Forthcoming Events
Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Linda Grant at Bristol Festival of Ideas
Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:00
In Fifty Shades of Feminism, 50 women – young and old, writers, politicians, actors, scientists, mothers – reflect on the shades of feminism that inspired them and what being woman means to them today. Two of the editors – Lisa Appignaesi and Rachel Holmes – join two of the contributors – Bidisha and Linda Grant – to discuss some of the issues raised about being a feminist today.
Rachel Holmes at Dublin Writers Festival
Monday, 20 May 2013 18:00
To mark the publication of Fifty Shades of Feminism, Dublin Writers Festival brings together co-editor Rachel Holmes and contributor Shami Chakrabarti with theatre maker Louise Lowe and journalist Una Mullally to explore the many shades of feminism today.
Sarah Churchwell at Charleston Festival
Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:00
Sarah Churchwell discusses Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby with writer, critic and journalist Nicolette Jones.
Sarah Churchwell at Hay Festival
Saturday, 25 May 2013 11:30
Sarah Churchwell talks to Sarah Crompton about her new book on F Scott Fitzgerald, Careless People: Murder, Mayhem And The Invention Of The Great Gatsby.
Sandi Toksvig at Hay Festival
Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:10
The new show of stand-up, stories and fascinating facts from the Hay sweetheart and international treasure.
Rachel Holmes at Brighton Festival
Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:00
Rachel Holmes will discuss 50 Shades of Feminism on 26 May. This event is an antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire.
Sarah Dunant at London Literature Festival
Monday, 27 May 2013 14:00
Acclaimed novelist Sarah Dunant discusses blood, beauty, power, corruption, sex and poison with leading historian Lisa Jardine.
Sarah Dunant is a celebrated novelist of the Italian Renaissance. Her new novel is Bloody and Beauty.
Lisa Jardine, a historian of the same era, is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College London and the author of Worldly Goods and Ingenious Pursuits.
Together they talk about women in the Renaissance and how to make history popular. They ask whether television makes things better or worse, and consider the strange correlation between violence and culture.
Lyndall Gordon at Keats House Festival
Wednesday, 29 May 2013 18:30
Prize-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon will Talk about the explosive and visionary character of Emily Dickinson, the poems she shared with her confidante next door, and the medical secret that kept her secluded in her father’s house.
Sarah Dunant at Hay Festival
Sunday, 02 June 2013 13:00
Sarah Dunant in conversation with SJ Parris. The acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance takes on the era’s most infamous family – the Borgias.
A Rumer Godden Evening at Lamb House
Sunday, 02 June 2013 19:30
A Rumer Godden Evening at Lamb House
Tracey Thorn at London Literature Festival
Sunday, 02 June 2013 19:45
Literary stars gather at Southbank Centre this season at two prize-reading events – the 2013 Man International Booker Prize Readings and the Women’s Prize for Fiction Readings.
Naomi Wolf at TED Global
Monday, 10 June 2013
Naomi Wolf will be speaking at TED Global on 10 June.
Linda Grant at Belfast Book Festival
Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:00
Linda Grant will be speaking at Belfast Book Festival on 11 June.
Tracy Thorn at Hull Literature Festival
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Tracy Thorne at Hull Literature Festival on 12 July.
Sandi Toksvig at Althorp
Thursday, 13 June 2013 15:30
One of the nation’s best-loved writers and performers, Sandi Toksvig presents her recent novel, Valentine Grey, a striking tale of liberty, empire and war. Long-standing host of Radio Four’s News Quiz and Excess Baggage,and regular QI panellist, Sandi Toksvig’s humorous session is not to be missed. The last time she spoke at Althorp, there was standing room only.
Stella Duffy at Northwich Litfest
Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:30
Writer/Director/Performer, Stella Duffy is an incredibly interesting speaker and this is most definitely an event not to be missed. Stella has written 13 novels, 50 short stories and 10 plays, has performed in and directed many theatre productions, appeared on television, and written and presented a BBC documentary.
Stella spent her childhood in New Zealand, is a practising Buddhist and lives in London with her partner, playwright Shelley Silas.
*There will be an opportunity, should you wish, to buy a signed copy of Stella’s latest book – cash sales only though, please.
