February Newsletter
Booking is now open for Frances Hardinge’s 2018
lecture, Peopling
the Dark
The lecture will take place at 5.00pm on
the 19th of April in the Mary Allan Building, Homerton College,
Cambridge, CB2 8PH. After the lecture there will be a short wine
reception.
Frances’ highly
acclaimed children’s novels include Fly By Night, Twilight Robbery,
the Carnegie-shortlisted Cuckoo
Song and Costa Book of the Year, The Lie Tree. For
her Philippa Pearce lecture, she will explore unseen and half-seen
figures of menace and malice in children’s literature,
including Philippa Pearce’s The
Shadow-Cage.
This year sees the
lecture celebrating its tenth anniversary. Both lecture
and reception are free to the public, but are supported by Homerton
College and also by personal donations. Please consider donating – you
can do so easily by clicking the red donation box at the Philippa Pearce
Lecture website: www.pearcelecture.com
To book your ticket please use the form
on the booking page of the website. You will receive a
confirmation email that includes your e-ticket. Print it out or download
a mobile version, and take this with you to the lecture.
PHILIPPA
PEARCE died in 2006, but respect and affection for her writing is as
strong as ever. In her memory, a series of lectures is now underway, each
intended to celebrate excellence in literature for children and to
emphasize its continuing vital importance.
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