We are happy to invite you to meet the contemporary British author, Tobias Hill
on Wednesday, 12 November at 17.00 at the Information and Learning Centre, British Council  

Poet and novelist Tobias Hill lives in London. He read English at Sussex University and spent two years teaching in Japan. He has also worked as rock critic for the Sunday Telegraph newspaper in London and as the poetry editor of the Richmond Review.

He is the author of the collections of poetry Year of the Dog (1995), Midnight in the City of Clocks (1996), influenced by his experiences living in Japan, and Zoo (1998). He is also the author of an acclaimed collection of short stories, Skin (1997), which won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award.

His fiction includes three novels (Underground (1999), The Love of Stones (2001), The Cryptographer (2003). The second novel The Love of Stones has been published in seven languages and in 11 countries and is being developed as a film by Granada Films.

To find out more information on Tobias Hill go to

http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth242

http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/PBS/pbs_hill_tobias.asp

http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/archives/places/tobias/

QUICK READS PROJECT

• You are above 17…
• You know English well but can’t start reading fiction…
• You love reading but have no time for big books…
• You wish you had someone to discuss the books with…

Then Quick Reads – a new reader development project is for you! Quick Reads are exciting, short, fast-paced books by leading, bestselling authors, specifically written for emergent readers and adult learners.  Quick Reads have something for everyone.

Having registered for participation in this project you will get involved in all our competitions and monthly discussions. By the end of the project you will get used to reading for pleasure, develop your reading and communication skills and more over find lots of friends sharing your feelings.  

Registration for Quick Reads will start from 15 September 2008.

For more information please contact the librarians or send your questions to Gulnaz.Orynbekkyzy@kz.britishcouncil.org.

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