Calendar: South East

Russell Miller on The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle

Sept 2009 - March 2010

The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle is the definitive biography of an enduringly fascinating figure, told with panache and full of new material unavailable to any previous biographers.http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1844139220

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Ian Mortimer on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

Sept 2009 - Feb 2010

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England is an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a 'completely different world': England in the Middle Ages.
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224079948

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Michael Holroyd on A Strange Eventful History

Sept 2009 - March 2010

A major literary event from 'one of the greatest biographers of our age'. http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099497182

Michael is available for library events and talks to reading groups.

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Tim Harris on Players

Sept - Dec 2009

The men, women and animals who created the world of sport - a companion piece to the superlative 'Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know'

Tim is available for library events and talks to reading groups.

http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224082779

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Yaba Badoe on True Murder

August 2009 - January 2010

Yaba is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

'True Murder' is an entrancing debut by an accomplished film-maker.

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099523329

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Raphael Honigstein on Englischer Fussball

August 2009 - January 2010

Raphael is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

'Englischer Fussball' is a German's-eye view on our national obsession.

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=022408013X

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Nicola Keegan on Swimming

July 2009

Nicola is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

This is a debut not to be missed - Nicola Keegan has a new voice in fiction, with a dark edge reminiscent of Lionel Shriver

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0701182857

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Karen Armstrong on The Case for God

July 2009

Karen is available for library events. For more information, click continue reading.

The Case fir God is an essentuak book for our times, answering bestselling atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in arguing that faith still has a fundemental role in the modern world.

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1847920349

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Julia Blackburn on The Three of Us

June - December 2009

Julia is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.

A memoir like no other, The Three of Us is a touching and tragic love story about a dysfunctional family.

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Sarah Wise on The Blackest Streets

June - December 2009

Sarah is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.

The Blackest Streets is a brilliant exploration of the 'seedy side of Victorian London' from one of our most talented young historians.

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John Campbell on Pistols at Dawn

June - December 2009

Joe is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.

A brilliant book about political rivalries through the ages, from the prize-winning biographer and historian.

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Sulaiman Addonia on The Consequences of Love

January - December 2009

Sulaiman is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.

A gifted young storyteller presents an eye-opening, authentic and terrifying tale of illicit love in Saudi Arabia.

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099521148

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Tom Lee on Greenfly

January - December 2009

Tom is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1846551943

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D.J. Taylor on Ask Alice

January - December 2009

D.J. Taylor is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.

A wonderful novel of concealment and subterfuge, sweeping from Kansas to London, from 1904 to 1936, by the author of Kept - about a woman's rise and fall, the choices she makes, the chances she takes and the secret which will undo her. For more information see: http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=070118356X

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Sara Stockbridge on Hammer

January - December 2009

Sara is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book.

Meet Grace Hammer - matriarch and jewel thief - on the run in Victorian London in this vigorous and stylish debut by actress Sara Stockbridge. For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0701182237

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Caroline Moorhead in Dancing to The Precipice

January - December 2009

Caroline is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book.

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=070117904X

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Author Available

December 2008 - December 2009

Visits can be geared toward the pre-school or the primary age groups, with readings from the book, listening to recordings of some of the more remarkable bird calls, discussion of seasons in the different hemispheres, examination of some seeds of trees, and crafts and activities based on those in the book. For older children, there is a writing workshop combined with nature observation and sketching, discussion of the research involved for "The Big Field : a Child's Year Under the Southern Cross", and more discussion of the Atlantic Rainforest and the organisations working to restore it. There can also be an art and poetry workshop with a discussion of medieval illuminated manuscripts and how they were the inspiration for the pattern of the artwork in the book. Sessions last approximately one half-hour for very young children to one and a half hours for older children.

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Thomas Wright on Oscar's Books

Depends on availability

Thomas Wright is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.

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Kate Colquhoun - Taste

April - September 2009

Kate Colquhoun is an energetic and enthusiastic personality, passionate and hugely well informed about the history of food. Kate is available for library events for audiences of 40 +

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