Cardiff BookTalk
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Cardiff BookTalk is a university book group with a difference. Organized by the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University.
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We also have an archive of our past events on the ENCAP YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/@englishcomm...
There's discussion about authors like Jane Austen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel and many others. We've also spoken to authors including Tessa Hadley, Rachel Dawson, Emma Harding and more
There's discussion about authors like Jane Austen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel and many others. We've also spoken to authors including Tessa Hadley, Rachel Dawson, Emma Harding and more
School of English, Communication and Philosophy - Cardiff University
The School of English, Communication and Philosophy is a multi-discipline School that values critical rigour, creative thinking, and intellectual inquisitiveness.
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November 14, 2024 at 10:56 AM
We also have an archive of our past events on the ENCAP YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/@englishcomm...
There's discussion about authors like Jane Austen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel and many others. We've also spoken to authors including Tessa Hadley, Rachel Dawson, Emma Harding and more
There's discussion about authors like Jane Austen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel and many others. We've also spoken to authors including Tessa Hadley, Rachel Dawson, Emma Harding and more
If you're interested in finding out more about us we have a blog here: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com
Cardiff BookTalk
The book group with a difference
cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:56 AM
If you're interested in finding out more about us we have a blog here: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com
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This is a podcast about the Hershels (also on Spotify etc) - their house (now a museum) in Bath and the huge telescope they built in Slough.
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Slough
William Hershel, professional musician, amateur astronomer, discoverer of Uranus, built a telescope in Slough so huge it remained the biggest in the world for fifty years.
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August 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM
This is a podcast about the Hershels (also on Spotify etc) - their house (now a museum) in Bath and the huge telescope they built in Slough.
on.soundcloud.com/tX3fspjPHLup...
on.soundcloud.com/tX3fspjPHLup...
Fall River is a disquieting mixture of crime fiction with magical realism on the river Tamar in Cornwall and we're thrilled to be discussing it with Meredith Miller at Cardiff Uni's Spark Building on 19 March.
Book your free ticket here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/car...
Book your free ticket here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/car...
March 5, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Fall River is a disquieting mixture of crime fiction with magical realism on the river Tamar in Cornwall and we're thrilled to be discussing it with Meredith Miller at Cardiff Uni's Spark Building on 19 March.
Book your free ticket here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/car...
Book your free ticket here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/car...
‘Not From an Astronomer’ is about the eighteenth century astronomer Caroline Herschel. Working at a time when women were excluded from scientific discourse, she discovered several comets and was the first woman to publish in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
March 5, 2024 at 9:49 AM
‘Not From an Astronomer’ is about the eighteenth century astronomer Caroline Herschel. Working at a time when women were excluded from scientific discourse, she discovered several comets and was the first woman to publish in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Both novels, Rachel Dawson's Neon Roses and Emma Hardings The Berliners are available now from all good bookshops
We will be back for more BookTalking in 2024!
We will be back for more BookTalking in 2024!
December 5, 2023 at 1:39 PM
Both novels, Rachel Dawson's Neon Roses and Emma Hardings The Berliners are available now from all good bookshops
We will be back for more BookTalking in 2024!
We will be back for more BookTalking in 2024!
Rachel will be joined by fellow-novelist Emma Harding (The Berliners) next Monday evening for Writing the City
This event at Cardiff University Special Collections is totally free and open to all and supported by Literature Wales
More info: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/w...
This event at Cardiff University Special Collections is totally free and open to all and supported by Literature Wales
More info: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/w...
November 30, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Rachel will be joined by fellow-novelist Emma Harding (The Berliners) next Monday evening for Writing the City
This event at Cardiff University Special Collections is totally free and open to all and supported by Literature Wales
More info: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/w...
This event at Cardiff University Special Collections is totally free and open to all and supported by Literature Wales
More info: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/w...
Emma Harding will be joined by Rachel Dawson for our event Writing the City at Cardiff University Special Collections on 4 December
More info and tix: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/w...
More info and tix: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/w...
November 29, 2023 at 3:14 PM
Emma Harding will be joined by Rachel Dawson for our event Writing the City at Cardiff University Special Collections on 4 December
More info and tix: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/w...
More info and tix: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/w...
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Emma Harding’s The Berliners is a complex, polyphonic novel about the interweaving histories of the inhabitants of an apartment building in Berlin, from the early 1900s to the present day. With a cast of voices including cabaret artists, occult investigators, reluctant pornographers...
November 7, 2023 at 10:57 AM
Emma Harding’s The Berliners is a complex, polyphonic novel about the interweaving histories of the inhabitants of an apartment building in Berlin, from the early 1900s to the present day. With a cast of voices including cabaret artists, occult investigators, reluctant pornographers...
Reposted by Cardiff BookTalk
Neon Roses by Rachel Dawson is a Queer coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of eighties Britain. Her protagonist, Eluned, experiences a sexual awakening when the fundraising group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners comes from London to her Valleys town to support the strike.
November 7, 2023 at 10:53 AM
Neon Roses by Rachel Dawson is a Queer coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of eighties Britain. Her protagonist, Eluned, experiences a sexual awakening when the fundraising group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners comes from London to her Valleys town to support the strike.