25 February 2012 - 26 February 2012

Selina Hastings to appear at Perth Writers Festival

Selina Hastings is a writer and literary journalist who worked on the Daily Telegraph for fourteen years and subsequently became the literary editor for Harpers & Queen. She has published biographies of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Rosamond Lehmann. Her biography of Waugh won the Marsh biography prize.

Selina Hastings has had access to Maugham’s extensive private correspondence as well as to important family testimony, which sheds a fascinating new light on this complex and extraordinary man for her latest book, ‘The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham’.

Selina’s appearances at the Perth Writers Festival are listed below:

Event Title: People I Have Known

Date: Saturday, 25th February

Time: 9:30 – 10:30am

Venue: Hackett Hall

Event Title: A Public Life

Date: Saturday, 25th February

Time: 2:00 – 3:00pm

Venue: Romeo Tent

Event Title: Setting Things Straight

Date: Sunday, 26th February

Time: 9:30 – 10:30am

Venue: University Club Theatre

For more information about any of these events, or to book a ticket please head to the Perth Festival website here.

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