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Event Series Wanstead Book Festival

Wanstead Book Festival presents: Tim Burrows

Wanstead Library Churchill Room Spratt Hall Road, Wanstead, London, United Kingdom

Until 1965, Wanstead was truly a part of Essex, and even now there are tell-tale signs all around us of a time before it became part of a London borough. In the 1980s, though, Essex became the stuff of tabloid headlines, supposed stereotypes and populist politics. Author Tim Burrows, in his book The Invention of… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Tim Burrows

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Event Series Wanstead Book Festival

Wanstead Book Festival presents: Helen Day – Visions of our future

Wanstead Library Churchill Room Spratt Hall Road, Wanstead, London, United Kingdom

Ladybird Books are instantly recognisable. As well as helping generations of children to learn to read, they represented a vision of how people perceived their lives as things were changing around them. Helen Day is the unofficial - but unchallenged - historian of the role the books played in our lives. She will be celebrating… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Helen Day – Visions of our future

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Event Series Wanstead Book Festival

Wanstead Book Festival presents Sohom Das

Wanstead Library Churchill Room Spratt Hall Road, Wanstead, London, United Kingdom

Forensic psychiatrist Sohom Das has spent 15 years trying to understand, treat and rehabilitate dangerous people. His work takes him to high-security prisons and securely locked hospital wards across the country, as well as to courtrooms where he gives evidence as an expert witness. 'The vast majority of psychiatric patients are not violent,' he says.… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents Sohom Das

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Event Series Wanstead Book Festival

Wanstead Book Festival presents: Paterson Joseph

Wanstead Library Churchill Room Spratt Hall Road, Wanstead, London, United Kingdom

It’s time everyone knew the story of Charles Ignatius Sancho. In the mid-1700s, a boy born on a slave ship found his way to Georgian London and miraculously survived. The boy grew and went on to tread the boards of London’s theatres, become a composer, lead the fight to end slavery and become the very… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Paterson Joseph

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Event Series Wanstead Book Festival

Wanstead Book Festival presents: Jonathan Coe

Wanstead Library Churchill Room Spratt Hall Road, Wanstead, London, United Kingdom

Jonathan Coe is one of Britain’s greatest living novelists whose books shine a light on how we as a society see ourselves. From his hit 1994 book What a Carve Up, through The Rotters Club, Number 11 and Middle England, he has found a moving, funny and true way to tell the story of Britain.… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Jonathan Coe

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Event Series Wanstead Book Festival

Wanstead Book Festival presents: Will Gompertz

Wanstead Library Churchill Room Spratt Hall Road, Wanstead, London, United Kingdom

Artists see things differently. Will Gompertz is familiar to audiences throughout the country from his years as the BBC’s Arts Editor. For years Will was a fixture on the Ten O’Clock News as he would introduce Turner or Booker Prize winners, or explain why a statue or painting had been sold for record prices. No… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Will Gompertz

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