Faber & Faber

Thursday 9 October to Sunday 12 October 2008

Shakespeare and Company
37 Rue de la Bûcherie
75005 Paris

R.E.S.P.E.C.T
or
How to Tell a Story Without Telling Your Readers What to Think

When do you need to tell a story and when do you let it tell itself?
How far can you trust your readers to understand what is left unspoken?
What is gained - and what is lost - by describing characters in the flesh?

Set over four days in the charming upstairs library of the legendary Left Bank Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, Tobias Hill gives the inaugural Faber Academy course, an in-depth workshop for those beginning or in the process of writing a novel. In addition, the course will contain a unique two-part seminar on the importance of authenticity and voice in fiction by multi prize-winning novelist, Jeanette Winterson (more).

Participants will each receive a complimentary Moleskine Paris City Notebook.

Course cost: £500 / €630 (price inclusive of VAT)

The course includes:

•    4 days intensive tuition by Tobias Hill (10am-5pm)
•    A two-part seminar on authenticity and voice in fiction by Jeanette Winterson
•    A daily Parisian lunch
•    Regular coffee breaks
•    Optional evening activities arranged by Sylvia Whitman
•    A handy course pack including Paris recommendations
•    A complimentary Moleskine Paris City Notebook
•    An advanced reading copy of Tobias Hill’s new novel, The Hidden
•    A special discount off Faber books purchased at www.faber.co.uk
•    A Friday night reading by Tobias Hill in the Shakespeare bookshop followed by a glass of wine

About the Tutors

Tobias Hill is the hugely acclaimed writer of three previous novels, Underground (1999), The Love of Stones (2001) and The Cryptographer (2003), as well as three award-winning collections of poetry and Skin, a collection of short stories, which won the 1998 PEN/Macmillan Award for Fiction. Born in London in 1970, Tobias Hill has won many awards for his writing and was made the inaugural resident poet at London Zoo in 1998. He is also the Royal Society of Literature Fellow at Sussex University. His new novel, The Hidden, will be published by Faber in January 2009. 

Jeanette Winterson OBE, whose writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the E. M. Forster Award, is the author of some of the most purely imaginative and pleasurable novels of recent times, from Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit to her first book for children, Tanglewreck. She is also the author of the essays Art Objects.

About Shakespeare and Company

The first incarnation of Shakespeare and Company was run by Sylvia Beach and was the centre for American and British writers in Paris during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, including Hemingway and Joyce. Most notably, it was first to publish Ulysses. Reopened in 1951 by George Whitman, the shop became popular in the 50s and 60s with writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Anäis Nin, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, James Baldwin and Richard Wright.

While still an alluring presence at 94, George has now handed over the reigns to his 27-year-old daughter, Sylvia, who is committed to fostering the literary life in Paris, notably through regular readings and literary festivals. (more)

To make a booking:

Contact Patrick on either patrickk@faber.co.uk or telephone +44 (0) 207 465 7682.

Alternatively, write to:

Patrick Keogh
Faber and Faber Ltd
3 Queen Square
London WC1N 3AU

Places are strictly limited, so book soon to avoid disappointment.