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Author Name: Penelope Lively

Event Name: Ways With Words, Southwold

Date/Time: November 13, 2009, 16.00

Venue: St Edmund's Hall, Cumberland Road, Southwold

City and Postcode: Suffolk, IP18 6JP

Description: Jane Gardam and Penelope Lively: A Lifetime Writing. Two of our finest, long-standing writers talk together about the inspiration and motivation for their work. In her latest novel, 'Family Album', Penelope Lively delves into the mystery of happy family life. Jane Gardam's novel, 'The Man In The Wooden Hat', has just been published. Both writers have written fiction and nonfiction and for children, and both show an extraordinary understanding of what makes us human.

Price: £9.00

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Event contact information: 01803 867373

Author Name: Jan Dalley

Event Name: Art Festival at Hay: Exploring the Now

Date/Time: November 14, 2009, 15.30

Venue: The Globe at Hay, Newport Street

City and Postcode: Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5BG

Description: FT Arts editor Jan Dalley goes in search of the present with post-postmodern philosopher and video artist Hilary Lawson, sculptor Richard Wentworth and utopian theorist Richard Noble.

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Author Name: Meg Rosoff

Event Name: Leicestershire Literary Festival

Date/Time: November 14, 2009, 16.00

Venue: The University of Leicester

City and Postcode: Leicester, LE1 7RH

Description: Meg Rosoff will be talking about her life and work and reading from her latest novel published by Penguin, The Bride's Farewell.

Price: Free event. Book tickets in advance

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Author Name: Margaret Drabble

Event Name: Bridport Literary Festival

Date/Time: November 14, 2009, 19.30

Venue: Bridport Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport

City and Postcode: Dorset, DT6 3NR

Description: Margaret Drabble is one of the most distinguished writers of her generation and in The Pattern in the Carpet, she reveals the puzzle of her own life through the meditative assembling of jigsaws and their history.

Price: £7.00

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Author Name: Jan Dalley

Event Name: Art Festival at Hay: Art as Memory

Date/Time: November 15, 2009, 14.00

Venue: The Globe at Hay, Newport Street

City and Postcode: Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5BG

Description: Installation artist Massimo Bartolini, Hayward Gallery chief curator Stephanie Rosenthal, philosopher Jonathan Dronsfield, and Burning Man artist Sarah Appleby go in search of remembrance. FT Arts editor Jan Dalley chairs.

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Author Name: Andrew Roberts

Event Name: The Storm of War

Date/Time: November 15, 2009, 15.00

Venue: The Bull Hotel, Ballroom, 34 East Street Bridport

City and Postcode: Dorset, DT6 3LF

Description: Award winning military historian Andrew Roberts is the first and, so far, only writer to have access to the Ian Sayer Archive, the largest collection of WW2 material in private ownership in Britain. This material has provided an invaluable source for Andrew to write The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, a succinct but dramatic account of the struggle that engulfed the world between 1939 and 1945.

Price: £7.00

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Author Name: Vladimir Nabokov

Event Name: Screening of **Dominic West** reading from The Original of Laura

Date/Time: November 17, 2009, 18.30

Venue: Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square

City and Postcode: London

Description: Ian McEwan, Adam Thirlwell and Sarah Churchwell will be discussing Vladimir Nabokov's incredible body of work and his legacy with Claire Armitstead. THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA, Nabokov's highly-anticipated final novel will be published on the same day.

Price: £6.00

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Author Name: Eugene Rogan

Event Name: Obama and the Arabs: the historical context

Date/Time: November 17, 2009, 18.30

Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

City and Postcode: London

Description: This lecture will examine the Obama factor in addressing the many challenges facing US policy towards the Middle East, and Arab relations with the world's sole superpower. Eugene Rogan is director of Oxford's Middle East Centre, and author of The Arabs: a history.

Price: Free

Author Name: Miranda Carter

Event Name: Richmond on Thames, Book Now Festival

Date/Time: November 17, 2009, 19.30

Venue: The Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue

City and Postcode: Richmond upon Thames, TW9 1TP

Description: Award-winning biographer Miranda Carter will be talking about her book The Three Emperors, a triple biography os George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II.

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Author Name: Hilary Spurling

Event Name: Bridport Literary Festival

Date/Time: November 18, 2009, 16.00

Venue: The Bridport Town Hall, East Street, Bridport

City and Postcode: Dorset, DT6 3HA

Description: Author talk

Price: £7.00

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Author Name: Chris Patten

Event Name: What Next? Surviving the 21st Century

Date/Time: November 18, 2009, 18.30

Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics

City and Postcode: London

Description: The list of challenges facing the world is growing rapidly from climate change to nuclear proliferation and nobody seems to have much of a grip on what is going on. Hosted by Global Policy, a new innovative and interdisciplinary journal, this debate will discuss what we know in each of these areas and how progress can be made. Howard Davies is director of LSE. Chris Patten is chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities and author of What Next? Surviving the 21st Century. A former MP, he is best known for being the last Governor of Hong Kong and, at one time, Chairman of the Conservative Party and former European Commissioner for External Relations.

