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Love Reading? Make a Date on World Book Night

It’s World Book Night this Thursday, and the third event to be held at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln promises to be the best and biggest yet.

BGU has issued the reading list of 20 books and is inviting members of the local community to join in with reading groups, seminars, and conversations led by staff and students on Thursday 23rd April 2015.

The event will also celebrate two literary anniversaries: it is 150 years since the publication of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and 100 years since the publication of TS Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.

World Book Night at BGU will take place in the Skinner Building and the programme is as follows:

2:30pm           Welcome to World Book Night 2015
3pm                Battle of the Books: From Better to Best
3.50pm:          Tea, cakes and (free) books!
4.15pm:          With Alice in Wonderland
5.15pm:          “That is not what I meant at all” –
                        A Celebration of T S Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

“This is an occasion that we feel is at the core of what we do because it is about sharing our love of reading and inspiring a love for reading,” said Claudia Capancioni, organiser of the event and Senior Lecturer in English at Bishop Grosseteste University.

“The event open to everyone who would like to share their likings, dislikings, favourite books and protagonists, authors and illustrators, or to listen to others talking about their joy of reading.

“The list has something for everyone and is particularly good at suggesting quick reads, as well as texts that volunteers believe are page-turners, or books to be passed on.

“There are titles for young readers, lovers of adventure stories, detective fiction and fantasy. It includes poetry, historical novels, romance, fictional and non-fictional stories about challenging human experiences, as well as light-hearted tales.”

On 23rd April 2015, UNESCO International Day of the Book and Shakespeare’s birthday, 250,000 specially printed World Book Night titles will be given away for free by a network of volunteer reading enthusiasts and institutions around the UK.

The aim is to reach the 35% of the population who, for whatever reason, don’t read for pleasure.

Since it began in 2011, World Book Night has created an extraordinary group of 56,000 volunteers and has given books away to more than 2.25 million people.

For more information send an email to claudia.capancioni@bishopg.ac.uk.

Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the event.

The 20 titles for 2015 are:

After the Fall by Charity Norman
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M C Beaton
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Chickenfeed by Minette Walters (Quick Read)
Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts by Mary Gibson
Dead Man Talking by Roddy Doyle (Quick Read)
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy, Neil Astley (ed)
Honour by Elif Shafak
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante
Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle
Skellig by David Almond
Spring Tide by Cilla and Rolf Börjlind
Street Cat Bob by James Bowen (Quick Read)
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Moaning of Life by Karl Pilkington
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman

Notes to editors:
Bishop Grosseteste University was established in January 1862 and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2012.
• It is an independent higher education institution based in Lincoln which awards its own undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
• It changed its name from Bishop Grosseteste University College to Bishop Grosseteste University in November 2012.
World Book Night began in 2011 as a unique collaboration between publishers, booksellers, librarians, writers and individual members of the public, all of whom are committed to sharing their love of books and reading with the wider world, improving literacy levels and changing lives through the giving away of specially printed books.
• In the UK over half of adults of working age have literacy levels below the level of a good GCSE, while 16% are at or below that of an 11-year-old. Research has proved that sparking a desire to read can have profound effects on literacy, not to mention employability, social interaction, happiness and well-being.

For media information please contact:
Jez Ashberry
Shooting Star PR
01522 528540
07780 735071
jez@weareshootingstar.co.uk
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