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| The Wimbledon Bookfest e-news
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| 22nd September, 2009 |
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Dear Book Lover
Wimbledon Bookfest
starts in under two weeks - on Saturday 3rd October. Tickets
are selling fast for many events so make sure you book your
tickets now to avoid disappointment.
The Bookfest
launch takes place on Saturday 3rd October at St
Mark’s Place (by Wimbledon Library). Come and support the
festival and meet our patrons David Wood, June
Whitfield, Penny Vincenzi and Michelle
Paver who will be signing books from
10-midday.
There will be community
stalls from Bookfest partners, including the Women’s
Institute, Polka Theatre and Wimbledon Film
Club. The Golden Treasury Bookshop will be selling
books.
We hope to see you
there.
Best wishes
The Bookfest Team
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To whet your appetite here are
some of the fabulous history events taking
place:
The Voyage of the
Beagle James
Taylor
 A series of sensational seafaring stories. James
Taylor reveals why Darwin was sailing on the Beagle and why the
captain of the ship, Robert FitzRoy was returning to South American
waters. Journal extracts, paintings and photographs bring the voyage
to life.
James Taylor is an award-winning writer and
former curator at the National Maritime
Museum.
Saturday 3rd
October
Southside House,3-4 Woodhayes Rd, SW19 (opp Hand in
Hand pub)
3pm
start (Doors: 2.30pm)
Duration: 1 hour Tickets: £7
By kind
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Clare Mulley
Eglantyne Jebb: The Woman Who Saved The
Children
In this award-winning biography Clare Mulley
brings to life the unconventional founder of Save the
Children, Eglantyne Jebb. Eglantyne dedicated her life to
children’s welfare and human rights and permanently changed the way
the world acts towards children. 2009 marks the 90th anniversary of
Save the Children and the 20th anniversary of the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child which evolved from Jebb’s
pioneering work. Clare is winner of the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club
Prize.
Monday 5 October
Southside House, 3-4
Woodhayes Rd, SW19 (opp Hand in Hand pub)
7pm start (Doors: 6.30pm)
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets:
£7.50 (incl glass of wine/soft drink)
By kind permission of the
Pennington Mellor Munthe Charitable Trust
Royalties from sale of
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Sir Max Hastings
Churchill: Finest Years
The
journalist and military historian presents Churchill as he has never
been seen before in Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45.
Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In
1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But
thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide between
what Churchill wanted from the British people and their army, and
what they were capable of delivering. Sir Max Hastings paints a
vivid image of the Prime Minister in triumph and
tragedy.
Wednesday 7 October
Kings
College Collyer Hall, Southside, Wimbledon Common,
SW19
7.30pm start (Doors:
7pm)
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets: £8
Sponsored by
Optima Medical
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 Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin's latest novel The Secret
Alchemy is set during the War of the Roses, and retells the
famous story of the Princes in the Tower while her debut novel
The Mathematics of Love bridges 19th century and modern
fiction. Emma who is the great-great-granddaughter of
Charles Darwin, will be in conversation with the writer
Jayne Buxton, talking about her books, writing and life as a
Darwin.
Thursday 8 October
Rutherford Centre for the Performing
Arts
Wimbledon High School, Mansel Rd,
SW19
8pm
start (Doors: 7.30pm)
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets: £7.50
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 Patrick French
Sir V.S. Naipaul
One of the most
gripping, intellectually curious and funniest biographies', The New
York Times called Patrick French's book about the notorious
Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipal.
'The World is what it
is' does not suppress the dark side of its subject, it is truthful
and revealing, written with 'wit and feeling'. Patrick
French is a gifted historian, an accomplished writer and a
brilliant raconteur. You are invited to listen to him as he reveals
the excitement of living with and writing about a great artist who
was often described as a monster.
Thursday 8
October
Kings College Collyer Hall, Southside, Wimbledon
Common, SW19
7.30pm start
(Doors: 7pm)
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets: £7.50
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History All Around
Us
John Hawks chairs a
distinguished panel of local historians showcasing some of the
latest books on Wimbledon and its surrounding villages. The session
will be held in the Colour House Theatre - believed to have been
part of the medieval Merton Priory, later the dye-mixing shop of
Liberty’s famous print works and now Merton Abbey
Mills.
Friday 9 October
Colour House Theatre,
Merton Abbey Mills (off Merantum Way) SW19
7.30pm start (Doors: 7pm)
Duration: 1.5
hours
Tickets: £6 (incl glass of wine/soft
drink)
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 Darwin’s Publisher
The Wimbledon Society and Southside House
present John Murray VII of the celebrated publishing dynasty,
whose antecedents found a refuge in Wimbledon from London’s literary
furores, in conversation with biographer James Hamilton,
authority on 19th century cultural history and author of London
Lights.
Saturday 10 October
Southside
House, Woodhayes Rd, SW19 (opp Hand in Hand pub)
3pm start (Doors:2.30pm) Duration: 1
hour
Tickets: £7.50 (includes tea)
By kind permission of the
Pennington Mellor Munthe Charitable Trust
Sponsored and organised
by The Wimbledon Society
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 David Waller
Gertrude Tennant, Victorian Grande
Dame
David Waller tells the story of
this Victorian grande dame par excellence in The Magnificent Mrs
Tennant. Gertrude Tennant's literary and artistic salon was one
of the foremost places to be seen, and Gertrude herself the social
hub of this glittering world. Victorian luminaries including
Gladstone, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Arthur Balfour, Robert
Browning, John Everett Millais and even Mark Twain were all habitués
of her salon. David Waller will talk and read from his book.
Early reviews have compared the book to “Thackeray at his best” and
even Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
Saturday 10
October
Wimbledon Library, 35 Wimbledon Hill Road,
SW19
6pm start (Doors:
5.30pm)
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets: £5
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Come on down to
Polka on Saturday 10 October to meet your favourite authors,
illustrators and poets and get your books
signed!
The Word continues to go from
strength to strength, attracting the very best in children's
literature. Look out for some great authors this year which
include Roger McGough, Caroline Lawrence, Marcus Sedgwick, Polly
Dunbar and many more!
Make sure you get your tickets
today for this
fun-packed day at www.polkatheatre.com
We look forward to seeing you at The Word....if not before!
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