Eastbourne's Underground theatre in Grove Road will host a book talk with Philip Reeve, author of the ‘Mortal Engines' series of sci-fi books, on Friday 12 March 2010.
The book talk has been arranged by East Sussex County Council's Schools Library and Museum Service.
Students from Eastbourne secondary schools and colleges – Bishop Bell, Cavendish, Eastbourne Technology College, Moira House, The Causeway and Willingdon – together with pupils from Lewes Priory, Robertsbridge and St Richard's in Bexhill will be attending the book talk, which will also include a book quiz and a book signing by the author.
Mortal Engines is set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by nuclear war that has become divided into vast, mobile cities, known as Traction Cities. Since they were first published in 2001, the books have grown in popularity, both in the UK and in the USA. Towards the end of last year, film industry magazines reported that Lord of the Rings Director, Peter Jackson was looking at film possibilities for the Mortal Engines series.
Philip Reeve, who grew up in Brighton and now lives in the Dartmoor area, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 2006 for his novel ‘A Darkling Plain' and the Carnegie Medal in 2008 for ‘Here Lies Arthur'.
The Mortal Engines books are: ‘Fever Crumb', ‘Mortal Engines', ‘Predator's Gold', ‘Infernal Devices' and ‘A Darkling Plain'. For more information, visit www.mortalengines.co.uk.
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