Award winning author Jim Crace © Andrew Bainbridge

From time to time Boilerhouse Media invites contemporary thinkers to share their ideas with an invited audience (sustained with food and drink) at a venue of note. Past events in the Boilerhouse Voices series have seen triple BAFTA winning, BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson talking at the Hook Norton Brewery on whether war in Iraq and Afghanistan had made the world “A Safer Place” and twice Oscar nominated film director Mike Figgis (TimeCode, Leaving Las Vegas) talking to an audience at the School of Jewellery in Birmingham unpicking the idea of “Morality in Hollywood”

We are delighted to announce that eGov Monitor will sponsor the multi-award winning writer Jim Crace as the next speaker at Boilerhouse Voices. Jim Crace has twice won the Whitbread Award and been shortlisted once for the Whitbread and the Booker prizes. He was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and the David Highham Prize for Fiction. In the USA he has been awarded National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, the American Academy of Arts & Letters E.M Forster Award. Jim Crace will be speaking to our guests in the Atrium at The Studio in central Birmingham on 26th April 2012 The title of his address will be “Can Things Only Get Worse”