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WINTER TALES
“Winter Tales was an exciting innovation for the School of Divinity, bringing novelists, poets and storytellers together with readers of all ages.
At the end last year, our 175th anniversary celebrations came to a close with the inaugural Winter Tales festival of Literature, Religion, and the Imagination – a weekend-long event led by Prof. Jolyon Mitchell and Dr Alison Jack that saw a stellar cast of authors address audiences in the Assembly Hall, including the Costa Book Award winner Francis Spufford, Marina Warner, and New College alumnus Miles Jupp.Dr Jack hopes that the event will be the first of many. “Winter Tales was an exciting innovation for the School of Divinity, bringing novelists, poets and storytellers together with readers of all ages. Writers such as Val McDermid,
Sally Magnusson and Robert Harris held us spellbound as they spoke about the complex relationship between religion and literature in their novels.“Plans for the New College Festival of Books and Belief this November are well underway, building on the success of Winter Tales. I’m looking forward to it already!”
Sally Magnusson and Robert Harris held us spellbound as they spoke about the complex relationship between religion and literature in their novels.“Plans for the New College Festival of Books and Belief this November are well underway, building on the success of Winter Tales. I’m looking forward to it already!”
