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17 May 2025 10:00 12:00
A walk around West Dulwich covering some of the fascinating and unlikely social radicals who lived there, some known, some unknown, some just eccentric. starts at West Dulwich station, ends at Gipsy Hill station. Part of the Dulwich Festival, 50% of ticket sales go to St Christopher's Hospice. Tickets £8 family/£5.50 concessions.
https://dulwichfestival.co.uk/event/social-radicals-walk-west-dulwich/
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17 May 2025 10:00 12:00
A West Norwood Cemetery walk guided by Dr Jane Jordan covering some of its fascinating Dulwich residents. Part of the Dulwich Festival, 50% of ticket sales go to Friends of West Norwood Cemetery. Tickets £8 family/£5.50 concessions.
https://dulwichfestival.co.uk/event/stories-of-west-norwood-cemeterys-dulwich-residents/
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17 May 2025 13:00 15:00
A West Norwood Cemetery walk guided by Dr Jane Jordan covering some of its fascinating Dulwich residents. Part of the Dulwich Festival, 50% of ticket sales go to Friends of West Norwood Cemetery. Tickets £8 family/£5.50 concessions.
https://dulwichfestival.co.uk/event/stories-of-west-norwood-cemeterys-dulwich-residents-2pm/
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17 May 2025 13:00 14:00
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with Gill Hornby who will be discussing her wonderful new novel, The Elopement, which continues her witty, well-researched accounts of the lives and loves of Jane Austen's family and friends.
Gill Hornby is the Sunday Times best-selling author of Godmersham Park and Miss Austen, which was recently adapted into a hit BBC miniseries with Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen.
Book tickets here.
A Dulwich Festival event in partnership with Dulwich Books
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17 May 2025 15:00 16:00
From the Women’s Prize longlisted, British Book award-winning, bestselling author of Small Pleasures, a new novel about love, family and the joy of freedom.
Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with Gil: a charismatic, married doctor.
One spring afternoon they receive a call about a disturbance from a derelict house not far from Helen’s home. A thirty-seven-year-old man called William Tapping, with a beard down to his waist, has been discovered along with his elderly aunt. It is clear he has been shut up in the house for decades, but when it emerges that William is a talented artist, Helen is determined to discover his story.
Shy Creatures is a life-affirming novel about all the different ways we can be confined, how ordinary lives are built of delicate layers of experience, the joy of freedom and the transformative power of kindness.
Tickets: £12.50
Book tickets HERE
A Dulwich Festival event.
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