.
World Book Night
December 4, 2010
Oxford Inspires webcast details confirmed
March 4, 2010
Last month, Kinders alerted us to Philip Pullman’s Cultural Platform at Oxford Inspires. The details of the event have since been confirmed. The live webcast will take place Thursday, 4 March at 1700 GMT, “where Mr. Pullman will share his own perspectives on contemporary cultural issues and the value of culture in modern times.” Click here for more information.
Thanks again to Haku from our French community partner Cittàgazze for the tip!
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Upcoming appearances
February 28, 2010
Philip Pullman’s latest work The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ will be released 31st March and the author will be making a series of appearance to promote it this coming spring and summer:
- Sunday 28 March, 12 pm: Oxford Literary Festival [link]
- Thursday 1 April, 8 pm: Guildhall, Bath [link]
- Saturday 10 April, 1.30 pm: Cambridge Wordfest – In Conversation with Sir Peter Stothard [link]
- Monday 12 April, 7.45 pm: Royal Festival Hall, QEH – In Conversation with Marina Warner [link]
- Tuesday 13 April, 6.30 pm: English PEN, Free Word Centre – In Conversation with Richard Harries [link]
- Saturday 17 April, 3 pm: Dublin Writers’ Festival, Trinity College – In Conversation with Fintan O’Toole [link]
- Sunday 2 May, 4 pm: New College Forum, New College, Oxford
- Wednesday 26 May, 8 pm: Charleston Festival, Sussex – ‘Enduring Myths’, with David Eagleman and William Nicholson [link]
- Saturday 5 June, 7 pm: Hay on Wye Festival – In Conversation with Peter Florence [link]
- 18-20 June: Shakespeare and Company Literary Festival, Paris, in collaboration with PEN and The New York Review of Books: Storytelling, Politics and the Imagination [link]
- 14-30 August: Edinburgh International Book Festival – details, date, and time to be confirmed [link]
- 8-17 October: Cheltenham Festival – details, date, and time to be confirmed [link]
If any readers will be attending any of the above events and would like to see their experiences published on BridgetotheStars.net, please let us know by commenting below.
Oxfam auctioning a signed first edition of The Amber Spyglass
February 25, 2010
The charity Oxfam will be auctioning a signed British first edition of The Amber Spyglass. It is a used copy and is described on eBay as having black boards and gold lettering, and being in good condition. The auction starts in just under nine hours, and the starting bid is 20 GBP. For more information, visit the eBay page. Thanks to Nix for this tip.
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Pullman on culture at Oxford Inspires
February 3, 2010
Philip Pullman will share his perspectives on “contemporary cultural issues and the value of culture in modern times” at the Oxford Inspires’ Cultural Platforms 2010 event (held at the Said Business School in March). The event will be open to invited guests, and to the general public via a live web-cast of the talk and a web chat with Pullman himself. The topic for the web chat will be “culture”. Email questions to be put to Pullman at sarah.pakes@oxfordinspires.org.
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