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Adam Phillips and
Barbara Taylor
On Kindness
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10am / Festival Room 2, Christ Church / £7.50
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara
Taylor, who is specifically a historian of ideas, explore
the concept of kindness, its status among human
attributes and the value that has been ascribed
to it over the years. The pleasures of kindness
have been well known since the dawn of Western
thought. Part of the purpose of this book is to
reinstate kindness as something necessary both
to our personal happiness and our communal
well-being. Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor argue
that the affectionate life – a life lived in instinctive
sympathetic identification with the vulnerabilities
and attractions of others – is the one we should all
be inclined to live.
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Kate Summerscale
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interviewed by Andrew Holgate
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
12pm / Hall, Christ Church / £7.50
Winner of the 2008 Samuel Johnson prize, Kate
Summerscale’s gripping true-life historical crime
investigation centres around the mysterious murder
in 1860 of four-year-old Francis Saville Kent, who
had been snatched from his nursemaid’s bedroom at
night and was discovered the next morning with his
throat cut. The subsequent investigation by Scotland
Yard’s ‘Jack’ Whicher gripped the nation and helped
launch detective fiction. ‘Summerscale’s account
of the murder and Whicher’s unravelling of
the clues is, on one level, as suspenseful as the
fictions the case spawned. But the book . . . is
also a fascinating social history, exploring
issues of class, gender and Victorian attitudes
to crime’ - Sunday Times. Kate Summerscale talks
to Sunday Times Literary Editor Andrew Holgate.
Sponsored by The Macdonald Randolph Hotel
WEDNESDAY APRIL 2009
Writing your Family
Story Workshop
10.30-3.30pm / Bayne Room, Christ Church / £20.00
What does it take to turn your family research material
into a fascinating and readable story In this workshop,
Julie Wheelwright, MA course director in non-fiction
creative writing at City University and an award-winning
writer, will work with a small group to help them
construct their own stories and give practical advice
about the material they have collected.
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