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Acclaimed author and travelling salesman Jon McGregor will use photos, videos, maps and a suitcase full of props to perform and tell a selection of stories from his new book This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You. Short stories in the collection centre on events that you may not imagine happening to you, but sometimes do.  A woman is almost killed when a sugar-beet crashes through her windscreen; a boy sets fire to a barn; a father is arrested when he tries to watch his daughter’s nativity play; and a pair of labourers sit by a lake, talking of shovels and sex, while fighter planes fly overhead in preparation for war. The stories are delicate, dangerous and sometimes deeply funny. McGregor, winner of the Betty Trask Prize and Somerset Maugham Award, is author of three novels, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, So Many Ways to Begin and Even the Dogs.