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On Friday 22 January at 7.00 I'll be talking about my biography of William Golding at the Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, and on Tuesday, 26 January, at 6.00 I'll be giving the William Golding Memorial Lecture at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus (also known as the Tremough Campus), Lecture Room A. The lecture will be based on newly discovered facts and documents that shed light on Golding's engagement to a local girl during the 1930s - an episode in his life that he fictionalized in the love affair of Sammy Mountjoy and Beatrice in Free Fall.

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On Friday 20 November I'll be at the Bridport Literary Festival and will be discussing my biography of William Golding in the Bridport Arts Centre at 11 a.m.

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On Sunday 4 October at 4.30 I shall be at the Ilkley Literary Festival, in St Margaret's Hall, talking about my biography of William Golding to Professor Gweno Williams of York St John University.

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I'll be talking to Mark Lawson about my biography of William Golding in the Conference Centre at the British Library tomorrow, Tuesday 29 September at 6.30 p.m.

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On Friday 18 September I shall be talking about my biography of William Golding in Marlborough Town Hall at 7 p.m. Golding grew up in Marlborough in the house his parents leased at 29 The Green, and his father was science master at Marlborough Grammar School.

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I shall be talking about my biography of William Golding in Salisbury at the Guildhall on Friday 4 September at 7.30. Golding taught at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, from 1945, when he came out of the navy, until 1960, so I think there is a good chance there will be people who knew him or were taught by him in the audience. Salisbury Cathedral spire was visible from his classroom window, and inspired his novel The Spire.