Reading for Wellbeing: TRO’s Second National Conference
Written by stickyeyes, 21st March 2011
Reading for Wellbeing
17th May 2011
Floral Pavilion, New Brighton, Wirral, CH45 2JS
“Get Into Reading is the only consistent thing in my life. It’s been a lifesaver.”
With very special guests, from the USA:
- Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist for Gilead and Orange prize winner for Home, who will talk about the personal impact of reading on her life
- Professor Maryanne Wolf, internationally acclaimed author of Proust and The Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain will talk on the ‘Pleasures and Perils of an Evolving Reading Brain’.
Click here for all the details.
To book your place, please contact Claire Speer: clairespeer@thereader.org.uk / 0151 794 2830.
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