GARDEN PARTY AND BBQ with KATE MOSSE

Saturday 13 September 2014

COME AND MEET BESTSELLING AUTHOR KATE MOSSE (1981) AND ENJOY A GARDEN PARTY AND BBQ IN THE BEAUTIFUL NEW COLLEGE GARDENS

We are delighted to invite Old Members to come along with their family and friends for a relaxed and informal day at the College.

A very special event with international bestselling author Kate Mosse, OBE (1981), just two days after the publication of her haunting new novel, The Taxidermist’s Daughter. A gothic, psychological thriller set on the marshlands of her native West Sussex, The Taxidermist’s Daughter was inspired by the author’s childhood visits to Walter Potter’s Museum of Curious Taxidermy in the 1970s – a place she found horrifying and compelling in equal measure.

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• Adults (16 and over): £35.00 per person
• Under 16: £20.00 per person (this charge includes a contribution towards the cost of the entertainment)
• Children 5 years and under: no charge

Programme:

11.00 am - 11.30 am: Soft drinks will be served in the Ante-Chapel

11.30 am - 12.30 am: Talk in the Ante-Chapel
                                    By Kate Mosse, OBE (1981)
                                    Kate Mosse: The Taxidermist's Daughter and Other Writings

 
                                                                                                                                                     © Mark Rusher

About the author
With sales of more than five million copies in 42 languages, Kate Mosse is one of the most successful writers working today. Her fiction includes the novels Labyrinth (2005), Sepulchre (2007), The Winter Ghosts (2009), and Citadel (2012), as well as an acclaimed collection of short stories, The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales (2013).

Kate is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (previously the Orange Prize) and in June 2013, was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature. Kate is also proud to have captained the victorious Celebrity University Challenge Team in December 2012, with New College alumni Patrick Gale (1980), Rachel Johnson (1984) and Dr Yan Wong (1992).

12.30 am - 1.00 pm:   Drinks served in the College Garden

1.00 pm - 2.30 pm:     BBQ Buffet Lunch
                                    Help yourself to lunch from the BBQ. Bring your own rug.

 Throughout, entertainment for the children to include: bouncy castle, face-painting, treasure hunt and more.

2.00 pm - 5.00 pm:     Archive Exhibition in the Conduit Room
                                    Kindly arranged by Jennifer Thorp, the College Archivist.

3.00 pm - 4.00 pm:     New  College Boat Club
                                    An opportunity to go out on the river with members of the NCBC.
                                    Must have rowed before, and must be able to swim.

4.00 pm - 5.00 pm:     Tea served in Temporary Hall

For any queries, please contact Jonathan Rubery on 01865 279337, or email jonathan.rubery@new.ox.ac.uk.