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A Chance to see Shades of Greene
Read more: A Chance to see Shades of GreeneAre you wondering how to pass the time until the next Graham Greene International Festival…
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The 26th Graham Greene International Festival 2025: Programme of talks and events
Read more: The 26th Graham Greene International Festival 2025: Programme of talks and eventsThursday 25 September Afternoon 1415: Court House, beside St Peter’s Church. Graham Greene’s Common: A…
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Audio Recordings of Past Festival talks
Read more: Audio Recordings of Past Festival talksThe annual Graham Greene International Festival has not only given much entertainment over the years…
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‘Reading at Night’: an unpublished Greene short story emerges
Read more: ‘Reading at Night’: an unpublished Greene short story emergesA hitherto unpublished short story by Graham Greene has received some very welcome press in…
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RAMÓN RAMI PORTA: Greene , Panama and Chuchú
Read more: RAMÓN RAMI PORTA: Greene , Panama and ChuchúSurgeon and Greene scholar Ramón Rami Porta delves into Greene’s relationship with Panama’s José de Jesús…
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Greene’s songs
Read more: Greene’s songsA query from Andraž Gombač, an editor at the Slovenian publishing house Beletrina, concerning a…
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Reading Greene in a world of glass and steel
Read more: Reading Greene in a world of glass and steelZoeb Matin, our regular correspondent from India, “Our Man in Mumbai/Bombay”, shares with us his…
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Lucius – the mystery of the motive
Read more: Lucius – the mystery of the motiveASON readers will perhaps recognise the name Lucius. It’s an unfinished novel written by Graham Greene in the…
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NIGEL PURSE: Greene’s Mexico and The Power and the Glory
Read more: NIGEL PURSE: Greene’s Mexico and The Power and the GloryIn 2023, Nigel Purse visited Mexico and took with him a copy of Graham Greene’s…
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Lucas Townsend’s Doctoral success
Read more: Lucas Townsend’s Doctoral successRegular Festival-goers will no doubt recognise Lucas Townsend from his photograph. Notwithstanding his youth, Lucas…
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ZOEB MATIN: Graham Greene’s The Other Side of the Border
Read more: ZOEB MATIN: Graham Greene’s The Other Side of the BorderZoeb Matin looks at an unfinished, discarded, hence unpublished Greene novel from the 1930s entitled…
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KEVIN RUANE: Casting Thomas Fowler – Laurence Olivier, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and the 1958 movie version of The Quiet American
Read more: KEVIN RUANE: Casting Thomas Fowler – Laurence Olivier, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and the 1958 movie version of The Quiet AmericanDrawing on the rich but often neglected archives of the American Academy of Motion Pictures…
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2024 Festival audio recordings
Read more: 2024 Festival audio recordingsHighlights include Nicholas Shakespeare on Greene’s relationship with Ian Fleming and Nigel West on Greene…
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‘The field is full of shades’: in memory of Brian Shepherd and Dermot Gilvary
Read more: ‘The field is full of shades’: in memory of Brian Shepherd and Dermot GilvaryIt is with a sense of true sadness that the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust announces…
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PHILIP HORMBREY: François Gallix and Greene’s story ‘The Empty Chair’
Read more: PHILIP HORMBREY: François Gallix and Greene’s story ‘The Empty Chair’In 2008 the late Professor François Gallix found a fragment of an early Graham Greene…
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François Gallix (1939-2024)
Read more: François Gallix (1939-2024)Mike Hill It was at this year’s Festival I heard the sad news that François…
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Put out more chairs (not flags)!!! The 25th Graham Greene International Festival
Read more: Put out more chairs (not flags)!!! The 25th Graham Greene International FestivalWhen the organisers have to put out more chairs – they know they have a…
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Good luck, Lucas Townsend
Read more: Good luck, Lucas TownsendOur Birthplace Trustee and Membership Secretary Lucas Townsend is coming to the end of his…