Abraxas Journal of Internation Esoteric Studies - Cambridge special launch
Abraxas Special Issue: Selected papers from the ‘Charming Intentions: Occultism, Magic and the History of Art’ Cambridge Conference
Abraxas is a bi-annual journal of contemporary esoteric art and culture printed in a high quality format. Our first special issue, titled ‘Charming Intentions: Occultism, Magic and the History of Art’, will be launched on May 25th, 2013.
Presented in its usual ...
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Treadwells Books & Store Street Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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A Very English Magical Manuscript
Tonight we see Elizabethan ritual magic through the lens of an unusual manu_. Dating to c. 1577-1583, it contains invocations to the fairy king Oberion, a charm to summon woodland spirits into a crystal, dramatic illustrations of spirits, a quasi-Goetic demons list, and mentions of Roman gods. Daniel Harms unpacks some of this text's secrets, and even suggests a possible connection to those re ...
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Treadwells Books
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London
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United Kingdom
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European Literature Night 2013
Now in its fifth year, and held simultaneously in capital cities across the continent, European Literature Night takes you on an enthralling reading journey across vivid cultural landscapes. The British Library hosts eight exceptional writers, from groundbreaking new talent to leading names. Joining BBC journalist and presenter Rosie Goldsmith for readings and conversation with Norbert Gstrein (Au ...
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The British Library
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London
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United Kingdom
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Get Closer to God Book Signing Event
You are invited to attend a book signing for author Michelle M. Daniel. Please join Michelle for this special event and invite a friend!
If you already have a copy of Get Closer to God, buy one for a friend - this book makes a great gift!
We hope to see you there!
For more information, please email author Michelle at getclosertogod@live.com. Can’t make the event? Visit our online bookst ...
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Bible Emporium
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MIAMI
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United States
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B S Johnson: His Life and Legacy
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the birth of B S Johnson and the publication of a new anthology of his prose writing, a panel discuss the life and legacy of one of post-war Britain's most experimental writers. Speakers include Jonathan Coe, author of Like a Fiery Elephant - The Story of B S Johnson and Philip Tew and Julia Jordan, joint editors of the forthcoming Well Done God! Selected P ...
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The British Library
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London
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United Kingdom
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William Dalrymple - Return of a King - The Battle For Afghanistan
Award-winning historian and best-selling author William Dalrymple returns to Asia House with his dazzling new book, a history which resonates with contemporary politics and reads like a richly drawn novel. Using previously undiscovered Afghan sources, and with a complex set of characters, from shahs and amirs, British generals and Russian ambassadors, Return of the King presents the full picture o ...
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Asia House
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Story of Crime Fiction
Mark Lawson, who recently wrote and presented BBC Radio 4 series Foreign Bodies: A History of Modern Europe Through Literary Detectives, is joined by crime fiction writers, P D James, Henry Sutton and Jason Webster to discuss the history of the genre, their favourite classics and their own work.
P D James is one of the great crime fiction writers and the recipient of many prizes and honours. F ...
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The British Library
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London
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United Kingdom
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Anne de Courcy - The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting During the Raj
At the height of the Raj, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India. Countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men at home, followed in their wake with the simple goal of finding a husband. They were known as 'the Fishing Fleet'.
With men outnumbering women by roughly four to one, romances were conducted at alarming speed and marriages were freq ...
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Asia House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Literature Greatest Parties
In literature, the party is a useful literary device, not only for social comment and satire, but as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in love, fall out or even get murdered. Some depict real events, like the Duchess of Richmond’s Ball in Thackeray's Vanity Fair; others draw on the author's experience, such as Lady Metroland’s party in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies; yet others c ...
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Treadwells Books
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London
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United Kingdom
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Roundhouse Poetry Collective Showcase
Come and join the new class of Roundhouse Poetry Collective for an evening of razor-sharp, crafted words from a selection of the most exciting young poets in London! The group have been working with acclaimed spoken word artist Polarbear for the past ten weeks to develop their individual voices and hone their performance skills. Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance.
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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Where Hornbills Fly - A Journey with the Headhunters of Borneo
Erik Jensen lived in Sarawak, Malaysia in the 1960s with the Iban Dyaks, once (in)famous as the headhunters of Borneo. He learnt their language and customs and worked alongside them as, faced with a changing world, their traditional way of life became increasingly untenable. When Iban rose up in protest Jensen was asked to undertake a development project to help steer them towards a settled way ...
