Cardiff BookTalk

Cardiff BookTalk is a University book group with a difference: we discuss expert perspectives and readers' ideas about the big issues in a range of books.

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

📢ANNOUNCEMENT KLAXON

Our next BookTalk will be on Simone deBeauvoir's classic, Prix Goncourt-winning novel THE MANDARINS, which celebrates its 70th birthday this year

Fittingly enough, we're doing this one in a cafe. See you at Little Man Coffee on 4 June

[Emma Harding @EmmaHarding01]

Our @BBCRadio4 production of Samantha Harvey’s @TheBookerPrizes winning novel #Orbital is being repeated 1.45pm Mon-Fri & available as a box set @BBCSounds Read by Anneika Rose, abridged by Sara Davies & produced by @MaryWL1 & @MairBosworth #fiction #books https://t.co/OimhrbE9ze

[CUEnglishCommPhilos @CUEngCommPhilos]

Face-to-face with the enemy
Ymchwil newydd ar ddod wyneb-yn-wyneb â’r gelyn dros y ddwy ganrif ddiwethaf yn cael ei dangos mewn arddangosfa newydd yn yr Amgueddfa Ryfel Ymerodrol
@I_W_M @FurneauxHolly @prifysgolCdydd
https://t.co/KoORvQCHBa

[CUEnglishCommPhilos @CUEngCommPhilos]

Face-to-face with the enemy
New research on enemy encounters over the last two centuries features in new @I_W_M exhibition
@FurneauxHolly @cardiffuni
https://t.co/MlXolnWh3r
#armistice #RemembranceDay

[CUEnglishCommPhilos @CUEngCommPhilos]

Author recognised in UK’s book prize celebrating emerging and established LGBTQ+ writers 💫
🖋️Rachel Dawson (BA English Literature 2010) has been longlisted in @PolariPrize 2024 for her book Neon Roses in the First Book category.
Congrats @racheldawson8 🥳https://t.co/JFxlahF5lA

[Cardiff University Hedgehog Friendly Campus @CUHedgehogs]

Summer is here! We got our @HogFriendly Gold Award, but the HEBHOGS team never rests 😊!

Pop in on Monday, 19 Aug, 10am-3pm in the Hadyn Ellis Building foyer for another cake & craft sale. All proceedings will be used to help 🦔 on campus & wider city. Raffle tickets available.

[Dr Anna Mercer @annamercer_]

I’m on @BBCRadio4 talking a little bit about Mary Shelley, collaboration, influence, & the power of Frankenstein as a novel for ‘Opening Lines’. Thank you to producer Kate McAll, it was such a delight to work with you! https://t.co/Yy6oJDP9GJ

[CUEnglishCommPhilos @CUEngCommPhilos]

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
🎙️Our own @annamercer_ - a Shelley expert - on the writer, literature & her creation of #Frankenstein
📻Opening Lines with @johnyorke123 on @BBCRadio4
Enjoy! https://t.co/2O1rUQuwod

[Literature Wales @LitWales]

Almost finished your work in progress, but unsure how to submit to publishers?

Join our FREE session with publishers from Wales; @SerenBooks, @LucentDreaming, @calonbooks and @parthianbooks.

Wednesday 24 July | 6.00pm-7.00pm

Sign up here: https://t.co/HL1SPYv90Y

[CUEnglishCommPhilos @CUEngCommPhilos]

Congrats to Tom Bullough 📖
We look forward to welcoming you to talk about Sarn Helen. What an exciting addition to @CardiffBookTalk next year!
It's been our pleasure to be principal sponsor of Overall Wales Book of the Year Award 2024 🌳
@GrantaBooks @LitWales #WBOTY24

[CUEnglishCommPhilos @CUEngCommPhilos]

Llongyfarchiadau i Tom Bullough 📖
Edrychwn ymlaen at eich croesawu i siarad am Sarn Helen. Am ychwanegiad cyffrous i @CardiffBookTalk flwyddyn nesaf!
Mae wedi bod yn bleser gennym fod yn brif noddwr Gwobr Llyfr y Flwyddyn 2024 yn gyffredinol 🌳
@GrantaBooks @LitWales #WBOTY24

[CUEnglishCommPhilos @CUEngCommPhilos]

Catch our own @GaryRaymond_ in the #HayesLectures at @WaterstonesCDF 📚
🔊 The Arts Show presenter talks all things Welsh writing Tues 25 Jun 7pm https://t.co/F6izCZmtlw
Abandon All Hope: A Personal Journey Through the History of Welsh Literature is out now with @UniWalesPress

[CUEnglishCommPhilos @CUEngCommPhilos]

Dewch i weld ein @GaryRaymond_ ein hunain yn y #HayesLectures yn @WaterstonesCDF 📚
🔊 Cyflwynydd y Sioe Gelfyddydau yn siarad am bopeth ysgrifennu Cymreig 25 Meh https://t.co/F6izCZmtlw
Abandon All Hope: A Personal Journey Through the History of Welsh Literature @UniWalesPress

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

Thanks to everyone who came along to @littlemancoffee for our BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir this week, and special thanks also to our brilliant speakers Juliana De Albuquerque, Mary Edwards, John Gillespie and Dianna Taylor

We'll be back soon with news of our next sessions!

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

TONIGHT

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[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

📢ANNOUNCEMENT KLAXON

Our next BookTalk will be on Simone deBeauvoir's classic, Prix Goncourt-winning novel THE MANDARINS, which celebrates its 70th birthday this year

Fittingly enough, we're doing this one in a cafe. See you at Little Man Coffee on 4 June

[Mary Edwards @_MaryEds]

Very much looking forward to an existential BookTalk this evening! @CardiffBookTalk @cardiffphilos #Beauvoir #TheMandarins

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

Today's blog: in advance of next week's BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Mandarins we're getting to grips with existentialist thought.

In an interview from 1959, Beauvoir discusses her athiesm and her belief in examining the individual conscience.

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

TOMORROW

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[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

We're meeting to discuss Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Mandarins next Tuesday 4 June @littlemancoffee

Book your free place and find out more on our blog: https://t.co/ZRfuORYt1U

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

FIVE MORE DAYS

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[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

📢ANNOUNCEMENT KLAXON

Our next BookTalk will be on Simone deBeauvoir's classic, Prix Goncourt-winning novel THE MANDARINS, which celebrates its 70th birthday this year

Fittingly enough, we're doing this one in a cafe. See you at Little Man Coffee on 4 June

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

We're meeting to discuss Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Mandarins next Tuesday 4 June @littlemancoffee

Book your free place and find out more on our blog: https://t.co/ZRfuORYt1U

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

Existentialism and God over on the blog this week:

'...we consider good all that serves the interests, happiness, development of Man. And evil is all that goes against it. This is absolutely the fundamental basis of what we may call our ethics, or even morals.’

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

Today's blog: in advance of next week's BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Mandarins we're getting to grips with existentialist thought.

In an interview from 1959, Beauvoir discusses her athiesm and her belief in examining the individual conscience.