Wednesday

24^th March

Festival Book Group -

Live appearance by Blake Morrison

8.00pm to 9.30pm

Upstairs at The Telegraph, Dennetts Rd.

£1.50

Come and meet polymath writer Blake Morrison, to discuss his acclaimed book South of the River.  As we start the new decade and anticipate a new government it's the perfect time to enjoy a great British novel described as a Bonfire of the Vanities for Blair's Britain, set in the post-election euphoria of 1997 and right in our midst in South East London, complete with foxes.

Blake Morrison was born in Skipton, Yorkshire, and educated at Nottingham University, McMaster University and University College, London. After working for the Times Literary Supplement, he went on to become literary editor of both The Observer and the Independent on Sunday before becoming a full-time writer in 1995.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and former Chair of the Poetry Book Society and Vice-Chair of PEN, Blake has written fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism and libretti, as well as adapting plays for the stage. His best-known works are probably his two memoirs, "And When Did You Last See Your Father?" and "Things My Mother Never Told Me."

Since 2003, Blake has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. He lives in south London, with his wife and three children.

See http://www.blakemorrison.com/