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  • Celebrating Asylum - an Illustrationcupboard sale in support of the St Mary Magdalene Centre

     

    Celebrating Asylum

    Illustrationcupboard is proud to present a unique exhibition and sale of original illustration artwork in support of St Mary Magdalene Centre for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. This small London-based charity offers some of the capital’s most vulnerable people a safe place in which to meet and study, working with refugees from countries as far apart as Eritrea and Turkey, Albania and Congo, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Syria.

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    2 February, 2012 - 14 February, 2012
  • Claire Tomalin Celebrating Dickens in Southwark Cathedral

    Claire Tomalin Celebrating Dickens in Southwark Cathedral  

    Following an afternoon of activities to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, award-winning biographer Claire Tomalin will talk about her book, Charles Dickens: A Life (published by Viking in 2011).

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    7 February, 2012
  • Winter into Spring: a Live Poetry Reading and Discussion with J S Watts

     

    Winter into Spring: a Live Poetry Reading and Discussion with J S Watts

     

    Bassingbourn Community Book Café brings you the chance to hear local writer and poet J.S.Watts read from her acclaimed poetry and to ask her about her life and writing.

     

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    10 February, 2012
  • A Celebration of Angela Carter: A Bloomsbury Salon with Susannah Clapp & Friends

     

    A Celebration of Angela Carter: A Bloomsbury Salon with Susannah Clapp & Friends

     

    Susannah Clapp is the author of the first personal portrait of Angela Carter A Card from Angela Carter. The 16th of February marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of the brilliant writer Angela Carter. Susannah Clapp was her friend for many years and the postcards she sent form a paper trail through her wonderful imagination, revealing a portrait of a unique artist. Susannah will discuss her book and memories of Angela with Sir Christopher Frayling.

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    16 February, 2012
  • Award-winning BBC film maker and novelist, Stewart Binns, comes to Dorset

     

    Award-winning BBC film maker and novelist comes to Dorset

     

    TV film maker and historical author Stewart Binns, is coming to Lyme Regis in Dorset this February to share his knowledge on a three-day creative writing course as well as host a ‘Meet the Author’ lunch.

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    20 February, 2012 - 24 February, 2012
  • The Write Idea: February Book Events in Sedbergh 2012

    At last year's ‘Write Idea’ events, poetry reading and writing took centre stage. For this year's selection of events Sedbergh Book Town offers support and encouragement to local prose writers, with story making and narrative writing featuring highly in this February's selection of events. So if you'd like to strengthen your prose to make it more convincing and more dynamic, the following events are right up your street.

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    22 February, 2012 - 25 February, 2012
  • The Authentic Author's Guide to Blogging – Julia McCutchen interviews Joanna Penn

     

    The Authentic Author's Guide to Blogging – Julia McCutchen interviews Joanna Penn

     

    It's not enough to write the book in your heart these days. You also need to take that message to your target market. Agents and publishers want authors with a platform and if you're self-publishing (or going indie) you need to build an audience of people in order to sell your book. 

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    1 March, 2012
  • Words by the Water Literature Festival

    Words by the Water Literature Festival

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    2 March, 2012 - 11 March, 2012
  • Beside the Sea with Lisa Dwan

     

    Beside the Sea with Lisa Dwan

     

    Beside the Sea is a one-woman play about a mother who is driven to the extremes of mental and physical despair, performed by Lisa Dwan. Taking on the theme of infanticide with tenderness and bravery, this is a story of irrational fear, where love crosses the border into violence. Adapated from Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi, translated into English by Adriana Hunter.

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    7 March, 2012 - 8 March, 2012
  • York International Women’s Week Celebrations 2012. Partners in Crime: an evening with PJ Quinn

    York International Women’s Week Celebrations 2012
    Partners in Crime: an evening with PJ Quinn 

    How do you co-write a crime novel with your mother/daughter, without killing each other? How do you visualise a crime scene set in the 1950s, when your co-author lives 300+ miles away? Meet York author Pauline Kirk and her daughter Jo Summers.

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    8 March, 2012

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