At our lunch in Oxford at Balliol College in June 2019, our most recent award winner, Ben Welford was presented with the annual Actors’ Award by Chair, Seona Ford. Further information about the Award and our collaboration with the Theatre Centre can be found here
Ben Welford, Actors’ Award Winner with Seona Ford, Chair
The Society has published a collection of works by Dorothy L. Sayers:
God, Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey: Selected Essays, Speeches and Articles by Dorothy L Sayers, edited, with Preface and Commentary by Professor Suzanne Bray.
This collection includes ‘The Wimsey Papers’ letters between LPW, Harriet and others that were published in The Spectator during WWII.
Please contact the Society if you would like to buy a copy.
In a discussion of a recent inheritance case, Jill Paton Walsh and Seona Ford discuss two novels by DLS. Listen here.
16th-18th August
Speakers include: Val McDermid, Andrew Taylor, Lin Anderson, Nicci French and Denise Mina.
See here for further details.
Member, Heather Norburn, has kindly allowed us to add her photos from a recent visit to Oxford to see the birthplace of DLS and where she studied, at Somerville College. DLS was born in Brewer Street, in the Headmaster’s House for the Cathedral Choir School. She later returned to Oxford as a student and after finishing her studies, worked for Blackwell’s.
We will be returning to Oxford this year for our DLS Birthday Lunch in June, when we will be at Balliol College and in 2020, when our Annual Convention will be held at Somerville College.
Members met other crime fiction enthusiasts at The Park Inn, Southend, for the Golden Age of Crime weekend, as part of the Essex Book Festival. Held between 15th and 17th March, the weekend offered talks by Jessica Fellowes, Stella Duffy, Martin Edwards and talks about the crime fiction of C.S. Forrester, better known for his historical naval fiction.
Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera series of crime fiction, gave the Annual Lecture at Witham library on 8 March, as part of the Essex Book Festival, 2019. Ann spoke of her liking for strong women, including Sayers’ character, Harriet Vane and also talked about her creation of her own strong woman character, Vera. Members and guests met for supper beforehand at Gimsons, home of DLSS Chair, Seona Ford.
www.anncleeves.com
