Wild Fire

Award-winning journalist and author Victoria Summerley will be talking about her latest book, The Secret Gardeners – a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic – which offers an exclusive glimpse over the...

Set in Iceland and Algiers in the 17th century the debut novel by Sally Magnusson re-imagines the true story of a pirate raid on one of the tiny Westman...

No one is better placed to write an of-the-moment satirical thriller than Stanley Johnson, former MEP, a passionate environmentalist and an author with a clutch of thrillers under his...

Algy Cluff OBE,  will be talking about, and from, his most recent book, Unsung Heroes….and a Few Villains, in which he brings to life an array of characters whom he has...

The first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister, Caroline Slocock was at Margaret Thatcher’s side for the final eighteen months of her premiership. A left-wing feminist,...

Ever wondered what goes on behind the closed doors and padded cells in a publisher’s headquarters? Unicorn Publishing Group’s Chairman Lord Strathcarron takes you inside the sanctum. Told alphabetically as a...

As well as being the most famous woman in the world, Elizabeth II is also one of the most respected world leaders of our age. It’s not just about...

The Deadly Trade is a comprehensive account of the history of submarine warfare by the acclaimed naval writer Iain Ballantyne. Considered ineffectual and originally derided and loathed in equal...

Art for the Workers explores the mythology and reality of proletarian art from the first school for Russian workers on the island of Capri to post-revolutionary Petrograd. Specifically, this talk will be...

Tom Cunliffe’s book In the Wake of Heroes is a celebration of the best in nautical literature. In the talk he traces something of his own genesis as a...

Emily Wilding Davison was the most famous suffragette to die in the battle for women’s rights after she rushed onto the Epsom racecourse in 1913 and collided with the...

They say the first rule of politics is never to resign. But in recent decades Britain’s politicians have all too often failed – or refused – to cling on....

Untangling and making sense of the issues of the day, this year’s political panel includes maverick Labour former MP Austin Mitchell, the Conservative MP the Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell,...