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Christie Watson @ UEA Literary Festival

Christie Watson has spent most of her working life as a nurse, but it was only when she saw the nursing care given to her...

Madeline Miller @ UEA Literary Festival

If any writer was ideally suited to taking the characters of Greek mythology and write novels about them, it was Madeline Miller. When she was...

Jesmyn Ward @ UEA Spring Literary Festival 2018

To say that Jesmyn Ward’s literary works have been well received would be to put it mildly. Still aged only 41, her novels have won...

UEA Lecture – Must the poor be always with us?

Baroness (Patricia) Hollis, a former government minister, an academic and a prize-winning author, was taking no prisoners when she discussed the question of, “Must the...

UEA Philosophy discussion asks “Are Robots Taking Over?”

There is nothing new about concerns that robots will take over the world. As Dr Gareth Jones, a University of East Anglia honorary lecturer noted...

In the Face of a Deteriorating Climate – Philosophy Talk Reviewed

Is humankind and many other forms of life on Earth doomed in the face of climate change? As temperatures continue to increase and a growth-obsessed...

Review of Aladdin @ Marina Theatre, Lowestoft

Aladdin is one of the classic panto tales and it boasts plenty of exotic twists, with the story originating in the Middle East but being...

Kenneth Clarke @ UEA Literary Festival

Kenneth Clarke admits to being obsessed with politics ever since he was a schoolboy. He kept a scrapbook of political stories he had cut out...

Kamila Shamsie @ UEA Literary Festival

Brought up in Pakistan with English as her first language, and educated in the United States, it is perhaps no surprise that the novelist Kamila...

Rebecca Stott @ UEA Literary Festival

When she was a child, Rebecca Stott once surreptitiously opened the encyclopaedia at her family home and looked for the entry on Charles Darwin. It...