Sat 24 October
6:30pm
Louise Doughty and Jill Dawson
Sat 24 October
6:30pm
Louise Doughty
Louise Doughty is the internationally bestselling author of ten novels, including Platform Seven, filmed for ITVX; Black Water, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; the bestseller Apple Tree Yard, adapted as a hit mini series for BBC One; and Whatever You Love, nominated for the Costa Novel Award and the Women’s Prize for fiction. Her most recent book is a memoir, On This Spot Fell One Tear of Love, about her parents’ secret love affair in the 1950s.
JILL DAWSON
Jill Dawson is the prize-winning author of twelve novels which include Fred and Edie, The Great Lover (about the poet Rupert Brooke) and The Crime Writer (about author Patricia Highsmith). She is also the editor of six anthologies of poetry and short stories and one poetry chapbook. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds an honorary doctorate. Her latest novel Pixie is ‘a decadent retelling of the life of Pamela “Pixie” Colman Smith, who illustrated the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck.’
Two of the UK’s most acclaimed contemporary writers talk about their latest books, their writing processes and their lives. Between them, they have written in many genres including fiction, non-fiction, screenwriting and journalism.
How does a writer move between the invented and the real, and how do they choose what form a book or a work will take? Come for the insights into two working writers’ lives and leave inspired.
The Enterprise Centre, UEA | 6.30pm
‘Tender, thoughtful, beautifully written, this is a wonderful and gentle memoir about childhood and class, loss and memory.’
Kate Mosse on On This Spot Fell One Tear of Love
‘A captivating insight into the life of the most famous occult artist you’ve never heard of.’
Paula Hawkins on Pixie