Ali Smith (The Accidental) in conversation with Jackie Kay
Booker Prize Foundation One Book Challenge
Location: Northern Stage
Time/Date: 5th November 2013, 19:00
Ali Smith’s first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. She is also the author of Like (1997); Other Stories and Other Stories (1999); Hotel World (2001), which won the Encore Award, the East England Arts Award of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002; The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003); The Accidental (2005), which won the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize; and The First Person and Other Stories (2008). Her latest publication is Shire (2013) with illustrations by Sarah Wood.
The Accidental is a tour de force of literary improvisation that explores the nature of truth, the role of chance, and the transformative power of storytelling. The novel is profound, playful, and exhilaratingly inventive, and transfixes us with a portrait of a family unravelled by a mysterious visitor.
‘A beguiling page-turner… a brilliant creation. To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last.’ Independent
This event is the culmination of the ‘One Book’ reading challenge designed to encourage students to appreciate and engage with the very best contemporary literary fiction, regardless of their chosen field of study. It is the fourth year that Newcastle University has run this project in conjunction with The Booker Prize Foundation. Full details: www.facebook.com/onebookbookernewcastleuniversity
Tickets for this event are priced at £6/£4 (concessions) and are FREE for Newcastle University students. You can find tickets for all of our events at our webstore. Alternatively, please contact Melanie Birch for further details: Melanie.Birch@ncl.ac.uk, 0191 222 7619.Published: 5th September 2013