Wednesday 6 July 2005, 19.00–20.00

Four highly esteemed novelists gather in the A Picture of Britain exhibition to read new writing, commissioned by BBC Radio 3's arts and ideas programme Night Waves, which reflects on the landscape of Britain. Beryl Bainbridge has been short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Novel Award for Every Man for Himself. Louis de Bernières’s fourth novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His most recent novel is Birds without Wings. Paul Farley was named one of the Poetry Book Society's 'next generation' of poets, and his book The Ice Age was short-listed for the TS Eliot Prize and won the Whitbread Poetry Award. David Lodge, well known for his trilogy of campus novels, is a successful playwright and screenwriter and has just published a new novel, Author, Author.

Tate Britain  In the Exhibition
£15 (£12 concessions), booking required

    

This event is related to the A Picture of Britain exhibition