Imagining Glevum...
What might it have been like for the Dobunni when the Romans made the Fosse Way the frontier of the empire? Linda Proud, well-known author of historical fiction, explores how she brought this largely lost world of the Iron Age to life in her novels, Chariot of the Soul and its sequel, The Albios Way.
There will be two short readings, one set on the Severn about riding the bore on coracles, the other about the sacred lake which was once in north Gloucester...
Date and Time:
Thursday 30 July
2-3pm
1 hour (30 mins talk, 15 mins Q&A and 15 mins book signing)
Places:
70
Prices:
£5 per person
Please note:
Suitable for ages 11+.
All children under 16 years old must be accompanied by an adult.
Linda Proud is best known for her novels set in Renaissance Italy. She was a freelance picture researcher before teaching creative writing to US students studying in Oxford, UK, which she did for twenty years, working mainly for Sarah Lawrence College. Her first novel, "A Tabernacle for the Sun", won a bursary from Southern Arts and a month's residence at the writers' retreat of Hawthornden Castle. It was published by Allison and Busby in 1997. Since then she has published three more books set in the Florentine Renaissance but now is immersed in Iron Age Britain, and particularly the Dobunni tribe.
She lives on the edge of Oxford with her husband, David.
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