University of East Anglia

"Travel writer, cultural historian and literary critic Robert Macfarlane (May 14) won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for his first book Mountains of the Mind. He was a Man Booker judge in 2004 and is a Fellow in English ... (more)at Emmanuel College, Cambridge." Individual tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.

"Louis de Bernières (May 21) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his first two novels, The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord. His fourth book, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, became a best-seller and was made into a film in 2001 starring Nicholas ... (more)Cage and Penelope Cruz. It has been translated into 35 languages. He is also a musician and plays flute, mandolin, clarinet and guitar. His new book, A Partisan’s Daughter, is published in March." Individual tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.

"A celebration of the 30th anniversary of Virago Modern Classics takes place on June 2. Launched in 1978, the imprint reprinted works by female writers including George Eliot, Daphne du Maurier and Muriel Spark, with introductions from contemporary authors. Novelist Ali Smith will be in conversation ... (more)with Virago founder Carmen Callil, publisher Lennie Goodings, and editor Donna Coonan." Individual tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.

"Lisa Appignanesi (February 18) is a writer and broadcaster. Her books include The Memory Man, Sanctuary and a family memoir, Losing the Dead. She has written and presented radio programmes for the BBC and her new book, Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors ... (more)from 1800 to the Present, is published in February." Individual tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.

"Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Junot Diaz (February 25) made his debut with Drown, a collection of autobiographical stories. His novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was published to critical acclaim in the US last year and is published in February." Individual ... (more)tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.

"Michèle Roberts (March 5) has published numerous novels, including the Booker-shortlisted Daughters of the House, The Looking Glass, and Reader, I Married Him. She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at UEA. Her latest book Paper Houses was published in 2007." Individual ... (more)tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.

"Alan Sillitoe (March 12) was one of the group of maverick 1950s writers known as ‘angry young men’. His novels Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner were both made into classic films. He went on to publish numerous novels, several volumes ... (more)of poetry and an autobiography, Life Without Armour." Individual tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.

"A former feature writer for The Guardian, Linda Grant (April 16) won the David Higham Prize for Fiction for her first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, and the Orange Prize for Fiction for her second, When I Lived in Modern Times. Remind Me Who I Am Again, an account of her mother’s ... (more)dementia, won the MIND Book of the Year Award. Her new novel, The Clothes on Their Backs, is published in this year." Individual tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.

"Isabel Allende (April 24) was born in Peru where her father was Chilean ambassador. Returning to Chile she worked as a journalist before moving to Venezuela in 1974 after her cousin President Salvadore Allende was deposed in a CIA-backed coup. Her first novel was the internationally acclaimed The ... (more)House of the Spirits. She went on to publish 16 books including Paula, Aphrodite, City of the Beasts and Inés of My Soul. Her new book, The Sum of our Days, is a memoir based on her own journals and daily correspondence with her mother in Chile." Individual tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.

"Posy Simmonds (April 30) has contributed cartoon strips to The Guardian since 1977 and has won international awards for her work. She has also written many books for adults and children, including Gemma Bovery, Lulu and the Flying Babies, and Fred. Her graphic novel Tamara Drewe, ... (more)inspired by Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, was published last year." Individual tickets priced £5 (no concs) and season tickets priced £45 (£40 concs) are available from the box office on 01603 508050.