Carcanet's Jon Glover (Glass is Elastic, January 2012) and Comma Press's Zoe Lambert (The War Tour, July 2007) will be reading at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton on 16 February. Both writers teach at the University of Bolton, and their reading will form part of the popular Literature Live series. For more information and to book tickets, please visit the Octagon Theatre website.

Glass is Elastic is a book of surfaces and reflections, mirrors and windows. What do we see – what do we know – in a world experienced through lenses and screens? 'Don’t blink. Nobody’s / looking, nobody’s seeing.' Jon Glover explores the treachery and creativity inherent in the eye’s lens, in the eyeball itself, in a microscope or camera, in a telescope, in the mysterious properties of glass, malleable as time itself. Click on the link to order this title with 20% off and free UK p&p as part of the January online promotion on www.Carcanet.co.uk.

In The War Tour, Zoe Lambert’s stories weave a dark and disturbing web, interlacing documentary accounts with imagined testimonies to give voice to the many silenced casualties of war: an elderly woman on a bus tells a love story drawn from the depths of Soviet history; a soldier returns from his first tour of duty unsure he deserves his hero’s welcome; a Norwegian immigrant pieces together a family history fractured in the aftermath of Nazi occupation. Click on the link to order this title with 20% off and free UK p&p as part of the January online promotion on www.Carcanet.co.uk.