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2010
- August 26
- Edinburgh International Book Festival
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Location: 10.15 am in Highland Park Spiegeltent, Edinburgh
- September 20
- Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival
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Rachel Billington talks to Bridget Galton
Location: 12.00- 1.0 pm at Ivy House, London NW11 7SX
- October
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The Lukan Fund
A ‘Literary’ family, twenty novels and a prison newspaper: Rachel Billington talks about her life and work. In aid of St.Luke’s Church, Wincanton .
Location: Wincanton, Somerset
- October 10
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Wells Festival of Literature
Book Group Event. Presentation of The Missing Boy and presentation and discussion of Lies and Loyalties. Chair Hilary Cain.
Location: 2.30 pm at Bishop’s Palace, Wells, Somerset
- November
- Bridport Literary Festival
Location: TBA
Previous Events
2010
- April 17
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West Country Writers Association Annual Lunch
Location: The Mercure White Hart Hotel, Salisbury.
RB attends as President of the West Country Writers Association
- March 25
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The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
‘Writing Fiction’
Rachel Billington talks about her latest published novel Lies and Loyalties, and her new novel The Missing Boy, to be published in May this year. She will also discuss her writing for prisoners in the prison newspaper ‘Inside Time’ and their wiriting in ‘Inside Poetry’ publlished in 2009.
Location. Christ Church College, Oxford at 4 pm on March 2
- May 27
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The Missing Boy
Orion Books’ publication of The Missing Boy.
‘Rachel Billington has written a tense and emotional novel about the day-to-day existence of a contemporary family living through their worst nightmare. Anguish and hope move across the pages until the final breath-taking denouement. The disappearance of a teenage boy tears a family apart in this poignant, highly topical and searching story’.
- June 10
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The Missing Boy
Rachel Billington in conversation with Peter Stanford to celebrate Orion Books’ publication of The Missing Boy.
Location: from 7-9 pm
Waterstone’s 39-41 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JQ - July 13
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Ways with Words Literary Festival
Location: Dartington Hall, Devon
2009
- December 2
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The Longford Lecture
Rachel Billington chairs the eighth in the series of lectures in memory of her father, Lord Longford.www.longfordtrust.org
‘War is easy - peace is the difficult prize.’
Sir Hugh Orde, President of the Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland talks about ‘An Alternative Approach to Resolving Unsolved Murders’.
Assembly Hall of Church House, Westminster, London at 6.30 pm
- November 3rd
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The Poyntington Lecture
‘Growing up as a Writer in the Longford Family’.
RB at The Gryphon Conference Centre, Bristol Road, Sherborne, Dorset at 7 pm.
- July 3rd
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BBC Radio 3 The Verb
RB interview with readings from Inside Poetry.
- July 2nd
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Making Conversation
RB has written the Preface to the reissue of Making Conversation, by Christine Longford. She will be at Persephone Books Ltd., 59 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1N 3NB at lunch to talk about her aunt’s novel, first published in 1931, and her own latest work, Lies and Loyalties.
- July 2nd
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Inside Poetry
Launch of Inside Poetry at Daunts Bookshop, Holland Park, London. The book is a collection of poetry written by men and women in prison. It is edited by RB and has a foreword by Andrew Motion and endorsements from Boris Johnson, Michael Palin and author/prisoner Razor Smith.