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2 THURSDAY
APRIL 2009
Sarah Hall
interviewed by Lucy Atkins
How to Paint a Dead Man
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12pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Covering half a century, the award-winning novelist
Sarah Hall brings us a luminous and searching novel
which opens in Italy in the early 1960s.
A dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses
that have made him an enigma. He begins his last
life-painting using the same objects he has painted
obsessively throughout his career – a small group of
bottles. In Cumbria 30 years later, a landscape artist
and admirer of the Italian recluse, enters the story.
Events then move to present-day London, and a world
of darkness and sexual abandon. Interviewed by Lucy
Atkins, author and book critic for The Sunday Times.
Colin Dexter
and Laura Thompson
Chaired Fiona Lindsay
The Final Curtain
12pm / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
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Agatha Christie apparently grew to dislike her famous
detective Hercule Poirot; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
only resurrected Sherlock Holmes when forced to by
popular demand. How best to draw the final curtain
on a popular character or leave a door open for return
is discussed by Colin Dexter, creator of the equally
famous Morse, and Laura Thompson, biographer of
the queen of crime writing, Agatha Christie. Chaired
by Fiona Lindsay – formerly with the RSC’s festivals
and events. Fiona has interviewed many of the
leading artists and actors.
Sponsored the The Macdonald Randolph Hotel
High Table - Great Hall, Christ Church