Award-winning Cumbrian author Sarah Hall will be visiting Kendal library later this month to read from her latest book, The Carhullan Army.
The free event takes place on Monday 23 June, at 7:00pm and has been organised by Cumbria County Council to mark the National Year of Reading - a national campaign designed to inspire everyone to read more.
Sarah was born in Cumbria in 1974 and currently lives in the North Carolina. 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 her most recent book, Sarah will also be on providing an insight into her life as a professional writer.
Her first novel, Haweswater, was published in 2002. It is set in the 1930s, focuses on one family - the Lightburns - and is a rural tragedy about the disintegration of a community of Cumbrian hill-framers, due to the building of a reservoir. It won several awards, including the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Her 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.
Tickets for the event are free and available from Kendal library which can be contacted on 01539-773520.
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Notes
The picture shows Sarah Hall - should be credited to Martin Figura.
Please note: Cumbria County Council's media team telephone numbers have now changed.
Media enquiries to Mark Graham, Media Officer on 01228 226337.