Hi Folks,
I found this by accident.
Dennis Wheatley – the man, his life and his works is a lecture being delivered at this year's Essex Book Festival, as part of the Essex Book Festival’s Golden Age of Crime Weekend in Southend-on-Sea, 11 & 12 March.
The actual lecture is at 11am, on Saturday 11th March, at the Park Inn Palace Hotel, Church Road, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 2AL.
See http://essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/dennis-wheatley/ for details. The presenter looks a handsome fellow.
I wonder if anyone from this community can manage to get there and report back to us.......
DW to feature in Essex Book Festival
DW to feature in Essex Book Festival
Regards,
Darren.
Darren.
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Yes, I got there and the talk was first rate.
The venue was an airy, sunlit conference room overlooking the estuary and the audience took up a very respectable 50 or so seats out of the available 70.
Charles' discourse focused on colourful vignettes from DW's life -his service on the Ypres Salient, his friendship with Gordon-Tombe etc.- which nicely gave a sense of the drama and dash of the man's life. The speaker's pitch was both light and authoritative and the crowd were clearly charmed by him.
Charles also put some rather impressive artefacts on display, such as a bottle of DW's homemade nectarine gin, an original Wheatley & Son catalogue and Wheatley's signed copy of Aleister Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice.
The subsequent Q and A session was lively and congenial and the questions sharp and interesting- one chap asking if, given Wheatley's belief in reincarnation, Charles had any idea who the great man might have come back as.
A very pleasant day out and one rounded off with beers in a pub near the station.
The venue was an airy, sunlit conference room overlooking the estuary and the audience took up a very respectable 50 or so seats out of the available 70.
Charles' discourse focused on colourful vignettes from DW's life -his service on the Ypres Salient, his friendship with Gordon-Tombe etc.- which nicely gave a sense of the drama and dash of the man's life. The speaker's pitch was both light and authoritative and the crowd were clearly charmed by him.
Charles also put some rather impressive artefacts on display, such as a bottle of DW's homemade nectarine gin, an original Wheatley & Son catalogue and Wheatley's signed copy of Aleister Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice.
The subsequent Q and A session was lively and congenial and the questions sharp and interesting- one chap asking if, given Wheatley's belief in reincarnation, Charles had any idea who the great man might have come back as.
A very pleasant day out and one rounded off with beers in a pub near the station.
Hi Folks - there is a review of the Dennis Wheatley event held at the Essex Book Festival on the Bloomsbury Reader website, by Camilla Shestopal. Camilla Shestopal works as an agent involved in selling rights to bring great classic authors back into the public consciousness - hence her interest in DW. Eric Ambler is another one of her projects.
https://bloomsburyreader.wordpress.com/ ... -festival/
https://bloomsburyreader.wordpress.com/ ... -festival/
Regards,
Darren.
Darren.