Winter Salon, Peirene Press

If outstanding literature, great company and excellent wine sound like the components of your perfect evening, then you will love Peirene Press ' glamorous literary salon evenings. The award-winning boutique publishing house, which specialises in contemporary European novellas in English translation, and selects only titles that are best-selling or award-winning in their native countries, seeks to extend and add another dimension to the reading experience.

The Winter Salon on 7 December features the British poet and writer Ruth Padel . Having published eight poetry collections, a novel, and eight non-fiction works, including three on reading poetry, Padel will present her latest book, The Mara Crossing . This mixed-genre piece is a meditation on migration, prose and poetry. We can't wait to hear this compelling work straight from the author's mouth.

Tickets:   £12 for Peirene 2013 Subscribers,  £20 for non-Peirene Subscribers

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