C.S. Lewis is best known as the writer of children’s books and particularly as the author of the Narnia Chronicles. However, he was already a household name here in Britain and in the United States of America at least a decade before ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’, the first of the Narnia Chronicles, was published in 1950. How? Visit ‘Jack’ Lewis in his study at The Kilns where he personally will reveal all, together with readings from ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’, ‘The Screwtape Letters’ and his poetry. As well as accounting for his earlier fame, he will tell you about his childhood, his career as an Oxford University lecturer, his friendship with JRR Tolkein, his journey to Christianity and his meeting in later life with a Jewish Communist Christian American lady who hailed from New York.

After early retirement in 2010, following a career spent in IT and Quality Assurance, Jonathan took up a secondary career as a public speaker/performer. He has now delivered well over one thousand talks/performances, mainly on literary topics but also on his previous role as the Farnham Town Crier. His talks cover the works of Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Emily Bronte, Laurie Lee, Stanley Holloway, Vera Brittain, Edward Thomas, Dylan Thomas and WW1 Poetry & Remembrance. For the National Trust, he has delivered several lunch/lectures at Bateman’s, Kipling’s former home in East Sussex, and delivered monthly war poetry readings at the Sandham Memorial Chapel near Newbury.

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