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Doors 7pm. Mix of standing and seating

Louis de Bernières

"Captain Corelli swaps mandolin for guitar.The international best-selling author Louis de Bernières has combined words with music in a new project.The Norfolk-based author, most famous for 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' sings beautifully written songs (as you'd expect!) and spins a terrific yarn or two while he's at it.Louis, who lives in Norfolk, published his first novel in 1990 and was selected by Granta magazine as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Since then he has become well known internationally as a writer and his sixth novel, Birds Without Wings, came out in 2004. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994), won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Novel. A Partisan's Daughter 2008, was short-listed for the Costa Novel Award. He continues to write acclaimed novels and volumes of poetry.As well as writing, he plays the flute, mandolin, clarinet and guitar. He was born in London in 1954.

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Marshall Terrace, 38 Sunderland Road,

Durham,

County Durham,

England,

DH1 2HX.