Martin Bell and John Sutherland at the upcoming Oxford Literary Festival

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Martin Bell, author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, and John Sutherland, author of The Dickens Dictionary, will be speaking at the forthcoming The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival.

Martin Bell will be talking about, and reciting poetry from, his book For Whom the Bell Tolls on Saturday 24th March. Bell’s poems oscillate between trenchant satire and touching honesty with often poignant autobiography spiced with gentle humour. He presents poems on Tony Blair and Iraq, on Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic, and on his hero, Reuters reporter Kurt Schork. Tickets are £10 and available here.

Icon also republishes Martin Bell’s In Harm’s Way next month.

John Sutherland will be answering the question ‘Does it matter whether we know about the lives of authors?’ on Wednesday 28th March. Sutherland’s The Dickens Dictionary was published by Icon last month, a gloriously wide-ranging alphabetical companion to Dickens’ novels, excavating the hidden links between his characters, themes, and preoccupations, and the minutiae of his endlessly inventive wordplay. Tickets are £10 and available here.