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Wednesday
16th January 2008
Marina
Warner
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
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Marina
Warner is a prize-winning novelist, mythographer and cultural
historian. Her works have been described, rightly, as bold,
imaginative and provocative. Her latest Phantasmagoria
explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment. |
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Wednesday
6th February 2008
Carmen
Callil
Museum Street Methodist Church |
Carmen
Callil is the founder and for years chair of Virago. She created
the mind-opening Virago Modern Classics list. Her haunting biography
Bad Faith tells the extraordinary story of French Nazi
Louis Darquier whose daughter became Carmen's psychiatrist. |
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Tuesday
4th March 2008
John
Stubbs
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
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John
Stubbs' biography John Donne: The Reformed Soul won
the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for a work in
progress. On publication it won plaudits all round. Andrew Motion
described it as dashing, detailed and highly readable. |
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Wednesday
2nd April 2008
Annual
General Meeting
Anthony
Bailey
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
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Annual
General Meeting
Anthony
Bailey was a writer for the New Yorker Magazine. He has written
biographies of Vermeer and Turner as well as John Constable:
A Kingdom of his Own. If you think of Constable as a
chocolate box painter, think again.
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Thursday
8th May 2008
David
Nobbs
Museum Street Methodist Church |
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David
Nobbs is the creator of the immortal Reginald Iolanthe Perrin
and the hugely successful TV series A Bit of a Do.
He wrote regularly for Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson and The Two
Ronnies and has published sixteen humorous novels. His latest
is Cupid's Dart. |
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Tuesday
3rd June 2008
Matthew
Sweeney
The Sanctuary, St Nicholas Centre |
New meeting
additional to original 2008 programme!
7.30pm (doors open
6.30pm).
Pay bar. Refreshments.
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Wednesday
11th June 2008
Barbara
Erskine
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
Barbara
Erskine is the author of the international best-seller Lady
of Hay as well as other novels and three collections of
short stories. Her works show in-depth knowledge of the Middle
Ages and the perhaps surprising power of women in those brutal
times. |
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Friday
4th July 2008
Helen
Dunmore
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
Begins 6.30pm |
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A joint SBL/Ip-art meeting
Orange
Prize-winning novelist, short story writer and poet, Helen
Dunmore has her sixth novel published this year.
Please
note this event starts at 6.30pm. Entry includes a glass of
wine. |
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Thursday
4th September 2008
Anne
Sebba
Museum Street Methodist Church |
Anne
Sebba is a novelist, biographer and journalist with a strong
interest in human rights. In 2007 she published the major biography
Jenny Churchill: Winston's American Mother. The award
winning Channel 4 Film about Mother Teresa was based on her
1998 book. |
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Wednesday
15th October 2008
Meg
Rosoff
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
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Meg
Rosoff has demonstrated a refreshing ability to write books
that appeal as much to teenagers as they do to adults. In novels
like her best-selling How I Live Now she deals with
life's mysteries in ways that you don't have to be young to
recognise. |
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Wednesday
12th November 2008
Jon
Canter
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street |
Jon
Canter is one of Britain's funniest and prolific TV comedy writers.
He wrote for such classic series as "A Bit of Fry and Laurie",
"Murder Most Horrid" and "Lenny Henry Gets Wild".
His second novel A Short Gentleman comes out this year. |
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Thursday
4th December 2008
Louis
de Bernières
Museum Street Methodist Church |
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Louis
de Bernières has just published his seventh novel A
Partisan's Daughter. His Latin American trilogy and the
hugely successful Captain Corelli's Mandolin have earned
him world status as a novelist. |
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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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