Book Now 2008: 23-25 November
Sunday 23 November
Desert Island Books
If you were marooned on a desert island, what books would you take to sustain you while you waited for rescue? Novelist Lee Langley is back by popular demand with four literary guests.
Orange Tree Theatre, 7.00pm, £13 (£11 Concessions)
To book tickets for this event, please call the Orange Tree Theatre Box Office on 020 8940 3633
Monday 24 November
Richard Fortey: Dry Store Room No.1 (The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum)
Richard Fortey is former Senior Paleontologist at London’s Natural History Museum and he takes us behind locked doors to give a fascinating account of a hidden world of untold treasures. He combines rigorous professional learning with a gift for prose that sparkles with wit.
“Richard Fortey is without peer among science writers” - Bill Bryson
National Physical Laboratory, 7.30pm, £8 (£7 Concessions)
Tuesday 25 November
Andrew Graham-Dixon: Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel
In the autumn of 1508, Michelangelo put the first brushstroke to his most ambitious creation, his vast fresco cycle recounting the legends in the Book of Genesis.
In his new study of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, writer and broadcaster Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the fascinating human story behind its creation and analyses its many layers of meaning.
Hampton Court Palace, 7.30pm, £12 (£10 Concessions)