The Readers' Voice 2012A Third Convention for Readers and Reading Groups
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The Readers' Voice 2010
Wuthering Heights following the Convention Articles from The can be found here.
Authors read by Kingsley Amis Martin Amis Paul Auster Pat Barker Julian Barnes Saul Bellow Peter Carey Lewis Carroll Angela Carter Joseph Conrad Anita Desai Kiran Desai Charles Dickens JP Donleavy Ralph Ellison F Scott Fitzgerald E M Forster Elizabeth Grant Graham Greene Kate Grenville Mohsin Hamid Ernest Hemingway Alan Hollinghurst Khaled Hosseini Kazuo Ishiguro Franz Kafka Yasmina Khadra Barbara Kingsolver Matthew Kneale Hanif Kureishi DH Lawrence Harper Lee Stanislaw Lem Doris Lessing Marina Lewycka Amin Malouf Hilary Mantel Gabriel Garcia Marquez Carson McCullers Ian McEwan John McGahern Andrew Miller David Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov Irène Némirovsky Jeff Noon Ben Okri Orhan Pamuk Iain Pears Annie Proulx Philip Pullman Ian Rankin Philip Reeve Philip Roth Salman Rushdie Jean-Paul Sartre Gillian Slovo Wesley Stace John Steinbeck Kurt Vonnegut Paul Waters Evelyn Waugh Jeanette Winterson Virginia Wolf Richard Yates Marguerite Yourcenar For details go to the group's website |
_______________________ We are pleased to announce that The Readers' Voice Third Convention will take place in Spring, 2012 at Jesus College, Oxford For further details use the navigation bar on the left. E-mail any enquiries to BooksontheBroadmail@gmail.com THE SECOND CONVENTION HAS NOW TAKEN PLACE. HERE ARE SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DAY...  _______________________ WELCOME. We are very pleased to be running our Third Convention in 2012, focusing, as before, entirely on the interests of readers and reading groups. We have a whole new programme of talks, debates and other events lead by speakers whose expertise and passion for books we are extremely fortunate to have on board. We hope that you will find in this new event much that will interest and inform you, including ideas for sharing with others the benefits and pleasures of reading. The Convention will provide an opportunity for readers and reading groups
Organized by the Books on the Broad Reading Group
"Books on the Broad has developed a ‘novel’ approach to encouraging not just a love of reading, but also of communication, understanding, and friendship."
Alison Rowe,
Big Lottery Fund Head of South East region 2009 "We wanted to set up the convention in response to the literary festivals which focus on writers and celebrities rather than readers; we felt readers needed a voice as well. Now [...] they will have one."
Kate Wilson,
Coordinator The Readers' Voice 2009 " (..) great event last year in Oxford. A whole day focused on books, organised by a book group. The great news is they are doing it again this year. The event is not for profit - they just want to share the good things about reading books. "
Sarah Milford,
Bretherton Reading Group, Peterborough  |
