Viv’s Comments (group member since Dec 10, 2014)

Viv’s comments from the The Big Bath Read 2015 group.

by the way -- the programme is here if you want to explore…

http://bathfestivals.org.uk/literature/

As our ticket launch kicks off tomorrow, Monday 19 Jan, at 10.30am next to the Abbey (drop in to the Box Office if you're in Bath - I'll be there), I'm asking a simple question: what books do you want to know more about on our programme? Alastair Campbell's new book on winning hearts, minds and elections? How about a sneak preview of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant, which I have only just received and started to read…? Or more on Sarah Churchwell's brilliant exploration of the world of The Great Gatsby - Careless People, just added to our bookshelf below? Before I kick off a discussion of our Big Bath Read, Small Wars by Sadie Jones, let me know if there's anything else I can tell you more about.

Viv Groskop, Artistic Director, Independent Bath Literature Festival

As our programme launches this week, we're asking readers to make a note in their diaries: all the book group dates for early March 2015 are listed here: http://bathfestivals.org.uk/literatur...
And Sadie Jones will be talking to me on Sunday 8 March in the Guildhall, Bath, at 11am.

Has anyone in this group already discovered Sadie jones? Early thoughts on this book choice? I wanted to encourage people to discover her work ahead of the BBC1 adaptation of The Outcast (which won the Costa Prize), coming to our TV screens in April.