On Canaan’s Side has just been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. As Lilly Bere mourns the loss of her beloved grandson Bill she thinks back to her forced evacuation from Barry’s home town of Dublin to the dangerous, hope-filled world of America at the end of the First World War. As she struggles to [...]
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Frances Wilson
Tuesday 11th October 2011 – 7.30pm
Stories of the Titanic continue to enthrall people and this riveting story is no exception. Featuring never-before-seen love letters from Ismay to a first-class passenger, it will leave all other Titanic books in its wake.
Claire Tomalin
Friday 7th October 2011 – 7.00pm
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonically hard-working journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist – the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Lady [...]
Lunch with Michel Roux
Friday 7th October 2011 – 1.15pm
This event is sold out. Desserts have been a lifelong passion for Michel Roux and he is widely regarded as an authority on them. Here he takes a fresh new look at the whole subject, presenting updated great classics and mouthwatering contemporary recipes, inspired by his travels and designed to suit today’s fresher, lighter palate. [...]
Lunch with Michel Roux
Wednesday 5th October 2011 – 1.15pm
Desserts have been a lifelong passion for Michel Roux and he is widely regarded as an authority on them. Here he takes a fresh new look at the whole subject, presenting updated great classics and mouthwatering contemporary recipes, inspired by his travels and designed to suit today’s fresher, lighter palate. Michel Roux has held three [...]
Roger Cook
Tuesday 4th October 2011 – 8.00pm
BAFTA award-winning investigative journalist Roger Cook joins us to launch the latest edition of his entertaining memoir, More Dangerous Ground. Throughout its long run, his ground-breaking programme on ITV, The Cook Report, was by far the most-watched current affairs programme on British TV, and Roger was widely recognised for his physical and journalistic courage. He will be [...]
Bernard Cornwell
Monday 26th September 2011 – 7.30pm
The master of historical fiction presents the iconic story of King Alfred and the making of a nation. As the ninth century wanes, England appears about to be plunged into chaos once more. For the Viking-raised but Saxon-born warrior, Uhtred, whose life seems to shadow the making of England, this presents him with difficult choices. [...]
Alistair Darling
Wednesday 21st September 2011 – 7.30pm
In the summer of late 2007, shares of Northern Rock went into free-fall causing a run on the bank – the first since the Great Depression. Northern Rock was only the first: in the ensuing months, Alistair Darling stood firm in the eye of this perfect storm – all over the world financial institutions thought [...]
Sir Roy Strong
Tuesday 20th September 2011 – 7.30pm
Roy Strong’s Visions of England asks ‘What does it mean to be English?’ For centuries, Englishness was synonymous with Britishness, informed first by the political dominance of the English monarchs over the British Isles, and later by the island’s might and imperial expansion. But along that tradition, reaching back to medieval times, there has also [...]
Andy McNab
Monday 19th September 2011 – 8.00pm
SAS Bravo Two Zero hero and bestselling thriller writer Andy McNab will be here to talk about his life, the current military situation in Afghanistan and his latest Nick Stone thriller, Dead Centre. Photography is not permitted at this event.