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Wednesday 28 September 2016

Newsletter, October 2016

Rye Festival: This year's festival has included several "Literary" events, including The Oldie's Literary Lunch at the George on 21 September (Speakers: Alison Weir on "Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen"; Ferdinand Mount on "English Voices"; and Wensley Clarkson on "Sexy Beasts: The Real Inside Story of the Hatton Garden Mob"), 

Talks were also given in the course of the Festival by: Bridget Keenan (Full Marks for Trying), Anna Pavord (Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places), Andreas Prindl (Henry James), David Lough (No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money), Thomas Grant (Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories), Anne Sebba (Les Parisiennes), Henry Jeffreys (Empire of Booze), Loyd Grossman (Benjamin West and the Struggle to be Modern), Jane Grant (In the Steps of Exceptional Women), Joan Bakewell (Stop the Clocks), Thomas Mogford (Murder in a Seaside Town).

 Other Rye Festival events with a "literary" flavour included a showing of the film of Stella Gibbons's "Cold Comfort Farm" and Martin Wimbush's celebration of John Betjeman, Philip Larkin and Alan Bennett.

If you have enjoyed any of these events, or the books talked about, why not write a short review for the blog?

 Jonty Driver will be at the Rye Bookshop on 26 October, 6-8 pm talking about his new book, Some Schools. (See below in August newsletter for more details)

The October meeting of the Winchelsea Literary Society is on Friday 21 October, when Gillian Southgate will be talking about "How America Found its Writing Voice"
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