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Audible and Cityread get the capital and listening

Audible announced as sponsor of Cityread London 2016

[LONDON, 3 March 2016]: Audible, the world’s leading provider of spoken audio entertainment, has teamed up with Cityread London to get the capital listening to this year’s featured , Ten Days by Gillian Slovo (Canongate) released on 3 March in print and audio.

This year’s Cityread features a digital storytelling installation, with sound and stories provided by Audible in The Gallery at Foyles, , a gallery curated and managed by Futurecity. The installation will allow visitors to immerse themselves in Ten Days, the gripping political thriller, by listening to audio excerpts of key moments from the book, brought to life by narrator Joe Jameson. “Stories from the City” opens at Foyles on 31 March and runs till 7 May. There will also be smaller mobile installations which will tour London’s .

“Stories from the City” sees the creation of a ‘police control centre’ within The Gallery at Foyles bookshop’s central London gallery space where visitors can interact with extracts taken from the first 72 hours of the Ten Days . Content is ‘triggered’ by placing evidence relating to each scene onto a control desk panel, generating audio and visual cues. A second area of the installation, modelled in part on the wooden hoardings that covered up broken shop windows in the 2011 London riots, will encourage visitors to the gallery to contribute their own responses to the book and its themes.

Portable versions of the installation dubbed ‘evidence booths’ – complete with audio content triggered by ‘evidence’ from the book - will tour around London libraries throughout the duration of the campaign, with week-long residencies planned in twelve locations.

The installation has been produced in partnership with Bristol-based Stand+Stare and creative consultant Jon Slack.

The news follows Audible Studios’ acquisition of the world rights (excluding North America) for the book from Canongate. Ten Days takes an unflinching look at how lives are ruined and careers are made when small misjudgements have profound effects on frustrated communities and damaged individuals.

Tracey Markham, Country Manager, Audible, said: “We’re delighted to be working with Cityread to get the capital listening and also with Canongate and Gillian Slovo to bring Gillian’s insightful story, Ten Days, to audio. The installation at Foyles later this month is going to be a unique way for people to listen to the story, interact and respond to the themes. It’s great that it will also tour London’s libraries giving even more people the chance to listen to fantastic digital storytelling.”

Andy Ryan, Director of Cityread, said: “Cityread will also feature a range of events across London’s network and a giveaway of 1000 copies of the book across 10 days in April in key London locations linked to the book’s plot and themes. Full details of the events programme can be found at www.cityread.london. In addition Audible have made a free download of the book available to anyone who signs up to Audible for a free trial which we hope will get all of London listening to and reading Ten Days.”

Notes for Editors

The installation will run in The Gallery at Foyles, Level 5, 107 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DT. Opening hours: 9.30am-9pm Monday to Saturday and 11.30am-6pm Sunday.

The mobile installations will have week long residences at 12 London libraries with full details of locations and dates to be announced.

About Cityread London Created and delivered by Stellar Libraries CIC, Cityread London promotes the key ideas of reading for pleasure, engaging new library users, enhancing the experience of existing readers, and encouraging people to explore and celebrate London’s culture, landscape and history. Cityread London represents culture for all, with all London library services developing a programme of reading, activities and events using a variety of formats including , , large print, and in translation where possible, aimed at encouraging readers at all levels. Founded in 2012 it has featured: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Penguin), 2012; A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks (Vintage), 2013; My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young (Borough Press), 2014; Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz) 2015.

Full details of all Cityread London activity can be found at the website: www.cityread.london

About Audible Ltd. Audible, an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, offering customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible was created to unleash the emotive music in language and the habituating power and utility of verbal expression. Audible content includes more than 200,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. Audible is also the preeminent provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.

About Ten Days It’s 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire.

In this gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author Gillian Slovo, ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from a stifling heatwave. And, as Westminster careers are being made or ruined, lives are at stake. Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and the hard realities of living in London collide.

Ten Days is published in hardback on 3 March 2016 by Canongate and priced at £14.99

About Gillian Slovo Gillian Slovo is a playwright and the author of thirteen , including five crime novels, the courtroom drama , which was made into a feature film starring and , and the Orange Prize-shortlisted Ice Road. She co-authored the play Guantanamo – Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, which was staged internationally. Her research for her play The Riots inspired Ten Days. Gillian Slovo was President of English PEN from 2010 to 2013 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was born in South Africa and lives in London.

About The Gallery at Foyles The Gallery at Foyles is located on Level 5 of the new Foyles bookshop at 107 Charing Cross Road. The gallery is curated and managed by Futurecity and features collaborative projects inspired by the printed, performed and written word. The programme examines the space between text and the visual arts: using typography, languages, libraries and archives as a catalyst for exhibitions featuring Fine Art, Photography and Mastercraftsmanship.

Past exhibitions have featured work by Turner-Prize nominated artist Mark Titchner, Guardian Eyewitness photographer David Levene, a group exhibition An Ode to ‘A Rebours’ showcasing contemporary master craftsmanship, Eccentric Spaces; an exhibition of contemporary fine art responding to real and imagined places, Inferno; an exhibition of previously unseen photos of Alexander McQueen’s seminal Dante catwalk show, Growing the Future City; Grimshaw Architects exploration of urban living in the 21st century, a solo presentation of work by artist Jane Ward and Consequences – a ‘live’ letterpress project in which the public could create a handprinted poster in the gallery. Future exhibitions for 2016 will include design, advertising and Digital projects. www.futurecity.co.uk/gallery-at-foyles

About Futurecity Founded by Mark Davy in 2007, Futurecity is interested in developing collaborative relationships between artists and other disciplines, whether science, architecture or technology. Futurecity work with curators, galleries and clients from around the world, championing artists who are changing the way art is presented in an urban context. The curate major arts projects, devise cultural strategies, broker cultural partnership and deliver arts projects from inception to completion. www.futurecity.co.uk

About Foyles Foyles, the world-famous bookseller, was founded in 1903 by two brothers. As well as the flagship store on Charing Cross Road, Foyles has London bookshops at the Southbank Centre, and . It also has branches in Cabot Circus, Bristol and Grand Central, Birmingham.

The Foyles website has millions of books for sale, with live stock availability from all its bookshops and details of upcoming literary events and book signings. Foyles also sells nook ereaders and tablets. www.foyles.co.uk

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