Book Events

On Sunday 4 October at 4.30 I shall be at the Ilkley Literary Festival, in St Margaret's Hall, talking about my biography of William Golding to Professor Gweno Williams of York St John University.

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I'll be talking to Mark Lawson about my biography of William Golding in the Conference Centre at the British Library tomorrow, Tuesday 29 September at 6.30 p.m.

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On Friday 18 September I shall be talking about my biography of William Golding in Marlborough Town Hall at 7 p.m. Golding grew up in Marlborough in the house his parents leased at 29 The Green, and his father was science master at Marlborough Grammar School.

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On Saturday 12 September I'll be at the Dublin Book Festival talking about my Golding Biography and Lord of the Flies in a joint event with Declan Kiberd who will talk about his book Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living. It will (I think) be about the competing claims of Golding's novel and Joyce's to be literary classics - also about why Ulysses comes high in the list of books that people have tried to read but failed (Moby Dick and Proust's A la recherche are the only ones that even come close to it). The event is at 4.30 in the Pavilion Theatre Dun Laoghaire.
About bees: mine have left Apiguard more or less untouched, hardly any has gone down into the brood chamber. Is this common?

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I shall be talking about my biography of William Golding in Salisbury at the Guildhall on Friday 4 September at 7.30. Golding taught at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, from 1945, when he came out of the navy, until 1960, so I think there is a good chance there will be people who knew him or were taught by him in the audience. Salisbury Cathedral spire was visible from his classroom window, and inspired his novel The Spire.