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September 20, 2011
The latest ‘Visiting Mabel’ blog has just gone live. That’s the 35th fortnightly posting. Mabel must be congratulated on her stamina.

October 18, 2011: At noon Duncan will be delivering a lecture at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, on the subject of writing about contemporary art.

October 26, 2011
Release date in hardback and ebook of Evelyn! Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love.

October 28, 2011
Interview on The Radio 2 Arts Show. At 11.15pm, Penny Smith will be talking to Duncan about Evelyn!

Late October
The Spectator is likely to be reviewing Evelyn! Hopefully, a few of the papers will be as well.

See Links page for explanation of these unavoidable cancellations.

November 13, 2011: 'Greene and Waugh’.

At 2.30pm Duncan will be appearing with Jeremy Lewis at the Orange Tree Theatre, as part of Richmond Literary Festival, to discuss their respective biographies of Evelyn Waugh and the Greene family. Richard Nye to chair. In preparation for the event, Duncan is reading, in the original editions, all the Graham Greene novels that Evelyn read.

This event took place as advertised and here is a picture that Kate took to prove it:

 

What a fabulous venue! In this photo, Duncan is reading from the proof copy of Evelyn! However, it’s easy to think that something Shakespearean is happening!

Saga have now updated the Visiting Mabel archive. The link is here: Saga

December 7, 2011. Belated congratulations to Archie on getting to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. See Vincent page for details.

January 23, 2012. Text about artists' Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen's project, 'The Museum of Loss and Renewal' has been written for HICA ctalogue. Publication date to follow.

January 24, 2012. New website for an old project. Not sure yet whether to make Chinese Illustrations of the Path to Immortality into an ebook or to leave it as a website. For now its online at www.immortality.org.uk

February 9, 2012: At 11am Duncan will be delivering a lecture at Edinburgh School of Art, on the subject of writing about contemporary art.