Forthcoming Events
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.
Tracey Thorn 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.
Tracey Thorn at Latitude Festival
Saturday, 22 June 2013 20:10
Tracey Thorn at Latitude Festival on 22 June.
Sarah Dunant at Chalke Valley History Festival
Saturday, 29 June 2013 21:00
In this talk, Sarah Dunant will be sharing her research and insights into this extraordinary family and not least offering new perspectives of that most beautiful but vilified women, Lucrezia Borgia. Rich in human drama, this will be a thrilling insight into a world of deceit, murder and incest, recounted by one of our master storytellers. A treat.
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 Churchwell 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
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 Edinburgh 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
Tracey Thorn at Edinburgh International Books Festival
Sunday, 18 August 2013
Tracey Thorn 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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