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Wednesday
2 February 2011
Valerie
Grove
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
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Valerie Grove makes a welcome return to talk about So Much to Tell her new biography of Kaye Webb the amazing woman who revolutionised children's publishing with Puffin books.
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Thursday
24 March 2011
Salley
Vickers
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
Salley Vickers has written seven bestselling novels after another
starting with Miss Garnet's Angel. Now she has published her first collection of short stories called Aphrodite's Hat.
www.salley.vickers.com |
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Wednesday
13 April 2011
Chris
Mullin
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich
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Chris Mullin is an author, journalist, former MP and government minister. Apart from writing bestselling thrillers and a novel he has now proved to be an outstanding political diarist.
www.chrismullinexmp.com
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Tuesday 10 May 2011
Wendy
Moore
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street |
After the gore of her biography of surgery pioneer John Hunter, Wendy wrote Wedlock the story of the most awful husband of the 18th century. Her latest is a history of a real life Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle.
www.wendymoore.org
twitter: @wendymoore99 |
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Thursday
2 June 2011
Marcus
Scriven
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
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Marcus Scriven has written a fastidiously researched biography Splendour & Squalor: the Disgrace and Distintegration of Three Aristocratic Families that reveals the well deserved ruin of a clutch of self-destructive aristocrats
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Prize Evenings
Tuesday
5 July 2011 
2011
New Angle Literary Prize Shortlist Showcase
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
Wednesday 7 September 2011
2011
New Angle Literary Prize Awards Dinner
Belstead Brook Hotel, Ipswich
And the winner is...
Congratulations to Jim Kelly for the book Death Watch. Special mention also goes to runner-up Ronald Blythe for Aftermath and Maggi Hambling, the Readers' Choice winner for The Aldeburgh Scallop. |
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Tuesday
6 September 2011
Edward
Vallance
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
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Edward Vallance is the
author of A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries, the story of British radicalism from Magna Carta to the present. Almost a thousand years of struggle that helped win us our freedoms and rights.
www.edwardvallance.wordpress.com
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Thursday
6 October 2011
Catherine
Horwood
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
Catherine Horwood is a writer on the social history of fashion, consumerism, shopping and gardening. Her latest is Gardening Women. Their stories from 1600 to the Present. She delights in being a gardener herself.
www.gardeningwomen.typepad.com/catherine_horwood |
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FREE ADMISSION
Wednesday
12 October 2011 at 2pm
Louise Doughty
University Campus Suffolk, Lecture Theatre WLT1, Waterfront Building, Ipswich |
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Every year the SBL sponsors a talk at University Campus Suffolk in the School of Arts and Humanities Lecture series. This year we are delighted to say that our speaker is Louise Doughty and she will be talking about her Costa Book Awards short-listed novel Whatever You Love. You can find out more about Louise and her novels at www.louisedoughty.com
Click here to download further details of this event |
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Wednesday 2 November
2011
Marina
Lewycka
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich
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Marina Lewycka is the author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian which sold over a million copies in Britain alone. She followed this with two more bestsellers:- Two Caravans and We Are All Made of Glue.
www.marinalewycka.com
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Wednesday 23 November
2011
Sonia Purnell
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street |
Whether you believe Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a charismatic clown or cold eyed office seeker (watch out Cameron!) he commands attention. Sonia was once a close colleague and provides a close up analysis of his rise and how he's done it.
twitter: @soniapurnell
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Friday
2 December 2011
Alexandra
Harris
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich |
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Alexandra Harris won the Guardian First Book Award with Romantic Moderns: English Writer, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper. She brings the 30s and 40s to life covering art and literature, music, films, architecture and food. Click here to read some glowing reviews of Alexandra's work.
www.alexandraharris.co.uk
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