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EVENT WARWICK BOOKS READING GROUP
DATE Thursday 24 April 2008, 6pm
Discussing ‘Then We Came To The End’ by Joshua Ferris.
VENUE Warwick Books, 24 Market Place, Warwick CV34 4SL
TICKETS £?
DETAILS 01926 499939 / warwickbooks@tiscali.co.uk
 
EVENT AUTHOR TALK : Stephen Robinson
DATE Wednesday 30 April 2008, 7pm
Stephen Robinson will be talking about his authorised biography of Bill Deedes ‘The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes’.
W F Deedes was a legend of 20th-century journalism. When he died the Press Association announced "It is with deep regret that the Telegraph Media Group announces the death of Lord Deedes, who passed away this evening at his home in Aldington, Kent… Bill Deedes was a giant among men, a towering figure in journalism, an icon in British politics and a humanitarian
to his very core ". He was part of the fabric of The Telegraph, and perhaps the greatest journalist of his age.
The young Bill Deedes was the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's infamous war reporter William Boot in the novel Scoop. He also achieved fame outside Fleet Street as "Dear Bill", addressee of
the "Denis Thatcher" fortnightly letter in Private Eye.
His career in newspapers spanned 76 years and he was in politics for 24, including a spell in the Cabinet. With a quarter of a ton of luggage, he went with Evelyn Waugh to cover Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia. He won an MC in the Second World War, but was stricken for the rest of his life by the loss of so many of his men, agonisingly close to VE Day. Afterwards, he returned to 'The Daily Telegraph', becoming its Editor from 1975 to 1986. But after retiring, aged 72, Deedes reinvented himself as a roving correspondent and, undaunted by his increasing infirmity, he covered natural disasters and bloody conflicts alike, building in the process a remarkable friendship with the late Diana, Princess of Wales when he became a stalwart of the anti-landmine campaign.
Stephen Robinson’s book has attracted huge interest, not least in all sections of the Press, and this talk is for anyone interested in
politics, history, current affairs, journalism and reporting.
VENUE Warwick Library
TICKETS £?
DETAILS 01926 499939 / warwickbooks@tiscali.co.uk
 
EVENT Warwick Words Literary Quiz
DATE Friday 9 May 2008, 7.30pm
Test your knowledge of all things literary with the Warwick Words Literary Quiz. A fun evening including a fish and chip supper,
prizes and an appearance from Warwick Poet Laureate Jane Holland. Enter a team of up to 6 people. Book individually or as a couple and we will add you to a team. Licensed bar.
All proceeds will go towards Warwick Words 2008.
VENUE Lord Leycester’s Hospital, Warwick
TICKETS £12.50 (£10 for Festival Friends or Volunteers)
Tickets from Warwick Books, Warwick Library, or Warwick Words 01926 427056 / info@warwickwords.co.uk
DETAILS  
 
EVENT AUTHOR TALK : Brian McArthur
DATE Wednesday 14 May 2008, 7pm
Brian McArthur will be talking about his book ‘For King and Country : Voices From The First World War’.
Brian MacArthur is consultant editor at the Daily Telegraph and freelance journalist and historian. He was associate editor of the Times, founder editor of Today and the Times Higher Education
Supplement, editor of the Western Morning News and former deputy editor of the Sunday Times. He has written or edited many memorable books including The Penguin Book of Historic
Speeches, The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches, lives of Eddie Shah and Princess Diana, Despatches From The Gulf War, and the memorable and gut-wrenching ‘Surviving The
Sword : Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East 1942-5’
In ‘For King and Country’ MacArthur has produced, as Roy Hattersley says, an anthology that it impossible to read without comparing the folly of the politicians and the generals with the quiet heroism of the men they sent to die. “There are pages of this book that will bring tears to your eyes, tears evoked by horror, pity and often admiration” (The Times).
There are so many unforgettable moments : the first tanks ('they eat up houses!') walking right over German trenches; the artist Paul Nash's painting of No Man's Land - 'the ground was not mud but an octopus of sucking clay' he said; a man sliced in two by a shell whose lower half went on running; the pieces of lung coughed up by frothing and gurgling men with blackened faces.
Brian Macarthur has as you will realise the capacity to get under your skin, and to make you think deeply about humankind. There
are over 900 books on the First World War, but surely this is up there with the best.
VENUE Warwick Library
TICKETS £?
DETAILS 01926 499939 / warwickbooks@tiscali.co.uk
 
EVENT PureandGoodandRight
DATE Wednesday 21May 2008, 7.30pm  (tbc)
Guest : tbc
With supporting poet to be announced, and MC Sean Kelly.
And budding local poets will take the stage in our open mic sessions to present their own varied and wonderful poetry!
VENUE The Fox, 32 Clarendon Avenue, Leamington Spa CV32 4RZ
TICKETS £3 / £2 students / OAPs
DETAILS pure@kellywit.com / www.kellywit.com/pages/puregoodandright.php

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