Georges Perec
LIFE A USER’S MANUAL
“One of the great novels of the century" TIAS‘
“A masterpiece, a big, parodic, totally entertaining book" Guardian
“A transcendent achievement . . . a book of world class" Daily Plegraph
“A novel as carefully patterned as Joyce's Ultrrev”
London Review of Books
Harvill Paperbacks £4.95
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or The Memory of Childhood Translated by David Bellos
“Brilliant” The Literary Review
Collins Harvill £10.95
New Book: St Kilda
Launch, a/v presentation, signing session
22 Oct 7pm Royal Scottish Museum, Chambers St, EDINBURGH.
A/v presentations with signing sessions
23 Oct 6.30pm Inverdruie Visitor Centre, AVIEMORE; 24 Oct 7pm John Smith Booksellers, GLASGOW;
25 Oct 7.30pm ABERDEEN Art Gallery;
26 Oct 8pm The Ceilidh Place, ULLAPOOL;
27 Oct 7.30pm Caledonian Hotel, INVERNESS;
28 Oct 7.30pm Alexandra Hotel, FORT WILLIAM;
29 Oct 2—3pm Melven’s Bookshop, PERTH (no a/v); 31 Oct 7pm EDINBURGH Bookshop;
1 Nov 7pm Waterstones, PERTH;
2 Nov 7.30pm Civic Centre, EAST KILBRIDE;
3 Nov 7.30pm Blacklocks, DUMFRIES;
4 Nov 7.30pm PAISLEY Town Hall;
5 Nov 10.30am—noon Jenners, EDINBURGH (no a/v).
60 The List 28 Oct - 10 Nov 1988
Booksellers since 1’97
Thursday 27 October DOUGLAS DUNN reading from his new collection of poems .\'orthlight 7pm for 7.30pm
Wine will be served
Sunday 30 October LIVE MUSIC to accompany the party to launch the Grove (‘oncise Dictionary offllusic 12 . 30—2 . 30pm
Monday 31 October MICHAEL MUNRO & BILLY KAY the authors of The Patter, Another Blast and Scots: The Mither Tongue examine the Scots language and local dialects 7pm for 7.30pm Wine will be served
Tuesday 1 November RALPH STEADMAN talking and sketching to mark the launch of his new book The Big [Am 7pm for 7.30pm Wine will be served
Wednesday 2 November ROY LAIDLAW & JOHN RUTHERFORD Party to launch the new book by the Scottish Internationalists Rugby Partnership 7pm for 7.30pm Wine will be served
Thursday 3 November JOAN LINGARD & JANETTE WALKINSHAW reading from their new collection of short stories I Can Sing. Dance. Rollers/(ate 7pm for 7.30pm Wine will be served
Wednesday") November 1988 AUTUMN PREVIEW PARTY enjoy a glass ofwine and meet our guest Michael Holroyd, biographer of George Bernard Shaw 7pm for 7.30pm Wine will be served
50 Gordon Street, Glasgow Telephone: Glasgow 22] 0.262
9am—8pm M onday—Friday 9am—5 . 30pm Saturday IZnoon—Spm Sundays; with lit'emusic1—2pm