2pm – UCF
Seminar on A Tale of Two Cities
FREE – (Booking required)
Seminar with Carolyn Oulton, Reader in Victorian Literature, Department of English and Language Studies Canterbury Christ Church University, and course leader for the new BA (Hons) Professional and Creative Writing at UCF.
2.15pm – Quarterhouse
Caroline Moorehead – A Train In Winter:
A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival
£6 full / £5 conc. / £4 Friends
Caroline Moorehead’s breathtaking new book A Train in Winter covers a harrowing part of our history. It tells the story of a group of 230 French women resisters who were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz .
4pm – Quarterhouse
Christopher Lloyd – In Search of a Masterpiece:
An Art Lovers Guide to Great Britain & Ireland
£8 full / £7 conc. / £6 Friends & NADFAS members
President of NADFAS (the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies), Trustee of The Art Fund and Governor of Gainsborough’s House at Sudbury.
Christopher Lloyd’s In Search of a Masterpiece takes the reader on a journey across Britain and Ireland in search of the highlights and unknown gems of our public collections.
5pm – The Brewery Tap
Robert Hutchinson – Young Henry:
The Rise of Henry VIII
FREE (Booking required)
Young Henry focuses on the first 35 years of Henry VIII’s life, uncovering the course of events that turned a happy, playful Renaissance prince into the tyrant of his later years, as the golden age heralded so optimistically by his accession slowly turned to bleak human tragedy.
5.45pm – Quarterhouse
Arabella Weir – The Real Me Is Thin
£10 full / £8 conc. / £7 Friends
Written with startling frankness, Arabella unravels her own eating history in this humorous appraisal of our attitudes towards eating disorders and obesity.
Arabella Weir is the author of the best-selling Does My Bum Look Big In This?
She is best known for her role in BBC2′s The Fast Show and is a frequent commentator in the Guardian and on Radio 4 comedy series Smelling of Roses.
6pm – UCF
Public Lecture: Forgotten Victorian Women Writers
FREE (Booking required)
Public lecture from Carolyn Oulton, followed by a signing of Carolyn’s new poetry collection, A Child, A Death and The Making of the Fairy Tale Woman.
7pm – The Grand
Anthony Slinn Lecture – Paul Gauguin: Vincent’s Friend
£8
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) made major contributions to modern art with his naturalistic style and innovative use of colour. Anthony Slinn, artist, art teacher, and lecturer, explores the artist’s life and work including his stormy relationship with Van Gogh, his ‘escape’ to Tahiti, and his fascination with its Polynesian culture.
7.30pm – Quarterhouse
Monkey Poet – Welcome to Afghanistan
£6 / £5 conc / £4 friends
Based on contemporary first-hand accounts and told from the central character of the young Lieutenant John Greenwood , Matt Panesh, stand-up poet delivers his account of the first Afghan War with deadly historical accuracy and wicked barrages of humour.
‘You’d be hard pressed to find a one-man Fringe show with such passion, professionalism and historical poignancy.’ THE STAGE
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