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Jim Crace

About Jim Crace

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of eleven books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award) and, most recently, Harvest. He lives in Birmingham.

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Events & Tours

May 2013

Jim Crace at the Philosophy Festival in Hay:
The Prejudice of Intellectuals

Sunday 26th 10:30 AM

We openly discriminate in favour of intelligence - at school and at work - while we often seek to deny or limit the role of physical beauty. Might this be a mistake? Should we accept the many different qualities of individuals and prize them equally, or would this undermine our society and lead to ruin?

LSE Sociologist and Erotic Capital theorist Catherine Hakim, historian of ideas Hannah Dawson and acclaimed novelist Jim Crace debate the values of the mind and the body.

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of eleven books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award) and, most recently, Harvest. He lives in Birmingham.

Click here for more information on Jim Crace.
Click here for more information on his most recent publication, Harvest.

Jack Straw talks to Peter Florence:
Last Man Standing

Monday 27th 10:00 AM

Jack Straw talks to Peter Florence about his life in government and his autobiography Last Man Standing.

The story of his thirty-three years as an MP at the heart of government, throughout the longest-serving Labour administration in history

Con Coughlin:

Tuesday 28th 4:00 PM

This event will be chaired by Mark Skipworth

A fascinating account of the1890 Afghan campaign, drawing fresh parallels with the current campaign, told through the experiences of one junior officer: Winston Churchill

Con Coughlin is the executive foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph and a world-renowned expert on the Middle East. He is the critically-acclaimed author of several books, including the international bestseller, Saddam: His Secret Life. He appears regularly on television and radio in Britain and America to comment on international security issues.. He appears regularly on television and radio in Britain and America to comment on international security issues.

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