Visit Palazzo Bembo in Rialto, Venice and see a new installation of images, word and music: Kintsugi on until 24 November 2019. A collaboration involving Anoma, Romesh and Sharon.
Hear REEF on Radio 4 Extra
Reef as abridged for Radio 4 Book at Bedtime in 1994 is being broadcast again on Radio 4 Extra over seven days. You can also hear all the episodes on-line. BBC.
Rethinking Civil Society
Check out Rethinking Civil Society for thoughts about what makes for a good society. A project at the University of York where I gave a talk last week. You cans scroll through dozens of contributions from Andrew Motion to Ken Loach.
Cricket & the Novel
The World Cup begins today, so how nice to see The Match recommended in The Times.
Reef turns 25
Reef was published in 1994. In January, this year, at the Fairway Galle Literary Festival we celebrated the book’s 25th anniversary with readings and a literary dinner organised by Widya Kumarasinghe at the Amangalla with chef Sagar Rajput. Here’s a glimpse including photographs from the FGLF Facebook page.
Galle Literary Festival 2019
The Fairway Galle Literary Festival starts on Wednesday 16th January. I’ll be doing four events on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. See the What’s On page for details. Hope to see some of you there!
