Peter Fiennes En Route Acclaimed travel writer Peter Fiennes sets out to explore France’s sense of its own people, place and identity through some of its greatest writers and artists. Travelling in a loop from Le Havre to Paris, Fiennes follows the threads of history and wonders what’s next for this sublime, mysterious and sometimes […]
Alwyn Turner A Shellshocked Nation Britain Between the Wars with Juliet Nicolson Upstairs at Bookfest After the calamity of the Great War, Britain longed for escapist fun. It was easier to spend a day at the seaside than to worry about mass unemployment, political scandals or military manoeuvres in Europe. Combining cultural, social and political […]
Louisa Treger A Fatal Love Lottie Moggach Mrs Pearcey with Jo Durrant Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain. In A Fatal Love, Louisa Treger reimagines her story as she awaits trial for murdering her lover. Alongside Ruth is Kitty Carrington, assistant to her defence lawyer, determined to secure a fair trial […]
Anne Brusatte with Steve Brusatte My Grandparents were Dinosaurs Upstairs at Bookfest 4-9 years Meet one plucky chicken and discover her roarsome secret: she’s descended from dinosaurs... and no fox is going to make a meal out of her! Steve and Anne know everything there is to know about dinosaurs. Travel through time with them […]
Jane Rogoyska Paris in the Shadow of War with Gavin Mortimer In the 1930s, the Hotel Lutetia on Paris’s Left Bank hosted exiled Germans. But when war broke out, it became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service. In 1945, It was requisitioned as a reception centre for deportees returning from concentration camps. Hotel […]
THE BIG BOOK GROUP Patrick Gale Love Lane with Tiffany Murray Love Lane is a brilliant new standalone novel featuring characters from Patrick’s Costa-shortlisted novel A Place Called Winter. 1950s Northern England. Three generations of men, two of women. When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane is brutally obliged to sell up and sail home to an […]