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Originally Posted by Helen Smith
Here's a link to the list of judges. Their names won't mean much to anyone outside the UK.
SeaBookGuy, have you read Alan Bennett's Writing Home? It sounds as though you haven't as you only mention the dramatizations. I recommend Writing Home. It includes the story of the 'Lady in the Van' that he later made into a stage play.
I think the first thing of his I ever read was Talking Heads, the monologues which were also on TV in the UK. Some of them are available on DVD but I can't find the whole collection anywhere. The second audio collection is listed on Amazon.com. They are available on Amazon.co.uk and no doubt elsewhere in the UK.
I have just re-read Muriel Spark's Loitering with Intent. It's so clever. I'm also recently read The Abbess of Crewe.
I think I will sign up to be a 'giver' for the World Book Night.
Here's the selection criteria according to their site:
* A passion for reading
* A commitment to spread that passion to others
* The spread of givers throughout the UK and Ireland
* The need to have a diverse range of givers |
I have the two Talking Heads as Audible books, as well as the third series with Judi Dench, et als. Thanks for the 'Writing Home' suggestion.
I recommended Beryl Bainbridge's
Injury Time to a friend who is a huge Spark fan; he loved it, fully agreeing it's in the Spark style (tradition). I listened to the audio (read by Timothy West); he read the print book.
He's read
Old Filth, and I've read
The Queen of the Tambourine, which have turned us into fans of Gardam as well!