We welcome Orange prize-winning author Lionel Shriver back to Bath to celebrate the publication of her latest book, So Much for That.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Philip Ball
Thursday 8th April 2010 – 7.30pm
Philip Ball is a true renaissance man. Not only is he one of today’s leading science writers, but a biographer, a novelist, and the author of brilliant books on painting and architecture. Now, in The Music Instinct he turns his attention to the most elusive of the arts, though arguably the one that people all [...]
Derek Johns
Tuesday 6th April 2010 – 8.00pm
The Billy Palmer Chronicles brings to a conclusion the life of Derek Johns’ semi-autobiographical character Billy Palmer, who we have grown to love in his previous novels, Wintering and Wakening. The Billy Palmer Chronicles includes these two previous novels as well as two new ones, Westering and Wanting, in which Johns describes the adulthood and [...]
Lionel Shriver
Tuesday 6th April 2010 – 7.30pm
Shriver’s Orange Prize winning We Need to Talk About Kevin has proved one of the most discussed and admired novels of recent years. Her latest, So Much for That – a blistering attack on America’s public health policy – has already become the focus of enthusiasm and debate. Pointed, witty, and strongly characterised, it promises [...]
Philip Pullman
Thursday 1st April 2010 – 8.00pm
Published by Canongate as part of their Myths series, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is Philip Pullman’s spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus. We are delighted to welcome Philip Pullman to Bath to discuss his new work, which is part novel, part history and part fairytale. Pullman will discuss the tensions [...]