{"id":101599,"date":"2018-02-23T12:19:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T12:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=101599"},"modified":"2018-02-23T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T12:19:32","slug":"london-book-screen-week-2018-celebrates-womens-suffrage-and-mary-shelley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/london-book-screen-week-2018-celebrates-womens-suffrage-and-mary-shelley\/","title":{"rendered":"London Book &#038; Screen Week 2018 celebrates women&#8217;s suffrage and Mary Shelley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s edition of\u00a0<strong>London Book &amp; Screen Week\u00a0<\/strong><strong>(9-15 April 2018)<\/strong> is set to celebrate women&#8217;s suffrage, marking the centenary of the women&#8217;s vote, and pay homage to exceptional book adaptations with a range of exciting events in store suitable for book and film lovers alike.<\/p>\n<p>Genre fans might want to get themselves down to\u00a0<em><strong>Frankenstein: The Reincarnations<\/strong><\/em> on\u00a0<strong>Tuesday 10 April<\/strong> (Soho House Screening Room, 17.30-21.00).<\/p>\n<p>The festival will be resurrecting Mary Shelley&#8217;s groundbreaking 1818 novel in a themed evening celebrating 200 years of\u00a0<em><strong>Frankenstein<\/strong><\/em> in popular culture.<\/p>\n<p>Biographer Fiona Sampson will be in conversation with novelist Nick Harkaway (chaired by Kim Newman) to discuss Shelley and her book, before screening Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s 1994 film\u00a0<em><strong>Mary Shelley&#8217;s Frankenstein<\/strong><\/em> starring Branagh, Robert de Niro, Helena Bonham Carter and John Cleese.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for\u00a0<em><strong>Frankenstein: The Reincarnations<\/strong><\/em> are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/frankenstein-the-reincarnations-tickets-41457963886\">on sale now.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other events include a special screening of\u00a0<em><strong>Suffragette\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>with Dr Helen Pankhurst (author of\u00a0<em><strong>Deeds Not Words<\/strong><\/em>), a screening of\u00a0<em><strong>Me Before You<\/strong><\/em> preceded by a conversation with author and festival ambassador Jojo Moyes, the return of London&#8217;s award-winning LGBT\u00a0<em><strong>Polari Literary Salon<\/strong><\/em>, and\u00a0<em><strong>Mary Poppins: A Supercalifragilistic Sing-Along<\/strong><\/em>, which is quite self-explanatory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get more information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonbookandscreenweek.co.uk\/\">London Book &amp; Screen Week website.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Book &#038; Screen Week 2018 celebrates Mary Shelley&#8217;s Frankenstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":101600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,2615,3],"tags":[6010],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Latest-News-6.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}