Price: Free but booking required

Author Name: Diarmaid MacCulloch

Event Name: The Future of Christianity

Date/Time: November 18, 2009, 18.30

Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

City and Postcode: London

Description: Diarmaid MacCulloch examines the history of Christianity, showing what an unexpected product modern Western Christianity is from an Eastern religion whose centre might easily have been Baghdad rather than Rome. Diarmaid MacCulloch is professor of the history of the church at Oxford. His BBC TV series A History of Christianity will appear this autumn.

Price: Free

Author Name: Clara Salama

Event Name: Book Now Literature Festival 2009

Date/Time: November 18, 2009, 19.30

Venue: The Old Town Hall, Richmond, Whittaker Avenue

City and Postcode: Richmond upon Thames, TW9 1TP

Description: Clara Salaman taking about her new book 'Shame on You'.

Price: Free

Author Name: Amartya Sen

Event Name: The Pursuit of Justice

Date/Time: November 19, 2009, 17.00

Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad St

City and Postcode: Oxford, OX1 3

Description: PROFESSOR AMARTYA SEN, Harvard University, will deliver a Distinguished Public Lecture. The lecture will be chaired by Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University. There will be a reception after the lecture at 6.45pm at Blackwell's Bookshop

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Author Name: Penelope Lively

Event Name: Chorleywood Bookshop Festival 09

Date/Time: November 19, 2009, 19.30

Venue: The Russell School Hall, Brushwood Drive

City and Postcode: Chorleywood

Description: As part of Chorleywood Literary Festival come and meet Penelope Lively in person and discuss her book "Consequences".

Price: Tickets £5 to include refreshments

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Author Name: Ali Smith

Event Name: Bridport Literary Festival

Date/Time: November 21, 2009, 11.30

Venue: The Bull Hotel, 34 East St

City and Postcode: Dorset, DT6 3LF

Description: Ali Smith and Jackie Kay in conversation. On the eve of the announcement of the 2009 Bridport Prize winners, this year's illustrious judges will read from, and talk about, their own work.

Price: £10.00

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Author Name: Helen Dunmore

Event Name: Nottingham Readers' Day

Date/Time: November 21, 2009, 15.30

Venue: County Hall, Bridgford

City and Postcode: Nottingham, NG2 27Q

Description: Nottinghamshire Libraries Readers' Day - Guest speakers including Helen Dunmore.

Price: Free

Author Name: Christopher Andrew

Event Name: Christopher Andrew: Defence of the Realm

Date/Time: November 24, 2009, 19.00

Venue: Blackwells, 48-51 Broad Street

City and Postcode: Oxford, OX1 3BQ

Description: Christopher Andrew will be appearing at Blackwell Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford to talk about his new book Defence of the Realm. Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 appears as MI5 reaches its hundredth anniversary. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service from its foundation in 1909, charged with combating Imperial Germany's espionage operations in the United Kingdom; through two world wars and then the cold war; and up to its present roles in counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. Christopher Andrew, author of many books including The Mitrokhin Archive, is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Cambridge University and Chair of the British Intelligence Study Group. He has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and the Australian National University and a regular presenter of BBC Radio and TV documentaries.

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Author Name: Charlie Higson

Event Name: Charlie Higson talks about new zombie horror series, The Enemy

Date/Time: November 25, 2009, 18.30-19.00

Venue: Bristol Grammar School, University Road

City and Postcode: Bristol, BS8 1SR

Description: Charlie Higson, author of the Young Bond series, will be talking about his brand new zombie horror series, The Enemy.

Price: £5, to book visit website

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Author Name: Daoud Hari

Event Name: Darfur Week

Date/Time: November 30, 2009, 19.00

Venue: UCL, 20 Gordon Street Chemistry Building, Christopher Ingold Lecture Theatre

City and Postcode: London, WC1 6BT

Description: Daoud Hari, author of The Translator will be talking about his experiences taking journalists into Darfur as the opening event of UCL's Darfur Week.

Price: The talk is free and open to the public.

Author Name: Jay Griffiths

Event Name: Jay Griffiths at Exeter University

Date/Time: December 10, 2009, 18.00

Venue: Exeter University, Queen Building, Lecture Theatre 1

City and Postcode: Exeter, EX4 4QJ

Description: Author Jay Griffiths will be talking about her book Wild: An Elemental Journey.

Price: £5 tickets at door tickets can also be booked through The Pheonix Arts Centre Exeter, Bradninch Place, Gandy St, Exeter.

Event contact information: 01392 667 080