Quentin Letts – Nunc
18th October @ 11:00 – 12:00
Sunday Times bestselling author Quentin Letts pens a new novel: a modern twist on one of the greatest (yet underlooked) narratives in Christianity: The ‘Nunc Dimittis’, based on ten verses in St Luke’s Gospel. This is the story of Simeon, a man who was told he would not die before he saw the Messiah. He waited at the Temple in Jerusalem until he saw the infant Jesus.
But who was Simeon? Why did he wait? And how did the month-old Jesus escape King Herod’s infamous massacre of the infants?
Nunc! transports you to the Jerusalem of Herod the Great, where Simeon’s old army friend Reuben runs a tea stall selling heavenly honey cakes and fig bread in Deuteronomy Square. When Bildad the beekeeper’s hive goes missing, grocer’s boy Benjamin, owner of a mule and cart that might be a getaway vehicle, is a suspect. The drawlingly subversive Zillah, whose political salon lends her influence, and Simeon’s long-suffering landlady Noor intervene, enduring a power-mad Roman centurion, Lucilius, and the snivelling authoritarian Kedar, the city’s clerk of works. Quentin Letts brings first-century Jerusalem to life and helps an ailing 21st-century Englishman come to terms with his future.
QUENTIN LETTS is political sketch writer for the Daily Mail. A regular broadcaster on radio and television, he was formerly New York correspondent for The Times, gossip columnist for the Daily Telegraph, theatre critic for the Sunday Times and parliamentary sketch writer for The Times. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain. His hobbies are gossip, hymn-singing and cricket. He lives in rural Herefordshire.
Quentin Letts will be in conversation with Lulu Taylor.
Tickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
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