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International Best-selling Author Sarah Waters at the Michael Croft Theatre Wednesday 1st October


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Dulwich Books of West Dulwich in association with Alleyn's School present a literary evening with best-selling, award-winning author Sarah Waters to celebrate the publication of her exquisite new novel, 'The Paying Guests.'


'The Paying Guests' is a stunning novel in which Sarah Waters captures the despondent feeling around London after the war. With an intense love story and four superbly developed characters, 'The Paying Guests' will be the major literary book of 2014.


Sarah Waters is the bestselling author of 'Tipping the Velvet,' 'Fingersmith,' 'Affinity,' 'The Night Watch' and 'The Little Stranger.' She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize, and won the South Bank Show Award for Literature.


"A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change" - The Guardian


"Waters' page-turning prose conceals great subtlety. Acutely sensitive to social nuance, she keeps us constantly alert . . . From a novelist who has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, this is a winner" - Intelligent Life


Interviewing Sarah will be author and arts journalist, John O?Connell.


This event will take place at 7.30 on Wednesday 1st October 2014 at The Michael Croft Theatre, Alleyn's School, Townley Road, East Dulwich SE22 8SU.


Tickets for this event are priced at ?10 (?8 under 18 concessions) and are available from http://mct.alleyns.org.uk/page.aspx?id=127 or from

Dulwich Books, 6 Croxted Rd, London SE21 8SW. Tel: 020 8670 1920. Email [email protected]


For information of other forthcoming events including: Antony Beevor, David Mitchell, Tracy Chevalier and Laura Bates visit www.dulwichbooks.co.uk.

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This is event is now exactly a week away, a handful of tickets are still available from the bookshop and online from http://mct.alleyns.org.uk/page.aspx?id=127.


?A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change? ? Guardian


?A masterpiece of social unease . . . It isn't so much the plot that makes you read on - the novel's armature is a comparatively uncomplicated suspense narrative but barnacled to it is an astonishing accretion of detail . . . A virtuoso feet of storytelling? - Evening Standard


?The novel's remarkable depth of field - from its class-ridden background to its individuals' peccadilloes - is sharply portrayed by an author writing at her best. Waters's 20-20 vision perceives the interior world of her characters with rare acuity in a prose style so smooth it pours down the page in a book to be prized? - Scotland on Sunday

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