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Wednesday
14 January 2009
John
Crace
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
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John
Crace is the Guardian journalist who writes the brilliantly
funny Digested Reads. He has also published books on
cricket and semi-fictional memoirs Baby Alarm and The
Second Half. |
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Wednesday
18 February 2009
Alison
Weir
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
Alison
Weir manages to combine being both a serious historian and a
writer of historical fiction. Alison will talk about her new
study of Anne Boleyn and her recently
published work Katherine Swynford. |
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Wednesday
11 March 2009
Charlotte
Mendelson
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street |
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Charlotte
Mendelson has published three novels. Her latest When We
Were Bad was shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Broadband
Prize for Fiction. She writes with devastating precision and
wit. |
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Wednesday
8 April 2009
Nicola
Beauman
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street (following AGM at
7pm) |
Nicola
Beauman is the founder and publisher of Persephone Books. These
beautiful books bring women writers, usually of the earlier
20th century, the prominence they deserve. |
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Thursday
7 May 2009
Blake
Morrison
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE:
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street |
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Blake
Morrison is a novelist, poet, critic, journalist, biographer,
librettist, screenplay writer and editor. He is probably
best known for his memoir And When Did You Last See Your
Father? |
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Wednesday
3 June 2009
Francis
Fyfield
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
Francis
Fyfield won the 2008 Crime Writers’ Association Duncan
Lawrie Dagger for Blood from a Stone, her seventeenth
crime novel. She has also written under the name of Francis
Hegarty. |
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Wednesday
10 June 2009
David
Lodge
Museum Street Methodist Church |
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David
Lodge has written 13 novels including Changing Places,
Home Truths and his latest Deaf Sentence.
He has written stage and screen plays and several books of literary
criticism. |
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Wednesday
9 September 2009
Jules
Pretty
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street |
Jules
Pretty has just completed The Luminous Coast about
memory, place and identity along the coasts of East Anglia.
He is a professor at the University of Essex, and writes on
agriculture. |
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September
2009
Marcel
Berlins
Location to be confirmed |
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Marcel
Berlins is a lawyer, university lecturer, journalist and broadcaster.
He is a columnist for the Guardian and a reviewer of crime fiction
for The Times. |
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Friday
2 October 2009
Valerie
Grove
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
Valerie
Grove is renowned for her biographies of the poet Laurie Lee,
children’s writer Dodie Smith and her latest A Voyage
around John Mortimer. She writes a regular column for the
Times. |
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Tuesday
3 November 2009
John
Hatcher
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
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John
Hatcher, a Cambridge professor, has written a fascinating, life
and death ‘docudrama’ that examines the impact on
the inhabitants of Walsham of the Black Death. |
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Wednesday
2 December 2009
Eleanor Bron
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street |
Eleanor
Bron has had a long career in comedy on stage, TV, radio and
film. She is the author of several books including The Pillow
Book of Eleanor Bron. |
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Venue
information |
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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 Multimap online map of location]
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Museum
Street Methodist Church
17 Black Horse Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2EF [Link
to Multimap online map of location] |
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The
Library, St Joseph's College
Belstead Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 9DR [Link
to Multimap online map of location]. There is ample free
parking. |
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The
Sanctuary, St Nicholas Centre
4 Cutler Street (off Cromwell Square), Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1
1UQ [Link
to Multimap online map of location]. |
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