The Dark Angel

Paul Heiney set sail for Cape Horn, one of the bleakest and most dangerous places on earth. He was to experience the changing moods of the Atlantic Ocean, the...

As the western world struggles to cope with the influx of immigrants fleeing tyranny and war, The Making of an Immigration Judge cuts through the hysteria of the headlines...

A potted history of Hardy’s and the lead up to successful RHS Chelsea Flower Show medals,  how we ended up doing a RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden which then...

Cancelled All tickets will be refunded in due course. Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where narrative and perception is as potent...

Leading literary agent Caroline Sheldon and top social media publishing publicist Emma Oulton will take you inside the modern publishing industry.  Caroline will offer her top ten tips for...

David Mearns has discovered some of the world’s most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama’s 16th...

The number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more)...

The smart-machines revolution is re-shaping our lives and our societies. Sir Nigel Shadbolt (one of Britain’s leading authorities on artificial intelligence) dispels terror, confusion, and misconception. We are not...

Lesley Blanch MBE was born in London in 1904. She spent the greater part of her life travelling to Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East. A bold and...

Happy as Harry is a guide to human happiness as narrated by a wise and always happy dog called Harry. A lighthearted book that deals with serious matters, author...

In this talk, inspired by her debut novel, Tracy will take us into the turbulent world of the early Stuart court, where King James I waged a war on...

Fragile Lives is an incredible and award winning memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons. In his 35 year career, Professor Stephen Westaby took chances and...

Event cancelled. From Blenheim to Chartwell is a biography of Winston Churchill through the houses he lived in and the gardens he made. It culminates with the full story...

In her Forgotten Women series of books, Zing Tsjeng re-discovers the lost histories of influential women who have surmounted obstacles of life and times to shape the course of...

EVENT CANCELLED Eleven days after the bloody death of the Queen, Jane Seymour is dressing for her wedding to Henry VIII. She knows she must bear a son –...

War Stories is a fascinating account of ordinary men and women swept up in the turbulence of war. These are their stories–many untold until now–of 28 individuals and three...

On one of the strangest pre-university gap years you’ve ever heard of, Leif Bersweden spent the summer of 2013 hunting down all 52 species of wild orchid native to...

Trouble with pests? Looking for the perfect plant for that tricky location? Join our knowledgeable panel, with well known gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh, multi gold medal winners plantsmen Rosy...

Johnny talks about his journey from a troubled childhood, through to his reasons for joining the Army, finding his feet in the military and then finding his way from...

Vesna Goldsworthy will talk about and read from Monsieur Ka, recently named one of the Times best new novels for 2018. The Guardian described this “deft continuation of Anna...

Dominic Minghella leads us on a journey from the initial concept to the final production of a successful TV series with amusing behind the scenes anecdotes and stories. Amongst...

Towards the end of the 19th century and the first few years of the 20th Britain, the citadel of power, privilege and breeding was breached. The incomers were a...

Angela Levin had the privilege of following Prince Harry on his royal duties for a year, at the end of which she had private and exclusive conversations with him...

This inventive historical novel gives a gripping account of real Cold War espionage from a new perspective. An unassuming Communist and UN diplomat turned Cold War spy stands on...

Austin Mitchell is a political maverick. For 38 years he was a fly in the parliamentary ointment, a recurring itch on the body politic. A maverick may annoy the...

As a teenager Vanessa Nicolson plays a game with her father: they take turns to ask a question and the other must answer truthfully. One day Vanessa asks: ‘Apart...

Come join Vybarr Cregan-Reid for a whistle stop tour of the modern body looking at how the environment we have made is changing us all, inside and out. From the...

We all define ourselves by our profession. But what if our job was demeaning, poorly paid, and tedious? Cracking open Britain’s divisions journalist James Bloodworth spent six months living...

Oxford in the ’60s was one thing: rock ‘n’ roll another. Playing the lead role in Hair!, creating (and losing) Rock Bottom, the first ever all-girl rock band, ought to...