Bookfest: Readathon at Oxfam Marylebone shop
Joanna was delighted to join the team at Oxfam Marylebone Bookshop for a day-long readathon to launch Bookfest, with authors including Mark Haddon, Esther Freud, Adele Parks and Maggie O’Farrell all reading from a selection of works to a mixed audience of shoppers, volunteers and startled passers-by. Click here for more information.
The Melissa Nathan Award For Comedy Romance
The Melissa Nathan Award For Comedy Romance has been set up by Melissa’s husband, Andrew Saffron – honouring the criteria that Melissa drew up herself very shortly before she died. She wanted to encourage and reward writers who can combine in a novel the magical, life-enhancing elements of humour and love. Joanna has been delighted to be one of the judges since 2007, and congratulates the winner of the 2010 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance: Moonlight in Odessa by Janet Skeslien Charles (Bloomsbury)
Carol Muskoron Associate editor of www.allaboutyou.com– the online home of Good Housekeeping, House Beautiful, Prima, SHE, Country Living and Coast - interviews Joanna at the Melissa Nathan awards: Tip for new writers from Joanna Trollope
Redhill Rotary Club: 10th June 2010
Joanna writes: "The lunch - at the Reigate and Redhill Golf Club, was organised by the Redhill Rotarians, in aid of Shelter Boxes, a wonderful organisation which provides emergency kits for disaster areas in the world. In a sturdy green plastic crate is packed a light strong tent which houses ten people, with blankets, a small stove which runs on any flammable liquid, cooking utensils, tools, water purification tablets and toys. Rotary Clubs in the UK provide 65% of the Shelter Boxes sent out worldwide - 16,000 to Haiti after the earthquake which is shelter for 160,000 people - and we raised enough money to buy four more at least at the lunch alone. The kits cost £490 each and any reader who would like to contribute to further purchases, or to join the local Rotarians, should contact the Redhill Rotary Club."
Oxfam Bookfest: 3rd -17th July 2010
The Bookfest will be launched by a 24-hour "readathon" at Oxfam's flagship bookshop in Marylebone, London on 5th July. Joanna will be helping to launch the festival on that day. Joanna said: "It was wonderful to be involved in the launch of Oxfam's first Bookfest last year—especially as it raised so much for so many vital projects. And I'm more than pleased to be part of the launch of this year's Bookfest, too, a 24 hour rHeadathon, which we all hope will be an even greater success in spreading the word, and attracting support for all Oxfam's imaginative and effective work"700 Oxfam shops are taking part. Events include Jason Bradbury and Jeanette Winterson appearing at Leeds Carriage Works, Bob the Builder at Glasgow Concert Hall, and Eoin Colfer, Joss Ackland, Simon Singh and William Dalrymple at Bristol Old Vic. Duffy will appear in Didsbury.
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Imagined Lives Author Days: 3rd August 2010, Montecute House
Joanna will be at Montecute House on 3rd August at 2 pm to read her fictional biography.To find out more, visit: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-events/w-events-find_event.htm?c=1
or: http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/event-root/imagined-lives-mystery-portraits-from-the-national-portrait-gallery-c.1540-1640.php
Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival 2010: 19th -21st September 2010
On Sunday 19th September at 7 pm Joanna will be at the festival to talk about being a writer and her latest book, 'The Other Family'.
To find out more, visit: www.hamhighlitfest.com
Thursday 24th June 2010 11am-3pm - Adlestrop Literary Festival, Adlestrop Park, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 0YN
Sunday July 11th, - Romantic Novelists' Association Annual Conference. Joanna is the main speaker from 11.45 - 12.45.
Romantic Novelists Awards
Joanna Trollope and Maeve Binchy were given Lifetime Achievement Awards at the RNA’s Pure Passion Awards lunch, hosted by critic and TV personality Barry Norman. The Lifetime Achievement Award is the second award Joanna Trollope has received from the RNA having, thirty years ago, won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award for her novel Parson Harding’s Daughter (1980).
Joanna Trollope said: ‘I have such admiration and respect for the RNA, which must be one of the most professional and supportive of literary associations around, as all its aspiring writer members know, and of course, I was one of them, once…So my pleasure and gratitude are very heartfelt.’
RNA Chair Katie Fforde said, ‘Maeve Binchy and Joanna Trollope are household names, national treasures and some of the best storytellers of the last 50 years. It was our pleasure and privilege to honour them with Lifetime Achievement Awards.’
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
The Romantic Novelists' Association is 50 years old in 2010! To celebrate and commemorate the anniversary they have created Loves Me, Loves Me Not, Joanna joins other talented RNA members in this a wonderful book of short stories. It's a feast. It's a real treat. Everyone loves a good story - and these are really good. With a foreword by Katie Fforde and an afterword by Jill Mansell, all your favourite authors are in Loves Me, Loves Me Not.
Find out more by visiting www.mirabooks.co.uk and purchase your copy at Amazon.co.uk
