BOOKING FORM
OUR SPEAKERS
Address & postcode:
Prof
Stuart
Murray
is
Professor
of
Contemporary
Literatures and Film in the School of English at the University of
Leeds. He is the author of eight books and almost certainly wouldn’t
be in his current job had he not started to read Swallows and
Amazons in the mid 1970's.
Tel No:
Aishwarya Subramanian is studying for a PhD at Newcastle
University having secured a BA in English Literature at the University
of Delhi and an M.Phil. in Popular Literature at Trinity College Dublin.
Her current research is exploring 20th Century children’s literature,
particularly fantasy, within the context of the end of empire.
Name:
E-Mail
TARS membership number
Option
Name of other in party (if applicable)
Cost £
TOTAL COST £
Do you require a twin room?
Yes / No
Do you need a ground floor room?
Yes / No
Special diet (please outline your needs)
I have read and understood the terms and
conditions of booking and enclose (please select):
The Full amount £
or
A £75 deposit. Balance to pay on arrival £
Signed:
Literary Weekend
Winchester
2015
Daniel Dahl is a practising artist, who has also worked as an art
teacher and lecturer. He has run various arts and community
organisations and projects. He and his partner Joy divide their time
between their house in London and their cottage in coastal Suffolk.
Daniel is still learning to sail.
Cost £
Option
The Thirteenth TARS
Date:
Please make cheques payable to: TARS Literary
Please post to David Middleton:
9 Merrow Avenue, Poole, Dorset, BH12 1PY
Booking queries to [email protected]
Other queries to [email protected]
Simon Browne started reading S & A aged 7. His favourite, Winter
Holiday, cost him the challenging amount of 13/6 pocket money in
1962. He learnt to sail on holiday at Broadstairs and has been lucky
enough to sail to Iceland and the North Cape of Norway. He has a
website dedicated to Fridtjof Nansen’s literary output and influence
and is in the frenetic process of self-publication of a book on that
subject.
Julian Lovelock has recently retired as Pro Vice-Chancellor at the
University of Buckingham, where he lectured in English Literature. He
is using some of his new-found time to write Swallows and Amazons
and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome. He is a member of TARS’s
Literary & Resources Committee and the new editor of Mixed Moss.
Margaret Ratcliffe has been a very active TARS member for over
20 years; regularly contributing to – everything – and is currently
multi-tasking as an author, editor and saleslady with Amazon
Publications.
Dr Sarah Spooner has an MA from Newcastle University and a PhD
from the University of Reading entitled, “’Knowing its Place?’:
Language and Landscape in Arthur Ransome”. She has previously
taught at the University of Reading and currently works in publishing.
Paul Crisp - long term contributor to Amazon Publications including
Fair Cops and Glowworms and Drawn at a Venture. A life-long reader
of P.G.Wodehouse, he would join the Drones Club tomorrow if asked.
Tim Bowler has written over twenty books for teenagers and won
fifteen awards, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal for River
Boy. He has been described by the Sunday Telegraph as “the master
of the psychological thriller” and by the Independent as “one of the
truly individual voices in British teenage fiction”. His books have sold
over a million copies worldwide.
The Wessex Conference Centre
Sparsholt
4th – 6th September
Provisional Programme
Saturday Evening
4:00pm – Registration opens
7:00pm – Evening Meal
8:30pm – Welcome and Introductions
Speaker: Julian Lovelock
“A Proper Gorgeous story”:
The telling of Peter Duck
9:45pm - Bar
Saturday Morning
7:30am – 9:00am Breakfast
9:30am – Talks commence – Speakers:
Daniel Dahl - "Visual Ransome": an examination
of his strengths, weaknesses, struggles and
successes as an illustrator, and the way his
approaches to his illustrations for the Swallows and
Amazons books reveal more about his approaches
as an author.
Simon Browne - “The Literary Influence of
Fridtjof Nansen.”
11:15am Coffee, Tea and Biscuits.
Margaret Ratcliffe & Paul Crisp
“Lurking in the Library”
or
Talented Tars make good APs.
Bar
7:00pm – Gala Dinner
Best Bib & Tucker, please
………….
8:30pm – Tim Bowler
“My Debt to Arthur Ransome”
Bar
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Friday Evening
Conditions of Booking
* The Arthur Ransome Society, its servants, agents
and volunteers are not under any liability whatsoever
in respect of personal injury, loss or damage however
caused while attending the Literary Weekend 2015.
Sunday Morning
* The contents of this provisional programme may be
subject to change and TARS cannot be held
responsible for alterations.
7:30 - 9:00am - Breakfast
9:30am – Talks commence – Speakers:
Bookings are accepted only on the above
understanding.
Aishwarya Subramanian "Unmapping Empire: Swallows and Amazons and the
end of adventure"
Venue - The Westley Conference Centre is part of
Sparsholt College which is set in 450 acres of beautiful
Hampshire countryside, 3 miles from Winchester.
Residential accommodation is en-suite with bed linen
provided. There are some twin rooms and plenty of
ground floor rooms. Our conference, bar and dining
facilities are all at ground floor level and very close to
each other. There is ample free parking. Their web
site http://conferences.sparsholt.ac.uk gives additional
information, including maps and photos. Further
details, including travel options for those arriving by
train or bus, will be sent following receipt of booking.
Dr Sarah Spooner - “'Knowing its Place?’:
Language and Landscape in Arthur Ransome."
11:15am – Coffee, Tea and Biscuits
Professor Stuart Murray
'Visualising Wild Cat Island: Bringing Swallows and
Amazons to the Screen': on how a canonical text like
Swallows and Amazons, imagined by so many
readers in their own mind, becomes realised visually.
1:15pm Lunch, followed by closing remarks.
2:30pm depart for home.
Booking options – please select from the following
options and fill out the form overleaf.
1:15pm - Lunch
Saturday Afternoon
Option A: Full residential weekend
£225
Option B: Part weekend
arriving Saturday after breakfast
£185
Option C: Non Residential.
£135
Conference and all meals except breakfasts.
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Free time to enjoy Winchester or the Hampshire
Countryside. Information on the range of visitor
attractions will be provided in your conference pack.
A short guided tour of Winchester will be arranged.
* No booking is considered firm until the deposit has
been received. In the event of cancellation after
6th August, or your non-arrival at Sparsholt, the full
amount will still be payable, although individual cases
will be considered in exceptional circumstances.