Trust & Festival News

On October 2nd,  to mark Graham Greene’s 116th birthday, we will be publishing the talk Michael Hill would have been giving at the Graham Greene International Festival this year. Sadly, but understandably, the festival had to be cancelled owing to the ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic. Mike’s talk will be on A Gun for Sale. This was […]

Richard Greene’s biography of Graham Greene, Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene has been widely reviewed already. There may well be others, but to date reviews have appeared in The Independent, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Tablet, Prospect, The Spectator and The Evening Standard. The Standard called the book, ‘a brilliant […]

Richard Greene’s biography Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene is published today in the UK. Last month, Richard was interviewed by A Sort of Newsletter Editor and former Festival Director Michael Hill. Here is a transcript of the interview to mark this important event: _________ AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD GREENE  Your first […]

While the publication  in English of Professor Carlos Villar Flor’s book on Greene’s travels around Spain and Portugal with Father Durán is both hopefully and eagerly anticipated, it is timely to reflect on the 1982 novel Monsignor Quixote itself. The first chapter appeared in The Tablet in 1978; at that stage Greene had no plans […]

Richard Dreyfus and Marsha Mason who starred together in the film The Goodbye Girl (1977), for which Dreyfus won an Oscar, will re-unite for a virtual performance of The Letters of Noël Coward. The event takes place at the Bay Street Theater, (www.playbill.com/article/richard-dreyfuss-and-marsha-mason-to-virtually-reunite) on 25 August. The down-side, for those living in the UK, it […]

Mike Hill, editor of A Sort of Newsletter,  has arranged a special discount for those in the UK wanting to purchase a copy of Richard Greene’s new biography of Graham Greene: Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene. The offer is an attractive one. If you buy it direct from the publisher Little […]

The winner of the inaugural Graham Greene Film Review Competition is Andrew Key for his review of ‘Fruitvale Station’. The Chairman of the judges, Quentin Falk, writes, ‘On behalf of my fellow judges, Emma Clarke and Jo Wilson, I would first like to congratulate the organisers of this first Graham Greene Film Review Competition, and […]

A very significant milestone will be achieved this Autumn with the publication of a single-volume biography of Graham Greene by his non-related namesake Professor Richard Greene of Toronto University. Most will agree that, thus far, Graham Greene has not been well served by his biographers and that a concise, dispassionate narrative of the writer’s life […]

Despite coronavirus and the fact that our beloved festival has had to be cancelled this year, the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust continues to function as normal. Please find attached a copy of the Annual Report and Financial Statement of the 31st May 2020. This has been prepared by the Trust’s Treasurer Chris Allard. We are […]

The GGBT website is delighted and most encouraged by the fact that we continue to receive a steady number of articles for our Current Research page. It proves yet again that Graham Greene and his works still provide an active forum for research and debate. To this end, Andrei Gorzo, who was scheduled to give […]