Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski’s new novel Apology for the Woman Writing (Virago) is based on the true story of Marie de Gournay, the passionate and complex young woman who was only 18 when she was so overwhelmed by the work of Michel de Montaigne that she had to be revived with hellebore. When he died four years later, ... (more)she became the editor and champion of his work and a professional writer herself. Diski is a novelist and essayist, and the author of several works of non-fiction, including the award-winning Stranger on a Train. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details) Book online at http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/events Discounts for LRB subscribers - contact the shop on books@lrbshop.co.uk for details

The award-winning author of Stranger on a Train and Skating to Antarctica, Jenni Diski will be at Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street talking about her new novel Apology for the Woman Writing.

This is a ticketed event ONLY. Tickets are FREE and may be obtained from the Ground Floor Cash Desk at ... (more)Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge or by contacting Richard Reynolds on 01223 568532.

Janice Galloway is one of Britain’s most celebrated and admired novelists, praised for her ability to depict imagined lives in all their complexities. She has turned this skill on herself for her first memoir, This is Not About Me (Granta), in which she writes about her first twelve years growing up ... (more)on the west coast of Scotland in the shadow of her charismatic older sister, Cora. She will discuss the book with the writer and LRB contributor, Jenny Diski.

Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details)

Book online at http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/events