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Edinburgh Book Festival 2012 highlights. INSIDE THE MINDS OF CONAN DOYLE AND MARLOWE Sometimes, taking a risk on the less well known authors pays off. In what promises to be one of the Edinburgh Book Festival 2012 highlights, Ros Barber (The Marlowe Papers) and John O’ Connell (The Baskerville Legacy) talk about recreating the inner […]
http://www.poetry-festival.com/live-readings.html Ledbury Poetry Festival Event 67 Marlowe expert and poet, Ros Barber, introduces The Marlowe Papers – hotly tipped to be the read of the summer. ‘Immensely clever, capacious, ingenious and imaginative.’ (Hilary Mantel) ‘Not only a homage to Marlowe but a celebration of poetry – and of its power to allow the dead to […]
Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2013, joint winner of the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award 2013. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize For Fiction 2013. Observer Books of the Year 2012. Joint winner of the Hoffman Prize 2011. ‘The most complete Marlowe I’ve ever encountered.’ – Will Self ————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ‘This terrifically accomplished and enjoyable novel… restores one’s […]
Edited highlights from the British Library launch of The Marlowe Papers. The shoes, which garnered many comments, are Irregular Choice ‘Can’t Touch This’. Yet another reason (if any more were needed) to adore Brighton.
On 30 May 1593, celebrated young playwright Christopher Marlowe was killed in a tavern brawl in London… or did he re-invent himself as one William Shakespeare? Award-winning poet Ros Barber discusses her enthralling and hugely acclaimed new verse novel The Marlowe Papers with Shakespearean scholar Bill Leahy and writer Will Self. When: Tue 29 May […]
Sceptre is 25 Andrew Miller, Ros Barber, Jess Richards, Clare Morrall. Chaired by Dr Katy Shaw To celebrate Sceptre’s 25th anniversary, a selection of its established and emerging authors read from their latest and forthcoming books. Andrew Miller has just won the coveted Costa Book of the Year for his sixth novel, Pure, a gripping […]
Saturday 1st October Forest Row Festival Venue: Garden Room, Community Centre Time: 6-7pm Cost: £3/£2.50 At this event, Ros will be giving a sneak preview of ‘The Marlowe Papers’, a fictional autobiography of the 16th century playwright Christopher Marlowe, due to be published by Sceptre in 2012. As the Forest Row Festival states, “This promises […]
Six-year-old Tyke is the spit of her half-brother, Mark, but there’s one crucial difference: Tyke is the result of rape. When her father sails into their Devon fishing village in 1695, Mark, to protect their Ma, decides to kill him. But the plan goes wrong and Mark goes missing. Tyke’s mother dresses her daughter as […]
My friend Peter Farey died early last year. This obituary was first published in the members’ newsletter of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust. I am reposting it here as an accessible tribute to a man whose loss I will always deeply feel. Peter Farey, the leading Marlovian researcher, has died aged 81. A cautious and […]
One of the finest results of the 400th anniversary of the death of a certain man from Stratford has been the increased availability of digitised original texts connected to Shakespeare. The Folger’s Shakespeare Documented project is a treasure trove, though in many cases one should take the write-ups with a pinch of salt. It is […]