The London based charity Booktrust has been getting the 2008 instalment of their Get London Reading campaign underway this week. The campaign, designed - as its name suggests - to promote reading in the capital, is a biannual cluster of workshops, readings, debates and general bookish celebrations in the weeks leading up to the London Book Fair.
Highlights this year include Sam Leith interviewing Louis de Bernieres, readings and question-and-answer sessions with Orange prize nominees Deborah Moggach and Charlotte Mendelson, an in-depth tour of Shoreditch with local resident Dan Cruikshank, and a "literary high tea", consisting of short stories and scones in the Edwardian splendour of a Bloomsbury hotel.
Get London Reading began in 2004 as one a series of literacy campaigning events organised by Booktrust, which also administer the Orange prize and the John Llewllyn Rhys prize.
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