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Asia House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Japan Society Book Club – Kwaidan, Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
In the chill of November the Japan Society Book Club will be making a foray into the mysteries of bygone folklore, with a collection of Lafcadio Hearn’s most famous ghost stories.
Kwaidan - Stories and Studies of Strange Things, contains stories Hearn claims to have heard first-hand on his travels around Japan, alongside translations of old Japanese texts and tales of his own invention. From bl ...
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5th View
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Writing Platform
The Writing Platform is an informal networking event designed to offer affordable practical advice and take-away information for published and self-published writers, as well as small and medium-sized publishers looking to find out more about digital publishing, social media and developing online reader audiences.
Attendees can pre-arrange one-to-one sessions with our range of experts covering ...
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Rich Mix
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London
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United Kingdom
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TONGUE FU
Tongue Fu round off 2012 in style with a bumper bill of literary exhibitionists, all performing with improvised music and film from The Tongue Fu Band and CR&D.
"It's poetry, but not as you know it…amazing” The Guardian
featuring
Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright, performer and graphic designer/artist. Published by Penned In The Margins, Salt and Flipped Eye, his plays - The ...
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Rich Mix
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London
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United Kingdom
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Ori Gersht
Join us for a drink and meet photographer and film maker Ori Gersht who will be signing copies of his new book History Repeating. This is the most comprehensive survey to date of the photographs, films and videos of this acclaimed artist and will be available at the special price of £35.00 on the night.
This event is supported by the publisher Lund Humphries, Mummery + Schnelle and the Br ...
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The Photographers Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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A Poet and Bin-Laden
A Poet and Bin-Laden is a novel set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond.
The story begins on the eve of 9/11, with the narrator’s haunting de_ion of the airplane attack on the Twin Towers as seen on TV while he is on holiday in Central Asia. Subsequent chapters shift backwards and forwards in tim ...
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PUSHKIN HOUSE
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London
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United Kingdom
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Deborah Levy
Booker-shortlisted novelist Deborah Levy will read from and discuss her profound and thrilling novel Swimming Home.
As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holi ...
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Keats House (Wentworth Place)
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London
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United Kingdom
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Cornelia Funke
Celebrated children's author Cornelia Funke will be answering your questions and signing copies of her spooky new novel Ghost Knight.
Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft never expected to enjoy boarding school, or to be confronted by a pack of vengeful ghosts. And then he meets Ella, a quirky new friend with a taste for adventure...Together, Jon and Ella must work to uncover the secrets of a cent ...
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Daunt Books Hampstead
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London
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United Kingdom
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Stuff and Nonsense with Matt Black (Off the Shelf)
We are holding an event at St Aidan's Church on Manor Lane, S2 on Saturday 20th October at 11.30am as part of the annual Off the Shelf Festival of Writing and Reading.
The event will feature local poet Matt Black and is for adults and children. It will include poetry and history of Sheffield Markets, Matt's Nonsense Olympics which are based on the works of Edward Lear, hear Matt recite ...
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St Aidans Church
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Sheffield
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United Kingdom
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Celebrating British Hindi Literature
Tejendra Sharma has been creating literature both in Hindi as well as English for the last 35 years. He has, to his credit, 7 collections of short stories, one book of poetry and ghazals, two CDs of Ghazals and one audio CD of short stories in Hindi. He has written three books in English as well. His works have been translated into English, Urdu, Punjabi, Nepali, Oriya, Marathi, Gujarati and Czech ...
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Nehru Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Culture Now: Owen Jones
Join us for this lunchtime talk with writer and journalist Owen Jones.
Owen Jones is a leading author, commentator and recently appointed columnist for The Independent. His first book, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class was published by Verso in June 2011. Coming to considerable acclaim, Chavs was heavily discussed in the British press and many international publications alike. The b ...
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Institute of Contemporary Arts
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London
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United Kingdom
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Stephen Gill
Join us for and drink and meet photographer Stephen Gill who will be signing copies of his new book Coexistence
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The Photographers Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Barbican Library Tour
Free informal 60 minute session which includes an introduction to the layout of Barbican Library and information on services available. An evening tour at 6pm is available on request.
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Book launch: Research and Evaluation for Busy Pactitioners - a time saving guide
We are delighted to host the launch of Dr Helen Kara's new book, Research and Evaluation for Busy Practitioners. The launch will include a panel discussion of research with Jane Lewis, AcSS, Research and Evaluation Consultant; Karl Wilding, Head of Research at NCVO, Simon Haslam, Board Member of the Social Research Association; and Helen Kara, independent researcher, an exhibition of art by Ca ...
