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Wednesday
27 January 2010
Claire
Harman
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
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Claire
Harman is a biographer and short story writer. Her new book
Jane's Fame plots the exhilerating rise of Jane Austen
from unknown country lady to world-wide fame and influence.
www.claireharman.com |
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Tuesday
2 March 2010
Humphrey
Hawksley
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
Humphrey
Hawksley is a BBC foreign correspondent, thriller writer and
commentator. His latest work Democracy Kills is a powerful
examination of the dangers of democracy as well as the hope
it brings.
www.humphreyhawksley.com |
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Wednesday
7 April 2010
Jenny
Diski
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
(following
AGM at 7pm)
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Jenny
Diski has written novels, travel/memoirs, short stories, journalism
and essays. In The Sixties (Big Ideas) she writes of
that almost mythical decade as only somebody who was really
'there' could. |
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Tuesday
11 May 2010
Hilary
Mantel
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
Hilary
Mantel won the 2009 Man Booker prize for Wolf Hall,
a fictionalised account that brings Thomas Cromwell and his
times disturbingly to life. Her other award-winning novels range
from the French Revolution to the life of a Home Counties psychic. |
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Thursday
3 June 2010
Jenny
Uglow
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
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Jenny
Uglow is a biographer, historian and editor. Her latest work
is a study of Charles II and the tumultuous first ten years
of the reign of a man who was astonished to be restored to his
throne.
www.jennyuglow.co.uk
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Saturday
19 June 2010
Anthony
and Ann Thwaite
Debenham Arts Festival |
Please see the Debenham Arts Festival website for further
information:
http://www.debenhamartsfestival.co.uk/ |
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Friday
25 June 2010
Margaret
Drabble
Framlingham Festival
St John's Westbury Centre,
Fairfield Road, Framlingham |
Margaret
Drabble is the Honorary President of the Suffolk Book League.
She has published seventeen novels, critical studies of Hardy
and Wordsworth and biographies of Angus Wilson and Arnold
Bennett.
Please see the Framlingham Festival website for further information:
http://www.artsframlingham.org/index.html
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Tuesday
7 September 2010
Selina
Hastings
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street |
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Selina Hastings
is the author of literary biographies of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn
Waugh, Rosamond Lehmann and in 2009, Somerset Maugham. A work
that pins the great tale-teller with a sharp-eyed skill equal
to his.
www.selinahastings.com
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October
2010
Eamon
Duffy
Location tbc |
Eamon Duffy is the Cambridge Professor of the History of Christianity.
His latest work Fires of Faith takes a fresh look at
Queen Mary - Bloody Mary - and makes one think again about this
most reviled queen of England. |
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Wednesday
10 November 2010
Sally
Festing
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street |
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Sally
Festing is a poet, garden historian and biographer. She has
published lives of Gertrude Jekyll, Barbara Hepworth, as well
as The Story of Lavender and volumes of poetry.
www.sallyfesting.info
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Wednesday
8 December 2010
Frances
Spalding
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street |
Frances
Spalding is an art historian who has written lives of Roger
Fry, Vanessa Bell, John Minton, Duncan Grant and the poet Stevie
Smith as well as a history of British Art since 1900. In 2009
she published a biography of John and Myfanwy Piper.
www.francesspalding.net
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Venue
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Meetings
will be held at one of the following locations (please see the
individual talk details above for the name of the relevant venue
for each talk). The nearest car parks for the Ipswich Institute
and Museum Street Methodist Church are in Crown Street and William
Street, approximately 5 minutes walk from each venue. |
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Ipswich
Institute Reading Room and Library
15 Tavern Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 3AA [Link
to Google Maps online map of location]
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The
Library, St Joseph's College
Belstead Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 9DR [Link
to Google Maps online map of location]. There is ample free
parking. |
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St
John's Westbury Centre,
Fairfield Road, Framlingham, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP13 9LE
[Link
to Google Maps online map of location] |
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