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Friday
24 February 2012
Aminatta Forna
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
www.aminattaforna.com
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Aminatta Forna has written a memoir of her father and two novels. Her latest The Memory of Love is a story of friendship, war and obsessive love. It won the Commonwealth Writers Best Book Award 2011 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Warwick Prize. Aminatta's work has also won prizes in the USA, Dublin and Germany.
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Wednesday
14 March 2012
Kathleen Jones
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich
www.kathleenjones.co.uk |
Kathleen Jones has published 10 books including six biographies. Her work shows an amazing range. She has written about people as different as Catherine Cookson, Christina Rossetti and the first woman to write specifically for publication Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Her latest biography of Katherine Mansfield has been described by Jacqueline Wilson as the "best...yet".
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AGM at 7pm
Wednesday
4 April 2012
Liz Calder
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
www.fullcircle-editions.co.uk
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Liz Calder has conquered in a world of men and was THE publisher of the last four decades. She published John Irving and Angela Carter. We can thank Liz for Booker Prize winners Midnight's Children and Hotel du Lac. She was one of the founders of Bloomsbury and is now a partner in Full Circle Editions which exists to meet the growing demand for beautiful, collectible books.
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Wednesday 9 May 2012
Jane Harris
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich
www.janeharris.com |
Jane Harris has written two best selling novels The Observations and Gillipsie And I, which was selected by both the Independent and the Sunday Times as a top summer read. Jane has also written two Bafta nominated film scripts. The horrors of the alternative comedy circuit cured her of her ambition to be a stand-up. |
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Thursday
14 June 2012
John Stubbs
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
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John Stubbs’ biography of John Donne won the Jerwood Award for non-fiction. His latest book Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War is a swaggeringly splendid analysis that shows that there was more to the “romantic but wrong” cavaliers than red breeches, dash and support of a rather nasty would-be royal despot. It was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize.
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SUMMER BREAK - NO MEETINGS IN JULY AND AUGUST
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Tuesday
11 September 2012
Jeremy Page
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
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Jeremy Page is an ex-scriptwriter and film editor for FilmFour and the BBC. His first novel Salt was shortlisted for the Jelf First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. His latest novel The Wake was shortlisted for the New Angle Literary Prize last year. Both his novels have a strong East Anglian interest.
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FREE ADMISSION
Wednesday
17 October 2012 at 2pm
Jim Kelly
University Campus Suffolk, Lecture Theatre WLT1, Waterfront Building, Ipswich
www.jim-kelly.co.uk |
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 Jim Kelly, winner of the New Angle Literary Prize 2011 for his novel Death Watch. |
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Tuesday 30 October
2012
Amanda Foreman
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich
www.amanda-foreman.com
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Amanda Foreman is the internationally best selling, award winning historian and author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and now the magnificent A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided which provides a completely fresh perspective on the American Civil War. It’s so compelling you’ll find it the shortest 988-page book you’ll ever read.
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Wednesday 14 November
2012
Julia Jones
Ipswich Institute, Tavern Street
www.golden-duck.co.uk |
Julia Jones is the expert on the hugely popular detective novelist Margery Allingham and has written her biography. Her new work on Margery’s father Herbert Allingham was published last year. As befits an author who spent most of her childhood aboard Peter Duck on the Deben, Julia would like to write thrilling adventures like those of Swallows and Amazons. In The Salt-Stained Book and A Ravelled Flag she has. |
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Tuesday 11 December
2012
Anne Sebba
St Joseph's College Library, Ipswich
www.annesebba.com
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Anne Sebba the historian told us about the outrageous American Jennie Churchill on her last visit. Now she has written about an even more shocking American. That Woman: a life of Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor uses recently discovered material to throw new light on the woman who would be queen. Or would she?
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