The long-awaited TV adaptation of Sarah Waters' The Night Watch will be broadcast in July, with the confirmed date for the first episode to be announced imminently.
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Claire Foy and Anna Maxwell Martin, the series is already generating a huge amount of coverage with interviews with the cast confirmed in Time Out, The Daily Mail, Express on Saturday, The Observer, Independent on Saturday, The Sun, The Mirror and almost all weekly TV listings magazines. Sarah herself will be interviewed by The Telegraph as well as writing a piece for the Radio Times.
The tie-in edition to the series is out now.
Sarah Waters will be in Greece next month, at the Outview International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
As part of the festival programme, there will be a screening of the BBC TV adaptation of Tipping the Velvet on 1st June at 8.30pm which Sarah will be introducing , as well as taking part in a Q&A session afterwards.
And she will be doing the same for a screening of Fingersmith the following night, 2nd June also at 8.30pm.
For more information see here: www.outview.gr.
Saturday 5th March saw nearly 20,000 "givers" hand out one million free books for the first ever World Book Night (WBN)—an event launched last October with the aim of raising the profile of books nationally.
The 20,000 givers and members of the public took take part in events, parties and celebrations across the UK and Ireland, with many libraries and bookshops extending their opening times.
One of the book's being given away was Sarah Waters' Fingersmith, and Sarah was at the launch event at Trafalgar Square, where book lovers gatherered in their thousands to listen many of the authors on the list read aloud from their work and those of other writers.
A long list of high-profile figures from publishing, media and the arts leant their support to this ambitious initiative by becoming Patrons of World Book Night including Damon Albarn, Dave Eggers, Colin Firth, David Gilmour, Antony Gormley, Seamus Heaney, Damien Hirst, Nigella Lawson, Mary Portas, J.K. Rowling and Tilda Swinton.
World Book Night encourages givers to pass the books on to others who either may be reluctant readers or who are part of communities with less access to books, bookshops and libraries. 960,000 books will be distributed by givers and a further 40,000 will be distributed by WBN to people who might not otherwise be able to participate.
…and Sarah Waters' Fingersmith is part of this audacious and ambitious book adventure.
20,000 passionate book lovers will give away 1,000,000 books on the inaugural World Book Night.
The countdown begins. World Book Night will take place on Saturday 5 March 2011 and will be broadcast in partnership with BBC Two. This dynamic and unprecedented industry-wide initiative to celebrate adult books and reading will see one million free books given away on World Book Night by 20,000 passionate readers to other members of the public across the UK and Ireland. World Book Night will take place two days after World Book Day, the established nationwide reading campaign.
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