The Reading Agency in partnership with Culture24 has
brokered appearances by four top writers to talk about their work at leading
cultural venues, as part of the 2012 Museums at Night Festival (18-20 May
2012).
• 18 May: Man
Booker prize nominated novelist Jon McGregor will be at
Dundee Discovery Point. He will use photos, videos, maps,
a suitcase full of props and mysterious works from his latest book, This Isn't
the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, for a short story
performance.
• 18 May: Craig
Taylor, whose book Londoners: The Days And Nights Of London Now captures the thoughts and feelings of hundreds
of the capital’s inhabitants, will be doing a reading at the London Transport
Museum.
• 18 May: Hugh
Barker, whose Hedge Britannia celebrates the glory of
the hedge, will be at Lyme Regis Museum discussing how we
became a nation of gardeners.
• 19 May:
Veteran war reporter, ITN news anchorman and Afghanistan
expert Sandy Gall will be at Surgeons' Hall Museum,
Edinburgh to talk about his book War Against The Taliban: Why It All Went Wrong
In Afghanistan.
Museums at Night is the annual after-hours celebration of
arts, culture and heritage – when hundreds of museums, galleries, libraries,
archives and heritage sites open their doors for special evening events. (www.museumsatnight.org.uk).
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