Talk by Writer Rebecca Stott

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Novelist Rebecca Stott will be talking about her most recent novel Dark Earth, set in the ruins of Londinium in the sixth century - described by the Observer as 'radically new and beautiful'.  She will describe how she went about imaginatively reconstructing this darkest corner of what used to be called 'The Dark Ages', which involved research not just in libraries, but also conversations with archaeologists and other experts, and reveal some of the extraordinary things she found out along the way.  

Rebecca Stott is a novelist, historian, scriptwriter and broadcaster and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature  She moved to Lewes in 2022.  Her family memoir In the Days of Rain won the Costa Biography prize in 2017.  She has taught literature and writing in universities for 32 years, including most recently as Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UEA, but has now given up teaching to write full-time.  She is currently working on a television series on Boudicca.