EVENT CANCELLED
We are sorry to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances this event is cancelled.
Norman Lewis was the best not-famous writer of his generation, and a better writer than almost all who were. From the 1950s to the 1990s he wrote books that have survived better than all but a handful of novels.
His account of south-east Asia before the Vietnam war - A Dragon Apparent - remains required reading, and Voices of the Old Sea, a glimpse of Spain as it was before the tourists arrived, is a classic in the literature of the Mediterranean.
For more than 20 years he spied for the British government, raced Bugattis before the war, lived in Ibiza after it, and was a crack shot, flamboyant host, and a businessman with Mafia connections.
Julian Evans' portrait of The Semi-Invisible Man is a fascinating personal account of a suburban fugitive and adventurer; a writer of unsurpassed humour, wisdom and compassion for the ridiculous; the Defoe of our times.
Tickets
£4 including a glass of wine/juice and £4 off the book. Purchase tickets in advance from Stanfords Bristol; tel: 0117 929 9966.