MERVYN PEAKE LECTURE

To celebrate what would have been Mervyn Peake's 100th year, his son Sebastian will be delivering a talk about his father's work in Worcester next Saturday. I'm a big fan of Gormenghast and Peake's illustrations - he had a unique eye for the grotesque and characterful in whatever he did - so I picked up a ticket at the Box Office today. Though not strictly on-topic for this project, I think it will be a rare opportunity to learn about one of Britain's great authors from a source that was close to him. This might be of interest to Tom as well, since Peake made an inspired interpretation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I scanned the newspaper advertisement: