Cardiff BookTalk is delighted to invite you to our event on 15 June 2022, where we will be considering the extraordinary Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. Our guests this time will be Dr Deirdre Osborne from Goldsmiths College and Dr Suzanne Scafe of London … Continue reading Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Cardiff BookTalk is delighted to invite you to our event on 29 June 2022, where we will be looking at Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro with our guests Dr Dominic Dean from the University of Sussex and Dr Richard Rankin Russell from Baylor … Continue reading Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and the Sun
Our BookTalk discussion of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange is now available online. It joins our burgeoning archive of material, which includes talks on Graham Greene, Shirley Jackson, Jane Austen and many others. Huge thanks go out to this month’s guests. Bill Bell guides us … Continue reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess – watch online
We’re delighted to share the news that our friends at Penarth Pier’s Snowcat Cinema will be showing Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange on 17 February as a tie-in with our discussion of Anthony Burgess’ novel this week. Since its release in 1971, the film has … Continue reading A Clockwork Orange at Snowcat Cinema
‘…He is one of those exceptional people that talkshow hosts give thanks for–an author who talks as entertainingly as he writes.‘ (Dick Cavett introduces Anthony Burgess, 1974) The controversy that accompanied the release of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange thrust Anthony Burgess into the media spotlight. … Continue reading From Horrorshow to Chatshow – Burgess on TV
Would it surprise you that most of what you think you know about A Clockwork Orange is probably wrong? Stanley Kubrick’s self-imposed ban on UK screenings of his film adaption coupled with Burgess’ own ambivalence toward the different endings of the novel ensured that a … Continue reading A Clockwork Orange at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
One of the challenges of reading A Clockwork Orange is forgetting the Kubrick film and imagining your own version. Malcolm McDowell’s performance as Alex can be particularly hard to shift—charismatic, savage, cruel and often very funny—his voice echoes uncannily through the text. But is the … Continue reading ‘What’s it going to be then, eh?’ – Anthony Burgess reads A Clockwork Orange
Last week’s BookTalk with Dr Jac Saorsa is now available to watch on our YouTube channel, where you can find a burgeoning archive of previous BookTalk events. Thanks to our guest, poet Gwyneth Lewis, who joined Jac in conversation and offered her perspective on Like … Continue reading Like Any Other Woman by Jac Saorsa – watch online
This week’s Cardiff BookTalk is on Dr Jac Saorsa’s Like Any Other Woman an account of a project she undertook with gynaecological cancer patients. A collaboration with the women she met, Saorsa’s approach aimed to document and reveal the lived experience of diagnosis and treatment, … Continue reading Works from the Drawing Women’s Cancer project by Dr Jac Saorsa
Next week’s Cardiff BookTalk features Dr Jac Saorsa who will be discussing her book Like Any Other Woman: The Lived Experience of Gynaecological Cancer, co-authored with Rebecca Phillips. In advance of this event you can read Like Other Woman as a free e-book from Cardiff … Continue reading Like Any Other Woman – free ebook from Cardiff University Press
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