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SUMMARY:LITERATURE LIVE: Ian McGuire and Rupert Thomson
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DESCRIPTION:Ian McGuire grew up near Hull and studied at the University o
 f Manchester and the University of Virginia\, USA. He is co-founder and 
 co-director of the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. Hi
 s stories have been published in the Chicago Review\, Paris Review and e
 lsewhere. His first novel was the contemporary campus satire Incredible 
 Bodies. \n\nThis event is the launch of his second novel The North Water
 \, an historical novel set amidst the nineteenth-century arctic whaling 
 industry. The North Water has been described by Booker Prize winner Hila
 ry Mantel as ‘Brilliant. A fast-paced\, gripping story set in a world wh
 ere 'why?' is not a question and murder happens on a whim\; but where a 
 faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt and blood an
 d ice. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstructi
 on of a lost world'.\n\nIan McGuire will be joined in this event by Rupe
 rt Thomson\, who is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels\, incl
 uding The Insult\, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize 
 and chosen by David Bowie as one of his Top 100 Must-Read books of all t
 ime\, and Death of a Murderer\, which was shortlisted for the Costa Priz
 e. His memoir\, This Party’s Got to Stop\, won the Writers’ Guild Non Fi
 ction Book of the Year. His most recent novel\, Katherine Carlyle\, was 
 published in November 2015. He lives in London.\n\nTo book please visit 
 http://tinyurl.com/jcy425q or phone the Martin Harris Centre Box Office.
  
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:John Thaw Studio Theatre\, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Dr
 ama\, Manchester
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