Plectrum - The Cultural Pick Live Edition: Mustered No. 4

Event information

Springing forth with an evening of live music, author readings and talks, poetry, spoken word, and more!

7.30pm in the upstairs acoustic room at The Betsey Trotwood

LOUISA YOUNG talking about love and death and maxillofacial reconstructive surgery in WWI, the themes of her best-selling, award-winning, critically acclaimed novel, My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You (Harper Collins, 2011): nominated for the Impac Award 2013; Richard & Judy Book Club Choice 2012; Winner of the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year (2011); shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize (2011), the Galaxy Book of the Year (2011), and the Costa Novel of the Year (2011).

‘A masterly storyteller’ - Washington Post, ‘Compelling and deeply moving’ - The Observer, ‘Divine’ - The Times, ‘Unmissable’ – Marie-Claire

www.louisayoung.co.uk

TRAVIS ELBOROUGH, author, broadcaster, photographer, whose latest book is the critically acclaimed, London Bridge in America: The True Story of a Transatlantic Crossing (Jonathan Cape, 2013). In words, pictures, and music he will be telling the extraordinary story of the bridge’s journey from the River Thames to the Arizona desert.

‘On the evidence of London Bridge in America, it would probably be justifiable now to proclaim Elborough one of Britain’s finest pop cultural historians’ - The Guardian

Traviselborough.co.uk

SASKIA VOGEL, writer from L.A. and Granta magazine’s publicist, reading Ways of Submissions, a vignette essay about hair, corsetry and frottage, originally published by the White Review, and taken from her book-in-progress, I am a Pornographer.

Saskiavogel.com

TOM NANCOLLAS, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, playing an acoustic set of English cafe blues and Gloucestershire dirges. He is currently writing a radio play about a ‘lawless and desperate’ village in early 20th century England.

DJ for the evening: MAX DÉCHARNÉ playing songs for swinging loafers. Musican, singer-songwriter (Gallon Drunk, The Flaming Stars), author - including his latest book, Capital Crimes: Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder (Random House, 2012).
'His decision is vinyl'

Evening hosted by, GUY SANGSTER ADAMS, editor of Plectrum-The Cultural Pick, performing Cuban-heeled flights of fancy and absurdist cultural observations in verse and spoken word.

More details from Plectrum-The Cultural Pick: www.theculturalpick.com/events