Tuesday 12th April Lunch, 12:30 - teacher, lecturer and Jungian psychoanalyst
Salley Vickers is the author of many highly acclaimed novels, including Miss Garnet’s Angel, The Cleaner of Chartres, Cousins, The Librarian, which was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, Grandmothers, and two short story collections, The Boy Who Could See Death. She was born in Liverpool and grew up in the Potteries, in Stoke-on-Trent. She has worked as a teacher of children with special needs, a university teacher of literature and as Jungian psychoanalyst, she now lectures and writes full time.
The art of a good author is to draw the reader in, get them engaged with the characters, share their journey, want to know their fate. Vickers never lets her reader, or her heroine, subside into complacency; there is always, she reminds us, more work to be done.
Richmond Literary Lunches start with a glass of wine on arrival followed by a delicious 2-course lunch – all for £38.50. Early Bird discounts for booking before April 4th £35. Book for 6, obtain one for free.
For reservations please call Erin on 0208 940 1894, email recp@rmsgc.co.uk or online at www.eventbrite.com
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In collaboration with The Open Book, Richmond’s oldest bookshop, we are reviewing whom to invite for 2022.
Librarian, Curator Tim Battle at timbattle@gmail.com would welcome any feedback, suggestions you might have.
Suggestions for future events
Susan Hill-The Betrayal of Trust Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
Simon Schama -A History of Britain A gripping history of the British Isles.
Sally Rooney– Normal People ‘Emotionally frank, generous and expansive’. Richard Saker The Observer.
Gail Honeyman– Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Costa Book Award for First Novel
Sarah Moss- Ghost Walls Novel with roots in England’s deep past
Anna Burns – Milkman Inventive, funny novel about The Troubles in Northern Ireland
Chimamanda Ngoze Adiche Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories, and nonfiction
Ben Macintyre- The Spy and the Traitor Described by John Le Carre as The Best True Spy Story I have Ever Read
Giles Milton- D-Day The definitive boots-on-the-ground account of the greatest invasion in history.
Kate Raworth-Doughnut Economics A Financial Times “Best Book of 2017
Roger Moorhouse-The Third Reich in 100 Objects ‘Fascinating objects that expose the poisonous reality of Hitler’s Germany’ Dan Snow
Anita Anand-Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary ‘The story is fast-paced and thrilling … A noble book *****’ The Daily Telegraph.