The Child that Books Built: An Hour with Francis Spufford
Christchurch Writer's Festival 2008, Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 7pm
Francis Spufford discusses The Child that Books Built.
An Hour with Francis Spufford
English writer Francis Spufford has delighted readers with The Child that Books Built, his memoir of a childhood as a compulsive reader.. His other works include a cultural history of the British obsession with polar exploring, I May Be Some Time, and Backroom Boys, a portrait of de-industrialisation through the experience of engineers. He has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Prize and the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
He talks about his work with children’s writer Bill Nagelkerke. (joannasephine)… (more)
An Hour with Francis Spufford
English writer Francis Spufford has delighted readers with The Child that Books Built, his memoir of a childhood as a compulsive reader.. His other works include a cultural history of the British obsession with polar exploring, I May Be Some Time, and Backroom Boys, a portrait of de-industrialisation through the experience of engineers. He has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Prize and the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
He talks about his work with children’s writer Bill Nagelkerke. (joannasephine)… (more)
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