Tuesday November 18th
7 pm
Oxford University Japan Society
Oriel College, Oxford
Illustrated lecture on The Last Concubine: Secrets of the Women’s Palace

Free for members, £1.50 for non-members

Lesley Downer is featured author on the Canadian Penguin Book Club website.

Canadian paperback of The Last Concubine

There are two German language interviews with Lesley Downer online at BYM.de and NDRKultur.de, which also includes a radio interview available as an audio podcast.

The Last Concubine will shortly be released in German, published by C. Bertelsmann under the title Die letzte Konkubine.

Japan’s new professional seducers

This woman leads a double life. Her boyfriend thinks she’s a secretary. In fact she is one of Japan’s new breed of professional seducers, hired by embittered spouses to entrap their straying partners. And she’ll stop at nothing to get the desired results.

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This article appeared in the Sunday Times on August 31 2008 in the Life and Style - Women section.

The Last Concubine has been published in Italian by Piemme under the title L’ultima concubina.

Monday October 6th
7 pm
Borders, York
Illustrated lecture on The Last Concubine: Secrets of the Women’s Palace
In collaboration with York Japan Day, October 5th/6th

Tuesday November 18th
7 pm
Oxford University Japan Society
Oriel College, Oxford
Illustrated lecture on The Last Concubine: Secrets of the Women’s Palace

Free for members, £1.50 for non-members

Watch this space!

The Last Concubine has been published in Portuguese by Dom Quixote under the title A Última Concubina.

Thursday July 10th
6 pm
Chichester Festivities 2008
Old Kitchen, Bishop’s Palace, Chichester
www.chifest.org.uk
Illustrated lecture on The Last Concubine: Secrets of the Women’s Palace

Wednesday 16th July
11.30am
Ways with Words 2008
Barn Theatre, Dartington Hall, Devon
www.wayswithwords.co.uk
Illustrated lecture on The Last Concubine: Secrets of the Women’s Palace

Monday October 6th
7 pm
Borders, York
Illustrated lecture on The Last Concubine: Secrets of the Women’s Palace
In collaboration with York Japan Day, October 5th/6th

Watch this space!

May 21st - May 23rd
Madrid tour for La Ultima Concubina (the Spanish edition of The Last Concubine).

May 22nd
7 pm
Casa Asia Madrid, Auditorio Tagore, Palacio Miraflores, Carrera de San Jeronimo,
15.28014, Madrid
entry free
La Ultima Concubina - illustrated lecture

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Saturday June 7th
3 - 4.30 pm
College of Art,
Nihon University
Tokyo, Japan
Conference on Dance and Japonisme: From Sadayakko to Pina Bausch.
www.orc-nana.jp
tel +81 3 5995 8099/ info@orc-nana.jp
Illustrated talk on Madamu Sadayakko

Friday June 13th
6.30 pm
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan,
Yurakucho Denki North Building 20F
Yurakucho 1-7-1, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-0006, Japan
tel +81-3-3211-3161
Illustrated lecture on The Last Concubine: Secrets of the Women’s Palace

Thursday July 10th
6 pm
Chichester Festivities
Illustrated lecture on The Last Concubine: Secrets of the Women’s Palace

Wednesday 16th July
11.30am
Dartington Ways with Words Festival, Devon
www.wayswithwords.co.uk
Illustrated lecture on The Last Concubine: Secrets of the Women’s Palace

Watch this space!