{"id":206,"date":"2014-12-05T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T10:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=206"},"modified":"2014-12-05T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:04:48","slug":"london-literati-come-to-stoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/12\/05\/london-literati-come-to-stoke\/","title":{"rendered":"London literati come to Stoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two novelists from the Big Smoke have recently given readings in Staffordshire. On 24<sup>th<\/sup> November Lottie Moggach read from <em>Kiss Me First<\/em> at the Keele Writing group.\u00a0Moggach&#8217;s novel, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Guardian First Book Award, has been dubbed \u2018a Facebook thriller&#8217; and centers around a case of online identity assumed by a high-functioning autistic heroine. On 3rd December, Sathnam Sanghera discussed his novel, <em>Marriage Material<\/em>, as guest of honour at the Arnold Bennett Society annual Literary Luncheon held in Hartshill.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Marriage Material<\/em>, also published 2013 and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, is set the Sikh community of Wolverhampton and is based loosely on one of Bennett\u2019s best-known works, <em>The Old Wives Tale<\/em>. Apparently Moggach, fellow journalist and friend, was responsible for introducing Sanghera to Bennett\u2019s novel \u2013 it\u2019s a small world!<\/p>\n<p>For more on the writers see their websites: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sathnam.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sathnam.com\/ <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lottiemoggach.com\/\">http:\/\/www.lottiemoggach.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two novelists from the Big Smoke have recently given readings in Staffordshire. On 24th November Lottie Moggach read from Kiss Me First at the Keele Writing group.\u00a0Moggach&#8217;s novel, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Guardian First Book Award, has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/12\/05\/london-literati-come-to-stoke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3710],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}