Event Date:
13th May 2008
In our Meet the Author events, we’ve hosted several big names – Jodi Picoult, Joanna Trollope,
Salley Vickers, Alexander McCall Smith, Alice Sebold and Louis de
Bernieres to date – but it was always our intention to bring new talent to
Winchester. Which is why we invited Stefan Merrill Block to be our guest, his only event outside London.
It would seem Stefan charmed our audience:
Hello Guy
I just wanted to say how enjoyable the talk from Stefan was last night, he was a really engaging character and I am really looking forward to reading his book.
Thanks again for organising some really great events. Looking forward to the next one.
Kind regards,
Karen Marsh
Hello Guy
What a success last night was - and what a charming lad Stefan is! I think he won over a few hearts with that smile. I missed a trick - when he made that comment about reading groups being better than sex, I should have mentioned we've got a meeting this Thursday.... The other two from our
group were too busy swooning to make the connection, as well!
Thanks,
Vivienne Jarvis
And his publicist was very complimentary, too:
Dear Guy
I wanted to email you to say THANK YOU for such an amazing evening. It was absolutely perfect, and we all left for London absolutely buzzing - Stefan had a great time, and he said how it out did so many of his American events. It was wonderful to have such support for a debut author, and thank you to you and all the newbooks people and readers for making the event such a success. He also commented on how good the audience questions were (not to mention yours too!)
Thanks again- I’ve come back to Faber declaring that Guy Pringle does the best events, and we all look forward to working together more in the future!
All best wishes,
Becky
Read on for 3 of our reviewers’ thoughts on his debut novel The Story of Forgetting, which tackles a thought provoking theme - Alzheimer's - that potentially affects all our lives.
See also Stefan's article on the Guardian website. There is also a Story of Forgetting animation on YouTube.