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2024 Alderney Literary Festival Programme  

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Friday 22nd March 2024

10.00 - 11.00

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

11.30 - 12.30

Festival Book Club @ Blonde Hedgehog
Alchemy with S. J. Parris

11.30 - 12.30

Are the narratives of history based on evidence?

13.30 - 14.30

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

Dickens & Travel: the start of modern travel writing
Saturday 23rd March 2024

10.00 - 11.00

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

In conversation on Peach Blossom Spring
 

13.30 - 14.30

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

Giordano Bruno: the heretic philosopher

16.30 - 17.30

The conflict between history and memory
(Anthony Riches, Marko Gasic and Jason Monaghan)
Sunday 22nd March 2024

10.00 - 11.00

William Mesney: the mercenary Mandarin

11.30 - 12.30

Historians: can they be amateurs?
(Anthony Riches, Vaseem Khan & David Leffman)
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Dickens and Travel high-res jkt.2022
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Between the chalk jacket
PEACH BLOSSOM SPRING - UK paperback cover
OldTowns jacket
Black Butterflies jacket
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