Joan Bakewell at Lichfield Festival
Thursday, 20 June 2013 19:00
Dame Joan Bakewell joins us in June to launch The Lichfield Lectures as a year round series of events covering all aspects of arts and culture, through which we will welcome leading cultural figures to our city.
Sarah Dunant at City Books
Friday, 21 June 2013 19:00
Sarah Dunant discusses her new novel Blood and Beauty.
Tracy Thorne at Hebden Bridge Festival
Saturday, 22 June 2013 19:30
Pop star turned writer Tracey Thorn will one of the first acts to play the newly revamped Birchcliffe Centre in a one off ‘In Conversation With’ event.
She is booked for day one of the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival on Saturday 22 June to talk about and take questions about her new best selling memoir ‘Bedsit Disco Queen’ chronicling her rise from a unknown indie singer to an international superstar selling a staggering nine million albums.
Tracy Thorne at Latitude Festival
Saturday, 22 June 2013 20:10
Tracy Thorne at Latitude Festival on 22 June.
Sandi Toksvig at Buxton Festival
Monday, 08 July 2013 10:30
Sandi Toksvig will be appearing at Buxton Festival in conversation with Dame Janet Smith on 8 July.
Hannah Rothschild at Buxton Festival
Monday, 08 July 2013 16:00
Hannah Rothschild will be at Buxton Festival on 8 July discussing her book The Jazz Baroness
Sarah Churchill at Ways With Words Dartington
Tuesday, 09 July 2013 15:45
Sarah Churchwell will be at Dartington to discuss her new book on F Scott Fitzgerald, Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby.
Frances Osborne at Buxton Festival
Wednesday, 10 July 2013 10:30
Frances Osborne will be at Buxton Festival on Wednesday 10 July discussing her book Park Lane.
Frances Osborne at Althorp Festival
Saturday, 13 July 2013 12:00
Frances Osborne will be at the Althorp Festival on 13 July discussing her novel Park Lane
Jane Murray Flutter at the West Cork Literary Festival
Saturday, 13 July 2013 15:30
Jane Murray-Flutter will speak at the Literary Tea about the life and work of her mother.
Sarah Churchwell at Harrogate Festival
Sunday, 14 July 2013 14:00
F. Scott Fitzgerald fever is being reignited once more with the latest version of one of America’s most iconic novels, The Great Gatsby, hitting the big screen. The enduring legacy of Gatsby is as powerful today, as then, as economists refer to the USA’s economic inequalities and failure of the American Dream as the ‘Gatsby curve.’ Sarah Churchwell is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, which explores the true story of the chaotic world Fitzgerald lived in, reconstructing the parties, the drunken weekends, jazz clubs, rise of celebrity culture and casual interaction of high society and organised crime. Sarah joins Alex Preston, whose debut novel, The Bleeding City, picks over the carcass of the financial markets in the wake of the 2007 crash in a withering love story and study of excess, inspired by Fitzgerald’s short story Return to Babylon.
Be seduced by the destructive glamour of America’s most iconic writer, and hear just how prophetic Fitzgerald was, and remains.
Sarah Churchwell at the Rose Theatre
Friday, 19 July 2013
Sarah Churchwell at the Rose Theatre on 19 July.
Sandi Toksvig at Edingburgh International Books Festival
Sunday, 11 August 2013 11:30
Sandi Toksvig will be speaking about her book, Valentine Grey, at Edinburgh Book festival
Sarah Dunant at Edinburgh International Books Festival
Sunday, 11 August 2013 19:00
Sarah Dunant at Edinburgh International Books Festival on 11 August.
Sarah Churchwell at Edinburgh International Books Festival
Saturday, 17 August 2013 12:30
Sarah Churchwell at Edinburgh International Books Festival
Tracy Thorne at Edinburgh International Books Festival
Sunday, 18 August 2013
Tracy Thorne at Edinburgh International Books Festival on 18 August.
Lisa Appignanesi at Edinburgh International Books Festival
Tuesday, 20 August 2013 15:00
Lisa Appignanesi and Kate Mosse at Edinburgh International Books Festival speaking about Fifty Shades of Feminism
N.B. Always remember to check with the venue that the event is definitely going ahead before you travel. Events sometimes have to be cancelled or altered at the very last minute.
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