About this Event
Join Alison Light and Margaret Drabble for an evening of conversation on memoir writing, discussing their two new releases -- Alison's Red Red Robin and Margaret's The Great Good Places.
Alison Light is a writer and critic. Her book A Radical Romance won the PEN Ackerley prize for memoir. Her other books include the much-acclaimed Mrs Woolf and the Servants and Common People: The History of an English Family, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is an Honorary Fellow in History and English and Pembroke College Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature.
*Please note that the Auditorium at Foyles is fully accessible from the Ground floor lifts.Tickets: £10 General Admission, £8 Foyalty Member, £28 Book and Ticket, inc. a copy of Red, Red Robin (RRP £22)
Venue: The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road*
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 8.00 to GBP 22.00
