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Monday 17th November
at 6pm
Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Edward Wilson, author of The Envoy, A River in May, The Midnight Swimmer and The Whitehall Mandarin will be appearing at Scotland's Previously History Festival.
Historical novelists Andrew Williams, ...
Read moreMonday 17th November
at 6pm
Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Edward Wilson, author of The Envoy, A River in May, The Midnight Swimmer and The Whitehall Mandarin will be appearing at Scotland's Previously History Festival.
Historical novelists Andrew Williams, William Ryan and Edward Wilson discuss the shadow world of spies and secret policemen, from World War 1 to Vietnam.
Buy tickets at www.historyfest.co.uk
TUESDAY 28TH OCTOBER
Novel histories: Lisa Appignanesi and Sarah Dunant in conversation
Sarah Dunant, Lisa Appignanesi
WATERSTONE'S HAMPSTEAD
7:00PM
Tickets: £3/5, available from the shop
... Read moreTUESDAY 28TH OCTOBER
Novel histories: Lisa Appignanesi and Sarah Dunant in conversation
Sarah Dunant, Lisa Appignanesi
WATERSTONE'S HAMPSTEAD
7:00PM
Tickets: £3/5, available from the shop
Lisa Appignanesi’s latest novel 'Sacred Ends' is a complex and chilling thriller set in fin-de-siècle France, while Sarah Dunant’s 'Blood and Beauty' takes us to Renaissance Italy with its compelling narrative of politics, passion and power. Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Sacred Ends' and hear these acclaimed Hampstead authors discuss the art of historical fiction. Wine and other refreshments provided.
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SUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2014.
Time
1.30pm
Location
Artlink
87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP
Tickets
£4 / £3
Available from: www.humbermouth.co.uk or 01482 300 300
IN 1989,...
Read moreSUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2014.
Time
1.30pm
Location
Artlink
87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP
Tickets
£4 / £3
Available from: www.humbermouth.co.uk or 01482 300 300
IN 1989, eighteen-year-old John Finch spends his Saturdays following Nottingham Forest up and down the country and the rest of the week trudging the streets of his hometown as a postal worker. His blossoming relationship with girlfriend Jen is his only other respite. In 2004 he is teaching in a southern secondary school while delaying the inevitable onslaught of parenthood. Leading inexorably towards the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough, and the worst sporting disaster in British history, this book glides between 1989 and 2004, when the true impact of this tragic day becomes evident. Fan is a book about personal and collective tragedy. It’s about growing up and not growing up, about manhood and about what makes a man, and about football’s role in reflecting a society never more than a brick’s throw away from shattering point.
DANNY RHODES His short stories have appeared in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic and his debut novel, Asboville was published in October 2006. Well received by critics, it was selected as a Waterstone’s Paperback of the Year and it has been adapted for BBC Films by the dramatist Nick Leather. Rhodes’ second novel Soldier Boy was published in February 2009. Fan is Danny’s third novel. Danny Rhodes was at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989.
A percentage of profits from book sales will go to the Anfield Sports & Community Centre (ASCC), on behalf and in memory of the Hillsborough 96.
THURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER
Time
7.30pm / Start 8.15pm
Location
Pave
16 - 20 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QA
BONNIE GREER.
Tickets
£8 / £5
Available: www.humbermouth.co.uk or 01482 300 300
Bonnie Greer...
Read moreTHURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER
Time
7.30pm / Start 8.15pm
Location
Pave
16 - 20 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QA
BONNIE GREER.
Tickets
£8 / £5
Available: www.humbermouth.co.uk or 01482 300 300
Bonnie Greer OBE, is an American-British playwright, novelist and critic. She grew up on the South Side of Chicago, the eldest of seven children born to Ben, a Mississippi sharecropper, Chicago factory worker, and D-Day veteran, and Willie Mae, who went to work at fifteen to support her family. Although she began writing plays at the age of nine, Bonnie initially set out on a legal career, the career of choice for a black girl coming of age in the Civil Rights movement. She decided to return to writing instead of pursuing the law and went on to study playwriting in Chicago under David Mamet and at the Actors Studio in New York with Elia Kazan. Bonnie has been a regular contributor to BBC2’s ‘Newsnight Review’ and ‘Question Time’.
From her early years in segregated, racist America to her first steps towards British soil, Bonnie’s story is not only compelling and eye-opening, but an exquisite testament to one woman’s strength, determination and pride.
Bonnie will be in conversation with Russ Litten and also reading from her memoir Parallel Life.
World literature publishers Arcadia Books, founded in 1996, have been named as Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year and have twice won the Independent Publishers Guild Diversity Award. They publish award-winning writers from 60 countries and their authors have been the recipients of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the International Dagger...
Read moreWorld literature publishers Arcadia Books, founded in 1996, have been named as Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year and have twice won the Independent Publishers Guild Diversity Award. They publish award-winning writers from 60 countries and their authors have been the recipients of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the International Dagger. - See more at: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/browse-regularly-funded-organisati...
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