Elizabeth Abbott
Elizabeth Abbott is Research Associate at Trinity College, University of Toronto and, from 1991 to 2004, was Dean of Women. She is the author of several books, including A History of Mistresses and A History of Celibacy.
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`A bleak and gritty shock of a novel, gripping to the end` - Anthony Cummins 🤯
Need we say more….
A Splintering just featured in the Daily Mail’s ‘best Literary Fiction to read this autumn’ 🥳🍁🍂
#asplintering #literaryfiction #bookstagram #books #dailymail
Join Kate Kennedy and Eleanor Chan at Goldsmiths University 👏
📆15th October
⏰5-6pm
📍Richard Hoggart Building
🎟️Free
Music, life-writing and how to write about what you can’t hear🎼
We had two Duckworth authors at the inaugural Festival of Encounters 🦆🦆
Eleanor Chan discussing Duet with the brilliant @elizabethalker
🎼Duet: A groundbreaking history of the way music has threaded through human history, by a brilliant young historian and BBC Next Generation Thinker
And the wonderful Andy Field was discussing his book Encounterism in a barbers shop! Very fitting!
💇♂️Encounterism: A joyous exploration into the everyday pleasures and benefits of encountering the world in-person
What a fantastic experience! Thank you so much @vangoghlondon
Photo credit @neenapercy 📸
#festivalofencounters #vangoghhouse #duet #encounterism
We are very excited to see Eleanor Chan @thoroughlyearlymodernellie and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason @thekannehmasons in conversation at Hatchards @hatchardspiccadilly next week.
Why not join them – and our Chair, musicologist and broadcaster Emily MacGregor @emjmacgregor – for a fascinating evening discussing how music has threaded through human history and artistic self-expression?
In Duet: An Artful History of Music Chan explores the inter-relationships of sound and vision, music and art. Taking us on an exhilarating journey that encompasses a 35,000-year-old flute found in a German cave, Kandinsky`s kaleidoscopic paintings, illuminated manuscripts and haute couture, we discover a long historical interplay of music and art. But what might it mean to to trulyseemusic?
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason’s memoir, House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons, won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Storytelling Award and her most recent book is To Be Young, Gifted and Black. Through conversations with her extraordinarily gifted family, all classical musicians, Kanneh-Mason explores what it’s like to come of age in these turbulent times, when Black artistic self-expression is so often met with disparagement and abuse online – and offers a hopeful, powerful way through.
Emily MacGregor is a writer, broadcaster, and music historian. Her book While the Music Lasts offers an erudite, lyrical, gently humorous and healing journey in making and participating in music.
Published today in paperback! For readers who love fascinating women’s biographies shot through with literary intrigue of the 20th century.
The Quality of Love is an intimate portrait of the stunning Paget Twins whose lives intersected with friends and lovers: George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Arthur Koestler and many others.
A beautiful and deeply moving book about sisters who captured the attention of the world, order it from your nearest independent bookshop.
A Splintering UK Book Tour 🧡📕
Dur e Aziz Amna will be returning to the UK! 🇬🇧
We are excited to announce the stops on her UK book tour. We have such amazing events lined up, we hope to see you there 🥳
We will be sharing ticket links in our stories, you can also head to each venue’s website to find more about ticket information🎟️
#asplintering #literaryfiction #UK #books #bookstagram
You can catch @felicityspector and @oliahercules at the @burylitfestival on October 12th 🥳🙌🥳
Duckworth author Eleanor Chan @thoroughlyearlymodernellie will be in conversation with Kate Kennedy @drkatekennedy in Oxford this month to celebrate the launch of the startingly original Duet: An Artful History of Music
Their discussion will grapple with how throughout human history we have always endeavoured to *see* music and promises an unforgettable journey through sound and vision.
Eleanor Chan is a classically trained musician, art historian and BBC Next Generation Thinker.
Biographer and broadcaster Kate Kennedy is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing. She has published widely on twentieth century music and literatureand is a regular presenter on history and culture for the BBC.
In association with Music at Oxford: @music_at_oxford
Tickets on sale now!
We’re honoured to announce #InGreen by @louis.d.hall has been longlisted for the @saltirebookawards.
Seeking a salve for his existential apprehensions and inspired by Don Quixote, Louis’ journey on horseback reconnects him with wild places, taking readers along old paths and ancient villages across Europe. From rural Scotland to the Galician Coast, Louis discovers more than he bargained for.
‘A classic adventure narrative in the vein of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Robert Louis Stevenson... life-changing’ @calflyn author of #IslandsOfAbandonment
And some more incredible stories... 🚂👏
#PublicationDay #TheUntoldRailwayStories #RailwayHistory #TrainTravel #NewBook
Here are just some of the amazing stories you can find in our latest publication, The Untold Railway Stories…. 🚞📚
#PublicationDay #TheUntoldRailwayStories #RailwayHistory #TrainTravel #NewBook
✨🚂 Happy Publication Day! 🚂✨
We’re thrilled to celebrate the release of The Untold Railway Stories, a compendium of fascinating and evocative new writing on railway travel and history.
Telling of little known journeys and uncovered histories on railway routes around the world - from the UK, Europe and Africa to North America, the Middle East and Asia.
From Myanmar`s highlands to the British Pennines, from slow travel between coffee plantations in Borneo to a cross-continent odyssey on African railways, from the pioneers of the American West to European trains in war, this is a new prism through which to explore human lives, and global landscapes, politics and history.
The Untold Railway Stories is a testament to both the joy and impact of train travel - to the ambition and ingenuity, and also to destruction and sacrifice within its history - and is published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of first passenger railway line.
📖 Out now — climb aboard!
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