{"id":325,"date":"2015-04-04T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T11:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/?p=325"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:41","slug":"reading-with-armenian-embassy-at-london-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/2015\/04\/04\/reading-with-armenian-embassy-at-london-book-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading with Armenian Embassy at London Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2015\/04\/FINAL-COVER-ES.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-326\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2015\/04\/FINAL-COVER-ES-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"9781907773273frcvr.indd\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2015\/04\/FINAL-COVER-ES-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2015\/04\/FINAL-COVER-ES.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be reading from my novel, <em>Entertaining Strangers <\/em>(Salt, 2012), at the pavilion of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uk.mfa.am\/en\/\">Armenian Embassy<\/a> at the London Book Fair, in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armenianinstitute.org.uk\/\">Armenian Institute<\/a>. The reading will take place at midday on Thursday 16 April 2015. You can see more details\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonbookfair.co.uk\/en\/find-exhibitors\/Documents\/?coId=48955\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The novel is set mainly in the U.K. in 1997, but in a crucial and climactic chapter towards the end, it flashes back to the traumatic experience of a young Armenian girl in 1922, at the time of\u00a0the Great Fire of Smyrna. You can read more about the novel <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanptaylor.co.uk\/entertaining-strangers\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading! Jonathan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be reading from my novel, Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012), at the pavilion of the\u00a0Armenian Embassy at the London Book Fair, in conjunction with the Armenian Institute. The reading will take place at midday on Thursday 16 April 2015. You can see more details\u00a0here. The novel is set mainly in the U.K. in 1997, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,40,6,5],"tags":[42,43,44],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-novel","category-public-events","category-public-lectures-2","tag-armenian-embassy","tag-armenian-institute","tag-london-book-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}