Award-winning Cumbrian-born author Sarah Hall and inspirational Pakistani-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker are the first special guests announced for a trilogy of Shared Reading events celebrating Wirral Borough of Culture 2024. National charity The Reader is hosting a trilogy of Shared Reading events with special guest writers to celebrate Wirral Borough of Culture 2024. Sarah Hall is the first author to join the organisation for an afternoon of Shared Reading at Birkenhead Central Library on Tuesday August 27, 12.
45pm - 4pm, to talk about her fifth novel, The Wolf Border. This award-winning story explores environmental and human concerns about rewilding wolves in the Lake District, rebirth and renewal. The events are a chance to enjoy Shared Reading with a difference.
Shared Reading differs from conventional book groups in that, in most groups, people read a book and come together to talk about it. In Shared Reading The Reader uses stories and poems to help people connect and share thoughts, feelings and experiences. This time, though, the author will join the group to hear people’s responses and answer questions.
There is no pressure to talk or read aloud. Sarah has written short fiction and novels including The Carhullan Army, How to Paint a Dead Man and The Electric Michelangelo. Twice nominated for the Man Booker Prize, she is the award-winning author of six novels and three short-story collections: The Beautiful Indifference, which won the Edge Hill and Portico prize.