Book Now 2008: 7-9 November
Friday 7 November
Mavis Cheek: Amenable Women
Best-selling author Mavis Cheek’s latest novel is a witty, heartwarming story of two lives connecting through history. Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s fourth wife, captures the attention of a local history researcher and the story of these two women living centuries apart is interwoven with a little-known part of history.
Old Town hall, 7.30pm, £8 (£7 Concessions)
Saturday 8 November
Judith Mackrell: The Bloomsbury ballerina
Top dance critic Judith Mackrell tells the remarkable story of ballerina Lydia Lopokova, star of the Ballets Russes, who became the wife of the economist and member of the Bloomsbury group, John Maynard Keynes.
“Judith Mackrell shows us exactly what made Lopokova one of the last century’s true originals” - The Sunday Times
The Coach House at Orleans House Gallery, 3.00pm, £8 (£7 Concessions)
Sunday 9 November
John Milton 400th Anniversary
Until the 20th century, Milton was accepted as the second greatest poet in the English language, eclipsed only by Shakespeare, and yet today he is seldom read. Lance Pierson explores whether Milton’s reputation should be restored, and performs extracts from Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Comus, Lycidas and the Sonnets. Lance Pierson is a professional poetry performer.
The Coach House at Orleans House Gallery, 3.00pm, £8 (£7 Concessions)