{"id":2208,"date":"2016-11-23T17:28:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T17:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2016-11-23T17:28:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T17:28:15","slug":"nov-29-2016-waterstones-piccadilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"Nov 29 2016 Waterstones Piccadilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/events\/ireland-meets-flanders-a-world-editions-salon-with-aifric-campbell-annelies-verbeke-and-jan-vantoortelboom\/london-piccadilly\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland meets Flanders: aifric + Annelise Verbeke + Jan Vantoortelboom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join us for an evening of readings and conversation with celebrated World Editions authors Aifric Campbell, Annelies Verbeke and Jan Jan Vantoortelboom.\u00a0 Enjoy a glass of Belgian beer courtesy of Flanders House, London.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2211 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9781846687310-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"9781846687310\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9781846687310-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9781846687310-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9781846687310.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/>Aifric Campbell is an Irish writer based in the UK whose novel\u00a0On the Floor\u00a0was long listed for the Orange Prize 2012. Previous work includes novels\u00a0The Loss Adjustor\u00a0(2010) and\u00a0The Semantics of Murder\u00a0(2008), and Aifric\u2019s short stories have appeared inThe Book of Men, The Irish Times and New Irish Short Stories.<\/p>\n<p>Annelies Verbeke is an award winning novelist, short story writer, essayist and scriptwriter. Her debut novel S<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2209 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9789462380691-95x150.jpg\" alt=\"9789462380691\" width=\"95\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9789462380691-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9789462380691-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9789462380691.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/>leep! sold over 70,000 copies in the Flemish edition, and her work has been published in twenty-two countries. Her most recent novel Thirty Days is now available in English, translated by Liz Waters.\u00a0 Voted by Dutch readers as the best novel of 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2210 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9789462380714-94x150.jpg\" alt=\"9789462380714\" width=\"94\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9789462380714-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9789462380714-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9789462380714.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 94px) 100vw, 94px\" \/> Jan Vantoortelboom\u2019s second novel His Name is David has been translated into English from the Dutch by Vivien D Glass and will be launched as part of this evening\u2019s event.\u00a0It\u2019s the story of a young teacher in pre-world War I Flanders, attempting to evade his fate. Jan\u2019s writing has been compared to Pat Barker. Having studied in Dublin he counts Roddy Doyle among his influences.This evening will be chaired by Rosie Goldsmith &#8211; broadcaster, journalist and director of the European Literature Network.<b>\u00a33 tickets (redeemable against purchase of one of this evening\u2019s featured books) are available in store, by telephone 020 7851 2400 or by email<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:piccadilly@waterstones.com\">piccadilly@waterstones.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland meets Flanders: aifric + Annelise Verbeke + Jan Vantoortelboom Join us for an evening of readings and conversation with celebrated World Editions authors Aifric Campbell, Annelies Verbeke and Jan Jan Vantoortelboom.\u00a0 Enjoy a glass of Belgian beer courtesy of Flanders House, London. Aifric Campbell is an Irish writer based in the UK whose novel\u00a0On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}