Suffolk Book League: Meetings
 
 
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2010
Programme
     
 
  • Entrance fees for meetings: members £4, non-members £7.50, students/non-waged: free.
  • Advance tickets: members should send cheques to the Membership Secretary, 49 Cheltenham Avenue, Ipswich, IP1 4LN.
  • Time: all events begin at 7.30pm - doors open 7.00pm.
  • Location: The venue name is given in the details of each talk, below. Further details about each venue can be found at the bottom of this page.
   

This page was last updated on 23 January 2010

     
 

Wednesday 27 January 2010
Claire Harman
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street

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
 
  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
 

Wednesday 7 April 2010
Jenny Diski
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
(following AGM at 7pm)

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.  
  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.
  Thursday 3 June 2010
Jenny Uglow
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich
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
 
  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/

 
  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

 

Tuesday 7 September 2010
Selina Hastings
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street

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
 
  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.
 

Wednesday 10 November 2010
Sally Festing
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street

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
  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
 
         
         
  Venue information
  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.
 

Ipswich Institute Reading Room and Library
15 Tavern Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 3AA [Link to Google Maps online map of location]

  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.
 

St John's Westbury Centre,
Fairfield Road, Framlingham, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP13 9LE [Link to Google Maps online map of location]

 

 

   
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