Programme 2024 | ald-lit-trust

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2024 Alderney Literary Festival Programme

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Friday 22nd March 2024

10.00 - 11.00

Opening Panel Discussion on the Festival theme

Journeys as a motif in Literature
(Anthony Riches, Lucinda Hawksley & Gail Simmons)

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11.30 - 12.30

Festival Book Club @ Blonde Hedgehog

Alchemy with S. J. Parris

11.30 - 12.30

Marko Gasic

Are the narratives of history based on evidence?

13.30 - 14.30

Priscilla Morris (Debut Author)

In conversation on Black Butterflies

15.00 - 16.00

Raised from the ruins.

15.30 - 16.30

Festival Book Club @ The Georgian House

Between the Chalk and the Sea with Gail Simmons

16.30 - 17.30

Lucinda Hawksley

Dickens & Travel: the start of modern travel writing

Saturday 23rd March 2024

10.00 - 11.00

Gail Simmons

Between the chalk and the sea: a medieval journey

11.00 - 12.00

Festival Book Club @ Blonde Hedgehog

Black Butterflies with Priscilla Morris

11.30 - 12.30

Melissa Fu (Debut Author)

In conversation on Peach Blossom Spring

13.30 - 14.30

Vaseem Khan

Killing Gandhi, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and the Billion Dollar Snake God

15.00 - 16.00

Festival Book Club @ Jacks's

Peach Blossom Spring with Melissa Fu

15.00 - 16.00

S J Parris

Giordano Bruno: the heretic philosopher

16.30 - 17.30

Panel Discussion in memory of historian Arno Mayer

The conflict between history and memory
(Anthony Riches, Marko Gasic and Jason Monaghan)

Sunday 22nd March 2024

10.00 - 11.00

David Leffman

William Mesney: the mercenary Mandarin

11.30 - 12.30

Closing Panel Discussion

Historians: can they be amateurs?
(Anthony Riches, Vaseem Khan & David Leffman)

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