21 - 29 June 2008
Beryl Bainbridge & Francis King – in conversation
Wednesday 25 June - 2 pm
Memorial Library, The Portsmouth Grammar School
Celebrating Olivia Manning
Booker prize winning author Dame Beryl Bainbridge whose novels include
An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself and According to Queeney
- and Francis King – hailed by The Daily Telegraph as ’a novelist
of discernment’ – will talk about their work in this special
event. To mark the centenary year of the birth in Portsmouth of Olivia
Manning, writer of Fortunes of War, currently in a new dramatisation on
BBC Radio 4, these two highly regarded writers who knew her well, will
also talk about her life and work and share their memories of her.
£8 (£6 conc, £1 U18) VIS
