Julia Blackburn and Blake Morrison
A literary reading
Location: Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Time/Date: 21st January 2010, 19:00
The range of Blake Morrison’s work is astonishing; he is a novelist, playwright, memoirist, journalist and critic. And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993) a chronicle of his relationship with his father was produced as a feature film in 2004. His latest novel is South of the River (2007) and a new book The Last Weekend is expected this summer.
"Midwinter half-light. The hardest frost of the year, and everything has ground to a halt, the ponds frozen, the trees under arrest, the canal locks locked."(from And When Did You Last See Your Father?)
Julia Blackburn is the author of four books of non-fiction, Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert and Old Man Goya, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her memoir of her troubled relationship with her parents, The Three of Us, was published to great acclaim in 2008.
You can read a review of Blake Morrison’s And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Julia Blackburn’s The Three of Us in our reviews section.
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Published: 17th December 2009