As usual, the climax of Members’ Day will be a talk, book
signing and reception hosted by CILIP in London. This year, we are fortunate to have as our speaker award-winning author Michèle Roberts. She will relate her Memoirs of a Lapsed Librarian.
Michèle Roberts is one of our most exciting contemporary novelists, hailed by critics as like ‘Woolf at her most flirtatious’, ‘Joyce at his most voluptuous’ and ‘Carter at her most inventive’. The author of twelve highly praised novels, she often sits on panels for literary prizes and has, herself, been a Booker Prize judge. She is a regular reviewer and broadcaster, writes a fortnightly food column for the New Statesman, and is Professor-Emeritus of CreativeWriting at the University of East Anglia.
In December 2001 Miss Roberts was appointed Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. A staunch republican, she refused an OBE in 2003.
Following the talk, Miss Roberts has kindly agreed to sign copies of her recent memoir Paper Houses. Based on her diaries and note-books, it explores her determination to swap a ‘conventional’ middle-class Edgware family for countercultural Seventies North London. Her escape-route took her through a library-school course, a job in the British Museum Library and the British Council! Copies of the book, which was a recent Radio 4 Book of theWeek, will be available for purchase on the evening, during the reception.
The evening talk and reception will take place at SOAS, tickets cost £12. Please complete the registration form to secure a place.
Updated: 29 September 2008