Award-winning Cumbrian author Sarah Hall will be visiting Carlisle library on Thursday (21 August) to read from her latest book, 'The Carhullan Army.'
The event, which starts at 7pm on Thursday at the library in The Lanes, has been organised by the county council to celebrate the National Year of Reading - a national campaign designed to inspire everyone to read more.
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. Her first novel, Haweswater, was published in 2002. Set in the 1930s, it focuses on one family - the Lightburns - and is a rural tragedy about the disintegration of a community of Cumbrian hill-farmers, due to the building of a reservoir. It won several awards, including the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Sarah's second book, The Electric Michelangelo (2004), set in the turn-of-the-century seaside resorts of Morecambe Bay and Coney Island, was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Her latest book won the 2007 John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 2008 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction.
As well as reading from 'The Carhullan Army', Sarah will also be providing an insight into her life as a professional writer.
Tickets are priced at £2 and are available from Carlisle library. Included in the ticket price is a glass of wine or soft drink on arrival, and entry into a prize draw to win a signed copy of 'The Carhullan Army'.
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