About This Event

Honorary Patron of Bury St Edmunds Literary Festival, Jill Dawson is one of Britain's most consistently brilliant novelists - and Pixie, her most recent novel is a dazzling addition to her celebrated previous titles. Across Jamaica, Devon, London and Brooklyn, Pixie is a novel of epic proportions, a tale of the twists and turns, séances and secrets, successes and devastation, of one young woman's talent, grit and determination. In Pixie, Jill renders the real-life figure of Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith, artist, publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck, in arrestingly vivid detail, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable, but has, until now, eluded popular imagination. Jill will be in conversation with her friend, writer and biographer Andrew Wilson, as they explore the sources of the novel, the history she explored in the writing of it, and her own personal connection to the tarot, and its place in her creative practice. This event is ideal for those who are also attending 3pm: Litwitchure with Jen Cowie & Fiona Lensfeld , which explores her history and meaning of the tarot and its many connections to creativity and literature. Format: Interview & Q&A Themes: Fiction, Adults, Headliner, Art, History, Literary, Book Club Access: Live Captioning Jill Dawson Books: Pixie, The Bewitching, The Language of Birds, The Crime Writer, The Tell-Tale Heart, Lucky Bunny, The Great Lover, Watch Me Disappear, Wild Boy, Fred and Edie, Magpie, Trick of the Light Jill is the author of eleven novels, one poetry collection and the editor of six anthologies of poetry and stories. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a Costa Judge, and taught creative writing in many different settings. Jill is the founder of Gold Dust Writing Mentoring and an Honorary Patron of Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival. Andrew Wilson Books: I Wanna Be Loved By You - Marilyn Monroe, A Life In 100 Takes, Beautiful Shadow - A Life Of Patricia Highsmith, Four Agatha Christie Novels: A Talent For Murder, A Different Kind Of Evil, Death In A Desert Land, I Saw Him Die, Andrew Wilson is a biographer, novelist and journalist. His latest book is I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU - MARILYN MONROE, A LIFE IN 100 TAKES. He has written biographies of Patricia Highsmith, Sylvia Plath, Alexander McQueen, the survivors of the Titanic, and a series of crime novels featuring Agatha Christie as sleuth. Tickets Standard £10 Concession: £5 U18: Free

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