Join us for an author talk with historical writer Ian Collins and nature writer Richard Mabey at Southwold Arts Centre as part of Southwold Literary Festival! Ian and Richard will be talking to us about their latest books and writings on nature.
Tickets are £6 each. Available to book from Southwold Library, from Southwold Arts Centre, or online via TicketSource.
Ian Collins is a writer and curator. He has written numerous biographies & monographs, including the Runciman Award-winning John Craxton: A Life of Gifts and James Dodds: The Blue Boat which won the Creative Suffolk Author Award. He had a long career as an arts writer for the Eastern Daily Press and has worked with the Aldeburgh Festival, and Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. He lives in Suffolk and Greece.
His latest book Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe draws on unparalleled access to letters, notebooks, published works, drafts, and conversations from decades of friendship, to tell the full story of Ronald Blythe for the first time. The result is a sensitive, revelatory portrait which celebrates a fascinating, complex man and casts new light on one of our greatest writers.
Richard Mabey is one of our greatest nature writers. He is the author of some 30 books including the bestselling plant bible Flora Britannica and Nature Cure which was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Ondaatje and Ackerley Awards. A regular commentator on radio & in the press, he was elected a Fellow in the Royal Society of Literature in 2012. He lives in Norfolk.
His latest book The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness & the Space In Between has been described as “Part memoir, part naturescape and part gardening book...there is also something much rarer in this book: wisdom. What a treat” by The Times, and New Statesman declares Richard Mabey as "the doyen of UK nature writing".
This event takes place at Southwold Arts Centre, St Edmund's Hall, IP18 6JP.
Southwold Literary Festival has been organised in collaboration with Southwold Arts Centre, Friends of Southwold Library, and Suffolk Libraries.
