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 A Fatal Love Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain. A Fatal Love is the gripping story of her life, imagined by Louisa Treger, as Ruth Ellis is awaiting trial for the murder of her lover. Louisa Treger has […]
Anne Brusatte with Steve Brusatte My Grandparents were Dinosaurs Upstairs at Bookfest 4-9 years Anne and Steve Brusatte know everything there is to know about dinosaurs. Travel through time with them and uncover the unlikely truth of how of the humble hen is related to the terrifying T-Rex in this fantastic read-aloud picture book. Anne’s […]
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 From the rural plains of Canada to 1950s Liverpool and Yorkshire, Love Lane is a moving portrayal of escape and entrapment, and a powerful exploration of what home and family can really be. One of our most highly regarded novelists, Patrick will be in […]