4th Estate Author Events

Zeljka September 3, 2012

3rd September 2012

We post all upcoming 4th Estate author events here so make sure you check back regularly. We also list associated events which feature Harper Press authors. See all events here.

Paula Byrne at the London Review Bookshop

Zeljka January 7, 2013

19:00 31st January 2013
14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL

Paula Byrne’s innovative new biography, The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things, draws on material objects from the life of Jane Austen – a topaz cross, a laptop writing box, a bathing machine – to describe the life and mind of this much-loved author.To mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, Paula Byrne will talk about Austen with regular LRB contributor, UCL professor and author, John Mullan.

Buy tickets: http://bit.ly/UvebZ1

 

Sarah Fraser at Pitlochry Winter Words Festival

Zeljka January 7, 2013

13:00 1st February 2013
Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port Na Craig, Pitlochry PH16 5DR

Sarah Fraser will discuss The Last Highlander, a gripping biography of her ancestor Simon Fraser, who was the last of the great Scottish chiefs, infamous rebel, most famous supporter of Bonnie Prince Charlie, notorious double agent, and the last man to be beheaded in Britain. The lunchtime talk will include a two course lunch and a glass of wine.

Buy tickets: http://bit.ly/WnEQGS

Ben Goldacre at LSE

Zeljka January 7, 2013

18:30 4th February 2013
Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, LSE Campus, London WC2A 2HT

Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma, scrutinises the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry. He explains how the science has been distorted, how our systems have been broken, and how easy it would be to fix them in this public lecture organised by UCL’s Department of Methodology.

Request tickets here: http://bit.ly/TWnL8S

Sarah Gristwood at the National Portrait Gallery

Zeljka January 7, 2013

13:15 14th February 2013
Ondaatje Wing Theatre, National Portrait Gallery, London

Sarah Gristwood explores the lives of seven royal women who helped end the Wars of the Roses with their political and dynastic skills, telling their fascinating stories for the first time in her book, Blood Sisters, and in this free lunchtime talk.

Find out more: http://bit.ly/VwIShx

John Major at the V & A

Zeljka January 7, 2013

18:30 26th February 2013
The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

Join former Prime Minister John Major as he reveals his own unconventional family past and explores the richly colourful story of the British music hall, while discussing his recent book, My Old Man.

Buy tickets: http://bit.ly/13aPFTp

 

Ben Goldacre at Bristol Festival of Ideas

Zeljka January 7, 2013

18:30 27th February 2013
At-Bristol, Anchor Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5DB

Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now, in Bad Pharma, he puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope revealing a fascinating, terrifying mess. Goldacre will talk about the book before signing copies.

Buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/UviPGl

Susan Fletcher at Plackitt & Booth Booksellers

Zeljka January 7, 2013

7th March 2013
Plackitt & Booth Booksellers, 87c Clifton Street, Lythan, Lancashire

The Silver Dark Sea is a powerful new novel about love, loss and the lore of the sea from the award-winning author of Eve Green and Oystercatchers. Susan Fletcher will talk about the book and sign copies.

For more information call Plackitt & Booth on 01253 796958.

 

Jane Dunn at the Bath Literature Festival

Zeljka January 7, 2013

13:00 7th March 2013
The Guildhall, High Street, Bath

Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time. Overshadowed by her fame, her sisters, a writer and an artist, lived quiet lives even more unconventional  than Daphne’s own. Historian, Jane Dunn, now considers the three sisters side by side in this talk and in Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters, a group biography that reveals lives full of social non-conformity, creative energy and compulsive make-believe.

Buy tickets here:  http://bit.ly/Xe2W9q

Paula Byrne at the Bath Literary Festival

Zeljka January 7, 2013

12:00 8th March 2013
Theatre Royal Bath, Sawclose, Bath

Who was the real Jane Austen? A spinster who sat in a vicarage confining her novels to the small canvas of village life? Or a woman who knew the turbulent world around her and who took the bold decision to remain unmarried and fashion herself as a professional writer? In The Real Jane Austen, bestselling author Paula Byrne explores the forces that shaped the interior life of one of Britain’s most beloved novelists.

Buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/VJVUrT