Event overview
The novelist Rachel Seiffert and life writer Duncan Barrett discuss the challenges involved in researching - and creating narratives from - historical events
Rachel Seiffert was named as one of Granta’s Best Young British novelists in 2003. Her first book, The Dark Room, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and made into a film called Lore. Her other titles include Field Study (2004), Afterwards (2007) and The Walk Home (2014). Her new book, A Boy In Winter, just out in paperback, was a Times Book of the Year and a New York Times notable title of 2017. Her characters have included the 12-year-old daughter of an SS officer in 1945, a Polish seasonal worker on a German asparagus farm after the fall of the Wall, and – most recently – a young Ukrainian faced with the choice between resistance and collaboration during the Nazi occupation. She has taught at Goldsmiths, Glasgow University and the Faber Academy, and is currently Writer in residence at Haseltine School in SE26.
Duncan Barrett is a writer and editor, specialising in biography and memoir. He grew up in London and studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge. In 2010 he edited the First World War memoirs of the pacifist saboteur Ronald Skirth, published as The Reluctant Tommy. He is co-author, with Nuala Calvi, of a trio of Sunday Times bestselling titles: The Sugar Girls, which was ranked second in the history bestsellers of 2012, GI Brides, which was a New York Times bestseller in America, and The Girls Who Went to War. His solo titles are Men of Letters: The Post Office Heroes Who Fought the Great War, and the forthcoming Hitler’s British Isles: The Real Story of the Occupied Channel Islands.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 7 Feb 2018 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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