Forthcoming Events

Thursday November 24th 2011

6.30 pm at The Jubilee Hall: P. D. James will be talking about her new novel, Death comes to Pemberley.  Tickets for the event available now: £11.00 each.

Saturday August 20th 2011

5.30 pm at The Aldeburgh Bookshop: the launch of Jon Canter's new novel, Worth.  Worth is about friendship, family and the perils of loving your neighbor. It is a fast-paced, wildly entertaining and blackly comic new novel from the inimitable Jon Canter.

Richard and Sarah meet in London, fall in love, and after some complications, marry. To escape the rat-race – and their ex-partners – they decide to move to the countryside, and buy a cottage in the pretty Suffolk village of Worth. At first, they struggle to find friends, but then they meet Catherine, who’s recently moved into the cottage next door. As a single woman, she admires their love for each other. As a couple, they admire her uncompromising nature. On weekday nights in sleepy Worth, with nothing to do, the trio’s pastime is each other. A delightful friendship ensues.

But there are things to Catherine that don’t add up. Topics avoided, questions unanswered. She describes a manipulative but never-seen sister, who she says is making her life hell. Richard and Sarah offer advice as best they can, but they are starting to feel uneasy. The rural idyll is beginning to fade. With Richard struggling to find work, Sarah, who’s pregnant, takes a job with a woman she meets at a conference – a connection that draws the couple deeper into the life of their neighbour – far deeper than they could ever have imagined.

Friday July 22nd 2011 at The Thorpeness Country Club.  The Aldeburgh Literary Festival in association with the Life Writing MA course at the University of East Anglia will be presenting a talk on the Life Writing MA.  Further details will be announced soon, and tickets will be available for sale.  Do keep this date for what promises to be a fascinating insight into the process of writing biography when established writers and new authors will discuss their published books and work in progress.The launch of Reggie Oliver's new novel, The Dracula Papers. 

In the Easter holidays we launched Christine Truman's charming book of verse for children.