World Book Night on Monday 23 April is aimed at encouraging people who read little or nothing.
Books will be distributed at venues nationwide including hostels, pubs and hospitals to boost reading.
Alongside the give-away, authors will be talking about their books at events nationwide.
The following events are planned at Oxfordshire libraries on Monday 23 April.
Rachel Joyce is talking about her debut novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
This is the story of recently-retired Harold Fry, who sets out one morning to post a letter to a dying friend. Quite unexpectedly, in a moment of impulse, Fry finds himself at the start of an extraordinary journey which will lead him to walk hundreds of miles from home...
Free tickets are available from Abingdon Library and Mostly Books
Mostly Books
Tel: 01235 525880
Email: books@mostly-book.co.uk
South Oxfordshire crime writer Stella Stafford will be answering questions about her novel Did Anyone Die? and her new murder mystery due out in May this year.
Set - like Morse - around Oxford and its environs, it blends mystery with humour - but there is hardly a policeman in sight.
Free tickets are available from Chipping Norton Library
Author Elizabeth Garner will read from her book The Ingenious Edgar Jones.
In nineteenth-century Oxford, an extraordinary child is born - Edgar Jones, a porter's son with a magical talent. Though his father cannot see beyond his academic slowness, his abilities as a metalworker and designer are quickly noticed, and become a source of tension within the family...
Free tickets are available from Didcot Library. Light refreshments are available.
The following events are free and do not require tickets.
1-1.45pm: Empire in a 21st Century novel
Tim Griggs will be reading from his new novel Distant Thunder.
Distant Thunder is set in 1890s Bangalore, Sudan and London. It features Frank Gray, a boy who saw his mother savagely beaten to death by a cavalry officer in Bangalore. We also learn about Grace Dearborn, who grows up in a privileged family in England but comes to realise the true human cost of her family’s fortune. The author portrays the clash of interacting cultures during the British Empire.
Tim will also be available to talk about the art of getting published.
5-6pm: Local writers' group talk
The Turl Street Writers are a local writers’ group who regularly publish volumes of short stories such as The Turl Street Tales all with an Oxford or Turl Street story. The group has also written books like Midwinter Tales to raise funds for the Maggie’s Centres for cancer sufferers at the Oxford Churchill Hospital.
A few of the writers will be reading from their books, taking questions and are happy to encourage other local writers. The group will also be treating the audience to a sneak preview of their fourth anthology Life Changing Tales due for publication in autumn 2012.
See World Book Night website.
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