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Events
Tracy Borman - Penshurst Festival 2021
South East
1st Oct 2021 6:30 pm
Tracy will take part in an 'in conversation'-style event at the launch evening for the Penshurst Festival, to be held in the Baron's Hall at this spectacular historic house.
An Evening with Aldo Kane, Edinburgh
Scotland
1st Oct 2021 7:30 pm
Trained Royal Marines Sniper, world record breaker and extreme TV adventurer, Aldo Kane, is known for his ability to navigate and lead through challenging and pressured environments. With a penchant for the world's most dangerous, extreme and remote locations, he has compiled his most awe-inspiring tales in his much-anticipated debut book, Lessons From The Edge.…
Marina Wheeler - Henley Literary Festival 2021
Christ Church
6th Oct 2021 12:00 pm
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab is Marina's family memoir, recounting the story of her mother Dip Singh's experience living through Partition, weaving a story of loss and new beginnings, personal and political freedom into the broad history of the region. A barrister specialising in public law, human rights and mental health,…
Marina Wheeler - Seven Oaks Literary Festival 2021
South East
7th Oct 2021 7:30 pm
Marina Wheeler's charming family memoir tells how her own Anglo-Indian mother's story of loss and new beginnings reflected the broader and often harrowing history of partition. As British India descended into chaos, like so many others she had to flee her home, never to return. Giving a private face to public life, this gripping, warm…
Marina Wheeler - Cheltenham Literature Festival 2021
South West
8th Oct 2021 5:45 pm
The division of British India in 1947 - creating the nation states of India and Pakistan - led to terrifying outbreaks of sectarian violence and caused the greatest mass movement of humanity in history, as millions of people found themselves on the 'wrong' side of the borders. Ahead of the 75th anniversary of India's independence,…
Marina Wheeler - Cuckfield Book Festival 2021
South East
10th Oct 2021 4:00 pm
The Lost Homestead is a story about loss and new beginnings, personal and political freedom; about coming to terms with the past, and about the stories we choose to tell about ourselves. Its central event is the Partition of British India in 1947, when Marina's mother Dip and her Sikh family were forced to flee…
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Cheltenham Literature Festival 2021 - Irving Finkel
South West
15th Oct 2021 6:15 pm
Ghosts - the spirits of the dead - have walked by our side since time immemorial and evidence of our ongoing fascination with them is clear in our books, television and film to this day. Join us as author Irving Finkel (The First Ghosts) explores ghosts from a standpoint quite different to that of most…
Joanna Lumley at Henley Literary Festival
Christ Church/ Henley
28th Oct 2021 6:30 pm
Who better to celebrate the record-breaking reign of the Queen than another national treasure, keen royalist Joanna? A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of the One and Only Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee, is a collection of special writings and illuminating insights marking the monarch's unprecedented seven-decade reign, covering a period of…
Jenn Ashworth and Richard Smyth in Conversation - York St John University
Yorkshire
28th Oct 2021 6:30 pm
Jenn Ashworth will be reading from and talking about her new novel Ghosted.
Dr Irving Finkel - Borders Book Festival 2021
Scotland
2nd Nov 2021 6:30 pm
Curator at the British Museum, Dr Irving Finkel has recognised that a belief in ghosts is an ancient legacy and he has embarked on a fascinating hunt for its origins. Hidden, hovering out of the sight of other historians, the ghosts of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians are brought out of the darkness in this…
Crown & Sceptre at Waterstones Canterbury
South East
9th Nov 2021 6:30 pm
Apart from being Chief Curator of the Royal Palaces, Tracy is a TV regular and a witty, engaging writer She has analysed the strange and beautiful phenomenon of our love affair with coronetted heroes and heroines, fumblers and fools, as fallible as any of us.
An Evening with Lady Glenconner in London 2021
LONDON
9th Nov 2021 7:30 pm
Lady Anne Glenconner?has spent her life as a friend of the royal family. Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation and Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret, her extraordinary memoir Lady In Waiting offered a unique and unparalleled account of major events in royal history. Now, join Lady Glenconner live as she celebrates the publication…
THE QUEEN AND US: A RIGHT ROYAL EVENING WITH JOANNA LUMLEY AND GYLES BRANDRETH
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
23rd Nov 2021 7:30 pm
You are invited to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 23 November when national treasure Joanna Lumley joins her friend of fifty years, Gyles Brandreth, for an evening of conversation, reminiscence, gossip and laughter - it should be absolutely fabulous. Joanna is celebrating her new book about The Queen - A Queen For All Seasons…
Cumberland Conversations 2021 - Lady Isabella Naylor-Leyland
SOUTH EAST
24th Nov 2021 6:00 pm
Join us for this Cumberland Conversation on our wartime history, with special guest Lady (Isabella) Naylor-Leyland talking about The Windsor Diaries, ahead of our 75th anniversary in 2022. Isabella is the niece of Alathea FitzAlan Howard, who resided at Cumberland Lodge with her uncle Lord FitzAlan during the Second World War and became close friends…