04/03/2012, 5pm
Jonathan Steele discusses 'Ghosts of Afghanistan' at the Words by the Water Festival, Keswick
Jonathan Steele was engaged in numerous reporting assignments in Kabul during both the Soviet-led and US and British interventions, which makes him well placed to evaluate and examine their differing approaches in Afghanistan. Comparing the Soviet and US strategies, he will argue that President Obama is wrong to rely so heavily on the search for military victory rather than follow Mikhail Gorbachev's strategy of asking his allies in Kabul to negotiate with the insurgents in order to create a government of national unity and to enable foreign forces to completely withdraw.
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria
www.wayswithwords.co.uk
05/03/2012, 12noon
Catherine Hall and Jo Bake discuss 'The Proof of Love' and 'The Picture Book' at the Words by the Wa
In Catherine Hall's second novel 'The Proof of Love' a sense of place is superbly rendered. We are aware of the towering Cumbrian Hills, but Hall insists this is a working world rather than a sublime landscape. On a writers retreat in Malta, a retired naval officer told Jo Baker that her great grandfather would have passed through that spot before heading to his death in the First World War. Fate repetition and the possibility of breaking free became the founding ideas of her fourth novel 'The Picture Book'.
Theatre By the Lake, Keswick
www.wayswithwords.co.uk
06/03/2012, 2:15pm
David Bainbridge discusses 'Middle Age' at the Ways with Words Festival, Keswick
As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, David Bainbridge finds himself pondering some bigger questions: Have I at 40 come to the end of my productive life? What am I now for? He explains the science behind the physical, mental and emotional changes men and women experience between the ages of 40 and 60 and reveals the evolutionary and peronal benefits of middle age, which are unique to human beings. He will change the way you think about midlife, and help turn the 'crisis' into a cause for celebration.
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria
www.wayswithwords.co.uk
10/03/2012, 8pm
David Bainbridge discusses 'Middle Age' with Marcus Berkmann at the Bath Literature Festival
Pay attention gentlemen, columnist Marcus Berkmann, author of Fatherhood: The Truth invites you into his shed in A Shed of One's Own, a comically acerbic investigation into male middle-age. He is joined by the hugely popular science writer David Bainbridge, whose book Middle Age takes a light-hearted and positive look at this distinct period of human age. Embrace those middle years and emerge as a new man or woman! You have nothing to lose but your sheds.
Guildhall, Bath
www.bathlitfest.org.uk
11/03/2012, 2pm
David Bainbridge discusses 'Middle Age' at the Aye Write! Festival, Glasgow
David Bainbridge has just turned 40. As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds himself pondering some bigger questions. In Middle Age: A Natural History, Bainbridge explains the science behind the physical, mental and emotional changes we experience between the ages of 40 and 60, and reveals the benefits of middle age.?
Mitchell Library, Glasow, G3 7DN
www.ayewrite.com