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The British Library
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London
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United Kingdom
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Carol Mavor
Join Carol Mavor for a reading to celebrate her new book Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans Soleil and Hiroshima mon amour. Mavor's personal and genre-defying reflections on the use of images in postwar French culture and literature register disturbing truths about loss and regret, violence and history. In conversation with Marina Warner, author of Stran ...
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The Photographers Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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An audiovisual presentation on the book Mapping India. Dr. Manosi Lahiri
Author and professional geographer, Manosi Lahiri, writes about the early maps of Hindustan in her new book on the history of cartography, Mapping India. She traces the first maps of Hindustan, based on the accounts of overland travellers and explorers. When the sea route from the West to India was discovered in 1498, Europeans arrived by the ocean route. As the Portuguese, Dutch, French and Briti ...
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Nehru Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Images of Japan 1885-1912: Scenes, Tales and Flowers – Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Former British Ambassador
Drawing from extensive research, Sir Hugh Cortazzi will discuss his latest book Images of Japan 1885-1912: Scenes, Tales and Flowers, published by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. This introduction to the multiple forms of visual material, created in Japan from the latter part of the Meiji era and intended for European and American consumption, presents a wide v ...
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The Oriental Club
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London
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United Kingdom
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Dickens Day 2012: Dickens and Popular Culture
Dickens Day, now in its 26th year, is celebrating 2012 with a theme that explores Dickens’s popularity and his engagement with non-elite cultures from his own time to the present. On the evidence of bicentenary Dickens fervour, the author is as popular now as he has ever been.
This year has been punctuated by Dickens serials on TV, heartfelt tributes from popular writers, mass-selling biography ...
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Senate House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Meet David Walliams and get a signed copy of his autobiography
Join us at Selfridges London on Friday 12 October to meet the much-loved David Walliams and get a signed copy of his new autobiography, Camp David.
David Walliams is a comedian, actor and writer, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the hugely successfully BBC sketch comedy Little Britain. He is an active fundraiser, memorably swimming both the English Channel and the Thames, as we ...
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Selfridges
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London
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United Kingdom
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Meet Will Young and get a signed copy of his autobiography
Join us at Selfridges London on Thursday 11 October to meet Will Young as he signs copies of his new autobiography, ‘Funny Peculiar’.
Will Young shot to fame after winning the inaugural series of Pop Idol and has since become an internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter, enjoying three number one albums.
His new autobiography entitled 'Funny Peculiar' gives a revealing look into W ...
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Selfridges
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London
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United Kingdom
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Lesley Downer - The Geisha and the Modern World
Lesley Downer is one of the very few westerners ever to have broken into the closed and mysterious world of the geisha. To research her latest book, Across a Bridge of Dreams, she returned to Japan to find out what has become of them and their world in the 21st century. Are the geisha becoming extinct, as people claim? If not, how and why do they survive in the modern world? How have the economic ...
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Asia House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Inside the Mind of the Taliban
Poetry of the Taliban
The Taliban are synonymous with the war in Afghanistan. While much has been written about their military tactics, media strategy and harsh treatment of women, the cultural and sometimes less overtly political representation of their identity, the Taliban's other face, is often overlooked.
Criticised by many as mere propaganda, Poetry of the Taliban offers an unfet ...
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Asia House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Japan Society Book Club – Kinshu: Autumn Brocade by Teru Miyamoto
As summer leaves begin to fall in London, the Japan Society Book Club will be delving into Teru Miyamoto’s Kinshu: Autumn Brocade. First published in Japan in 1980, English readers had to wait twenty-five years for Roger K. Thomas’s excellent translation.
The story unfolds through an exchange of letters between a young man and woman who have been divorced for ten years but meet again by chance. ...
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5th View Waterstones
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Times Cheltenham Literary Festival
This autumn The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival will welcome over 600 of the world's finest creative and political minds in 10 days of thought-provoking discussion and debate. Now in its 63rd year, Cheltenham welcomes an extraordinarily varied line-up of writers, actors, poets and politicians including Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan, screen icon Roger Moore, author Ian McEwan and exp ...
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Cheltenham Town Hall
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Cheltenham
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United Kingdom
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London-s Radical South Asian Writers-Retro Style
Daljit Nagra, Shyama Perera, Bidisha With Susheila Nasta
A story detailing a terrorist's mindset; anti-racist poetry; fiction about women's oppression - what do all of these have in common? The fact that they were written by South Asian writers living in London in the interwar period of the twentieth century.
Join our panel as they read from some of the revolutionary work produced ...
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Asia House
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London
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United Kingdom
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