Alison Light reads an excerpt from her new book 'Red, Red Robin' at the 60+ Festival in the Guildhall.
Alison Light is reading from her new book, Red, Red Robin, at the Guildhall on Tuesday 6 October. It's part of the 60+ Festival, which Portsmouth City Council runs across the city, from the Guildhall and Central Library to community centres and libraries. This year's edition is a 'Portsmouth100' one, marking the centenary of the city's city status, which it gained in 1926, and the festival continues to promote clubs and activities for older residents.
Light is a Portsmouth writer, sixth generation of her family born in the city, and she grew up on Liverpool Road in Fratton. Red, Red Robin brings together memories of her childhood in Portsmouth in the 1950s and the city's post-war history, drawing on photographs, songs and memorabilia; she calls the book 'my long goodbye'. It's not her first family-history title, either: Common People (2014) was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in Non-Fiction.
On the day, she'll be reading an excerpt from the new book, so you'll get a proper sense of the writing before you commit to the whole thing. It's a local story told by someone who knows the city from the inside, and the reading is just one part of the wider festival programme running across Portsmouth.
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The reading is in the Council Chamber at the Guildhall on Tuesday 6 October, starting at 10:30am. Many of the festival's activities are free, and some cost between £1 and £10.
