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On 22nd July, at 7 pm, Miranda will be talking to novelist and translator Tim Parks about his latest book, Teach us to Sit Still:A Sceptic's Search for Faith and Healing. The event is at the London Review Bookshop, Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL
Miranda will be a guest speaker at the Dovedale Arts Festival, 12th September - where she will be talking about memoirs and
biography - find more at www.dovedalearts.co.uk.
On 12th October Miranda will also be appearing at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, where she will be speaking about Mary Shelley.
Commemoration for Helle Nice Delangle
Helle Nice Delangle, one of the great women drivers of the twentieth century, died in Nice in 1984 - friendless and forgotten. She is buried in the cemetery at Sainte Mesme where the family grave doesn't even record her name.
Thanks to the publication of The Bugatti Queen and to The Helle Nice Foundation (for women in sport) which Sheryl Green was inspired by the book to create, Helle Nice's name has been cleared of vicious slanders and given the honour she deserved.
On 4 September, 2010, a commemorative plaque recording her principal achievements will be placed beside the family plot at Ste Mesme (just outside Paris)
Miranda Seymour, Sheryl Greene, Patricia Yongue and many eminent representatives of the French sports world will be the speakers and we invite you to join us. Five hundred visitors are currently planning to attend.
For further information, contact:
Association Souvenir Helle Nice
9 rue du Buisson, 78780 Sainte-Mesme
or
bruno.perrin3@wanadoo.fr
New Book: Chaplin's Girl
The enchanting story of 1930s Hollywood darling Virginia Cherrill, who traded international stardom for true love, due out as paperback in May.
"I loved Chaplin's Girl - a great read about someone I had absolutely no knowledge of. It was a delight from start to finish. What a life!" Derek Jacobi
"What a terrific accomplishment...I have just finished it and I'm knocked out by the portrait of Virginia and her life. I'm sad it's over – always my mark of a great read" Henry Jaglom, celebrated Hollywood director (Always, Last Summer in the Hamptons)
"It's a rags-to-riches story, a real-life version of the American Dream. It involves a beautiful girl, a Hollywood legend, the world's most handsome man, fame, wealth, aristocracy, sex, scandal, and ultimately the redemptive powers of love...extraordinary" Daily Express
"Seymour's beautifully measured, elegant biography does ample justice to its captivating subject" Good Book Guide
Buy it from Amazon.co.uk HERE
Last Book: In My Father's House
Both biography and family memoir, Miranda Seymour's latest book - IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE - (winner of the 2008 Pen Ackerley prize) is a riveting and ultimately shocking portrait of desire both overt and suppressed, and the devastating consequences of misplaced love.
Widely acclaimed in the US, Thrumpton Hall / In My Father's House was a New York Times Book of the Year choice.
"Miranda Seymour's cathartic memoir of her father's obsessive love for a house is a brave expose of a private family" Daily Mail 2/2
"The shocking nature, the strangeness and brilliance of this extraordinary work…beautifully written and expertly structured"
Buy it from Amazon.co.uk HERE