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APRIL 2009
John Carey
interviewed by Peter Kemp
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Abbot Christopher Jamison 534
Work in Progress: William Golding
10am / Newman Rooms, St Aldates / £7.50
Sunday Times Fiction Editor Peter Kemp will talk to
John Carey about his new book William Golding, The
Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, to be published by
Faber and Faber on 3 September.
Carey’s is the first biography of the Nobel-Prizewinning
novelist and it is based on a huge, previously
unexamined archive of manuscripts held by Golding’s
family, which includes early drafts of published
works, and a two-and-a-half million word journal
that Golding kept for 20 years, giving a day-by-day
account of the composition of his novels and of his
private disasters and triumphs.
Finding Happiness
10am / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Why is ‘being happy’ such an imperative nowadays
What meaning do people give happiness Questioning
the often unsatisfactory prescription offered by modern
consumer culture, Christopher Jamison, Abbot of the
Benedictine monastery of Worth, looks to the older,
more modulated monastic tradition for answers.
Examining in turn each different aspect of the idea of
happiness, he explains what monastic wisdom has to
say about them, and offers us steps towards our own
journey to finding happiness.
Sponsored by The Tablet
Stuart Sillars
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The Illustrated Shakespeare,
1709–1875
10am / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Building on his earlier book Painting Shakespeare,
Stuart Sillars’s The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709 –
1875 takes a fresh look at the tradition of visual criticism
and assimilation of Shakespeare’s plays. In his talk
based on his highly illustrated book, he helps us to see
what Shakespeare’s readers saw when they opened
their editions across two centuries and found images
as well as dialogue.
Sponsored by Belgravia Gallery
Lynda Murphy
and Julie Rugg
A Food Lover’s Treasury
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10am / Festival Room 1, Christ Church / £7.50
‘I not only think about food all day,’ said Henry Miller,
‘but I dream about it all night.’ In their hugely
entertaining book, Lynda Murphy and Julie Rugg
have trawled through literature to unearth a feast
of literary gems about food, in a treasury that will
appeal to all foodies looking for a good excuse to re-read
some of their favourite classics. These extracts
– some funny, some tragic, and some downright
bizarre – demonstrate that food is one of the great
overlooked themes of literature.
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