Jaipur Literature Festival 2016
Just back from the 2016 Jaipur Literature Festival.
Here talking to Raghu Karnad about Family Secrets with Blake Morrison and Hannah Rothschild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myrv-KJ3m5o
And here talking to Chandrahas Choudhury about translating Proust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKfZLOFtTxU
Chandrahas has written a Dickensian novel about the adventures of a dwarf in a huge Indian city, called Arzee the Dwarf.
Other Festivals
Chasing Lost Time launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August 2014. Since then I have spoken at the Wigtown Book Festival 2014 and Words on the Water Festival 2015.
Farrar Straus and Giroux brought out the book in New York in March 2015 and I spoke at the Boston Atheneum in May 2015.
Then on to New York for a lively discussion at City of New York University Graduate Centre introduced by world expert on Proust, Andre Aciman, talking to Eric Banks.
And at the Albertine Book shop on 5th Avenue where I met the great Stonewall journalist and writer David Carter
Scotland Street Press
Scotland Street Press was set up 2015 in order to publish ANT, Collected Short Stories, War Serials and Selected Poems of CK Scott Moncrieff. In May 2015, 500 hardback copies were printed and so far 350 have sold.
Ant was featured on the back page of the TLS immediately after publication
The Press will carry on publishing small print runs of limited edition literary works, travel and memoir.
In December 2015, I finally published a slim paperback volume of Three Plays by Jean Findlay. These were written between 1994 and 2003.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910895016/ref=rdr_ext_sb_ti_hist_2
Also in December 2015 we published Glimpses of the Middle East – a memoir by Patience Moberly age 93, the wife to the British Ambassador to Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
final glimpses of middle east cover