ATP announce Belle & Sebastian eclectic Book Club for 10th anniversary

All Tomorrows Parties have announced the return of their Book Club for all three 10th anniversary December events.

Launched successfully at the ATP New York 2010 event the book clubs will include appearances from authors Luc Sante (Kill All Your Darlings) and Samantha Hunt (The Invention Of Everything Else), and will be curated by Jim Jarmusch.

ATP's 10th anniversary celebrations will be taking place in the surroundings of Butlins, Minehead in Somerset. Looking out over a sandy beach the site is equipped with everything festival goers could need providing the perfect location for All Tomorrow's Parties to celebrate its landmark anniversary.

At the Book Club for Nightmare Before Christmas they will be discussing J.G. Ballard's High Rise. For Weekend One the book list picked by Godspeed You! Black Emperor is as follows:

A Book of Common Prayer - Joan Didion (Vintage Books)
Antwerp - Roberto Bolano (W.W. Norton and Co)
The Good Life: Sixty Years of Self Sufficent Living - Helen & Scott Nearing (Schocken Books)
High Rise - J.G. Ballard (Harper
Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living - Jane Seymour (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Memory of Fire Trilogy - Eduardo Galeano (Da Capo Press Inc)
Palestine - Joe Sacco (Jonathan Cape)
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow (Penguin)

At the Book Club for In Between Days, curators Amos will be discussing Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. For In Between Days the curators Amos have chosen:

Atomised - Michel Houellebecq (Heinemann)
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (Picador)
Down With Skool! A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and their Parents - Geoffrey Willans (Penguin Books)
Oryx and Crake - Margret Atwood (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Rabbit Run (with reference to the other 3 in the series) - John Updike (Penguin Books)
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (Abacus)

The book for discussion at the Book Club for Bowlie 2 will be announced in the run up to the event and ATP are have announced they will be joined by authors Bob Servant who will read from 'Delete This At Your Peril' and Stuart Murdoch from Belle & Sebastian who will read from his forthcoming debut 'The Celestial Cafe'. The book list picked by Belle & Sebastian is as follows:

10 Rules of Rock - Robert Forster (ReadHowYouWant)
The Seventeen - Bill Drummond (Beautiful Books)
45 - Bill Drummond (Abacus)
Apathy for the Devil - Nick Kent (Faber and Faber)
Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall - Luke Haines (Heinemann)
The Celestial Cafe - Stuart Murdoch (Pomona - out soon)
Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with Internet Spammers - Bob Servant (Birlinn General)
Different for Girls - Louise Wener (Ebury Press)
How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Stewart Lee (Faber & Faber)
Kill Your Friends - John Niven (CCV)
The Manual: How to Have a Number One Hit the Easy Way - Bill Drummond (Omnibus)

Space will be limited for the Book Club so anyone who is interested in participating should email atpbookclub@gmail.com to register their interest for a Book Club at any of the three events.

ATP's 10th anniversary celebrations will be taking place in the surroundings of Butlins, Minehead in Somerset. Looking out over a superb sandy beach the site is equipped with everything festival goers could need providing the perfect location for All Tomorrow's Parties to celebrate its landmark anniversary.

Tickets for the Belle & Sebastian curated Bowlie 2 held from Friday 10th until Sunday 12th December are priced at £165 and a self catering room ticket is priced at £175. To buy tickets, click here.

In Between Days will be held from Monday 6th until Thursday 9th December 2010. This year In Between Days is curated by vinyl toy designers AMOS.

Nightmare Before Christmas takes place from Friday 3rd to 5th December 2010. The Nightmare Before Christmas, curated by Godspeed You! Black Emperor is sold out.

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