Orange Prize-winning novelist and poet Helen Dunmore is one of the UK’s best-loved writers. Here, in discussion with Heather Reyes, as part of the Year of Reading Dangerously world writing project, she returns to her unforgettable St Petersburg-set novels The Siege and The Betrayal and tells us why she loves Russian writing so much, as well as talking about her new novel Exposure which also has a Russian connection.
19 March, 3pm
Colchester Library, Trinity Square, Colchester CO1 1JB
Tickets: £7, £5 (25yrs & under) 01206 573948 or mercurytheatre.co.uk
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