The Susan Manning Lecture 2017 – Free Event
Friday 24th March 2017 - 5.30pm – 7pm
“A Sense of Home”
Caryl Phillips is a novelist, critic and academic. He is the author of eight novels, including Crossing the River (1993), winner of the James Tait Black Prize, and Dancing in the Dark (2005), winner of the 2006 Pen/Beyond the Margins Prize. His most recent novel is The Lost Child (2015). He has also written a number of non-fiction works, including A New World Order (2001) and Color Me English (2011).
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