Take Nothing With You, with Author Patrick Gale
Wednesday 26 September, 7.30pm
Village Books & Alleyn's School Enterprises Ltd present an evening with Patrick Gale.
Join us for an evening of entertaining discussion about writing with one of the UK’s leading authors.
Patrick is the author of bestselling novels including The Whole Day Through, the Richard and Judy bestsellers Notes From An Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man, the Costa nominated A Place Called Winter and his latest, Take Nothing With You. And he was the author of the BBC drama, Man in an Orange Shirt.
Tickets avilable at Village Books, Dulwich
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Adam Rutherford and The Story of How We Became Us
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Tuesday 9 October, 7.30pm
Join Village Books and Alleyn’s School Enterprises Ltd, for an evening with Adam Rutherford, popular science broadcaster, presenter of Radio 4’s Inside Science, and author of the best-selling A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived.
Adam will be talking about his new book The Book of Humans which explores how many of the things once considered to be exclusively human are not.
Illuminated by the latest scientific discoveries, it is a thrilling compendium of what unequivocally fixes us as animals and reveals how we are extraordinary among them.
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Plosive Comedy in Dulwich with Ardal O'Hanlon
Saturday 13 October, 8pm
Plosive’s flagship stand-up night, bringing the best in alternative comedy to south east London.
ARDAL O’HANLON – the British Comedy Award-winning star of ‘Father Ted’ – headlines this month.
Joining Ardal are Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated absurdist and ‘Upstart Crow’ star SPENCER JONES, Guilty Feminist Podcast regular JESSICA FOSTEKEW and award-winning Kiwi comic JARRED CHRISTMAS.
Tickets: £17
Age restriction: 18+
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Vietnam with Sir Max Hastings
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Thursday 15 November, 7.30pm
Village Books and Alleyn's School Enterprises invite you to an evening with Sir Max Hastings.
From the best-selling author of All Hell Let Loose comes a masterful chronicle of one of the most devastating international conflicts of the 20th century and how its people were affected. Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive conflict since the Second World War. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle.
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Jenni Murray - A History of the World in 21 Women
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Tuesday 2 October, 7pm
Join us on Tuesday 2nd October as Jenni Murray celebrates the lives, struggles and achievements of some of history’s most extraordinary women from around the globe.
Jenni Murray is a journalist and broadcaster who has presented BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour since 1987. She is the author of several books, including A History of Britain in 21 Women and Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter.
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Speeches of Note: Shaun Usher in collaboration with Alleyn's Drama
Thursday 11 October, 7.30pm
We are delighted to announce an evening of historic speeches compiled by Shaun Usher and dramatised by pupils from Alleyn's Drama Department.
In Speeches of Note you'll discover sppeched that altered the course of history, like Nelson Mandela's on the day he became South Africa's first black President. You'll find gloriously unexpected speeches as Kermit the Frog takes to the podium, and celebrate lives well-lived, including Tilda Swinton's tribute to 'every alien's favourite cousin', David Bowie.
Shaun Usher is the writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs lettersofnote.com, listsofnote.com and speechesofnote.com. He is the author of Letters of Note, Lists of Note and More Letters of Note.
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An Afternoon with Lauren Child
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Sunday 4 November, 3pm
Join us for an afternoon with the current Children’s Laureate as she looks at the inspiration behind her work, the magic of reading and writing for children, and how ideas can come from anywhere. Lauren will be in conversation with Nicolette Jones.
Lauren Child is a multi-award winning, bestselling writer and artists whose books are known and loved across the world. She is best known as the creator of the successful book series Clarice Bean, Ruby Redfort and Charlie and Lola.
Family ticket £30 (entry for 1 adult, 1 child and a copy of Mary Poppins)
Adult £10
Child £7
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Dan Snow: On This Day in History
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Wednesday 28 November, 7.30pm
Join us for an evening with Dan Snow as he looks back at over 3000 years of the most important stories from the past. From the Ides of March to D-Day, Dan Snow tells the story of an important event that happened on each day of the year. Some are famous – from Julius Caesar fatally ignoring a soothsayer’s warning about 15 March to how World War II actually ended (D-Day) – and others more surprising – from Ada Lovelace’s meeting in 1833 which led to the invention of the computer, or the Great Beer Flood of 1814 that killed eight people. Dan shows how each offers a different and unexpected insight into our past.
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