We are very pleased to welcome Dr Anna Beer to Somerville. A Fellow, and formerly Director of the Creative Writing MSt at Kellogg College in Oxford, Anna has recently brought out her first book of detective fiction, set in the city: Death of an Englishman: An Oxford Mystery. Her protagonist, literary detective Eve Brook, is clearly destined to become a regular fictional friend…
Anna’s academic work has focused on feminist rethinking of the canonical, with Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music in 2016, and most recently, Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature in 2022. Her interest in Dorothy L. Sayers will find her joining us at Somerville again next spring for our next literary weekend.
Please do join us in person at 5pm on Monday 8th December, in the Margaret Thatcher Centre, for Anna’s talk, “It doesn’t do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be”: writing an Oxford murder mystery in the shadow of Dorothy L. Sayers. This will be followed by afternoon tea. There will be an opportunity to buy a copy of Death of an Englishman, or you can opt to buy this, at a reduced cost, as part of your ticket price.
If you are not able to be with us in person, then please do register to join us online as this will be one of our hybrid talks. If you book for the Zoom link below, we will send that out to you shortly before the date of the event.