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Fraser, Lady Antonia

 
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Synopsis

The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize

A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to the Give a Book charity

In this delightful collection forty-three acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. Original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Gray, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend and Jeanette Winterson, while this new edition includes essays from five new writers, Emily Berry, Kamila Shamsie, Rory Stewart, Katie Waldegrave and Tom Wells.

Royalties generated from this project will go to Give a Book, www.giveabook.org.uk, a charity set up in 2011 that seeks to get books to places where they will be of particular benefit. Give a Book works in conjunction with Age UK, Prison Reading Groups, Maggie's Centres, which help people affected by cancer, and various schools and literacy projects, such as Beanstalk, where many pupils have never had a book of their own in their lives.

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À propos de l'auteur

Antonia Fraser is an award-winning historian and biographer, one of the most successful female non-fiction writers of our time. Her most recent books are Marie Antoinette, Love and Louis XIV, and a memoir of her husband Harold Pinter, Must You Go?

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9781632862280: The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  163286228X ISBN 13 :  9781632862280
Editeur : BLOOMSBURY, 2015
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