Episode #15 - Hallelulujah! And Matthew Parris’s Geniuses

How to sing your way to Christmas in isolation and Matthew Parris talks about his new book on trauma and genius We’re joining: The Self-Isolation Choir and their Christmas at Home Concert on 20 th December https://www.theselfisolationchoir.com We’re reading Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma, by Matthew Parris, published by Profile Books, £16.99 We’re going online to The Stratford Literary Winter Weekend Festival Friday 20 th November to Wednesday 25 th November Matthew Parris talks about his book at 8pm Friday 20th November (available until 11pm 25th November) stratlitfest.co.uk. We’re watching: A one-time live reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by Jenny Hall and starring Geraldine James and Rebecca Hall November 19 th at 7.30 on Zoom Tickets from http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-tempest-shake-festival We’re buying Portraits of NHS Heroes compiled by Tom Croft, published by Bloomsbury, £25 All royalties and £2.50 of every sale goes to NHS Charities Together  https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/portraits-for-nhs-heroes-9781448218004/  Books are My Bag Reader Awards Winners Reader’s Choice Book of the Year : Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press) Fiction: The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton, Raven Books, Bloomsbury Non-Fiction: by Dara McAnulty (Little Toller Books) Poetry: Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright: An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year by Britta Teckentrup and Fiona Waters (Nosy Crow) Young Adult Fiction: Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury) Children’s Fiction: The Highland Falcon Thief by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman, illustrated by Elisa Paganelli (Macmillan Children’s Books) Breakthrough Author: Jean Menzies author of Greek Myths (DK) Edited and Produced by Alex Graham