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© Julian Anderson Craig Brown, winner of the 2020 WHAT TO EXPECT THIS YEAR... Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Oh to be part of an audience again, listening to talented and interesting writers, delighting us Issue 42 with their knowledge, intellect and humour. To sit with like minds, or unlike minds, laughing, crying or just being absorbed as the conversation winds it way into other worlds. We are emerging from this pandemic desperate for culture, but also, after a year of caution, still wanting to be careful. This year’s Henley Literary Festival addresses both those emotions. The programme is rich in its variety and quality, but we have also made sure it’s a safe environment. For the first time in our 15 year history we are building a 500 seater marquee as well as our two bigger venues – Christ Church and the Town Hall - so that distancing, if required, can be maintained. I have never been more proud of the tiny, covid-depleted-team who have worked so hard to build such a magnificent awe-inspring nine-day programme under such difficult circumstances. Thank you Harriet, Lou, and Kallie for your magnificence against the odds, and thanks to all our sponsors, particularly Baillie Gifford, for staying with us through the rough times and ensuring we are not only still here, but very much alive and kicking. Now we ask you, our loyal supportive audience, to come, join us. SUE RYAN, FESTIVAL FOUNDER Our free and award-winning investment trust magazine brings you writing on the ideas that shape our world. Read thought-provoking articles from our investment managers, academics and global thinkers, alongside exclusive interviews with distinguished authors. For more information, you can access the current issue from the festival website. WIN subscribe to Trust for your chance to win a £150 book voucher. BOOK TICKETS BY PHONE BOOK ONLINE AT 01491 575 948 www.henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk 10am-4pm Monday to Thursday bailliegifford.com/henley General booking opens Monday 19 July, with Friends of the Festival booking from Monday 12 July. E-Tickets will be emailed directly after purchase and can be printed at home or shown on your phone.
FESTIVAL INFORMATION FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS BOOKING TICKETS COVID PROTOCOL BELL BOOKSHOP VENUE INFORMATION • All venues are within a 15 minute walk ADVANCED BOOKING • We will be adhering to all current • Local and independent The Bell Bookshop from each other. • Priority booking for Friends of the Festival government guidelines to ensure a safe will be at every event selling the authors’ • There is no parking at any of our venues. opens on Monday 12th July and tickets go on environment for all. Full details regarding books (see map for location on p87). If you are driving to Henley, please allow general sale on Monday 19th July. To become the measures we will take, can be found at • Their shop on Bell Street will also stock plenty of time to find a parking space. a Friend, please visit our website. henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk our Festival speakers’ books and the latest Please use one of the public car parks bestsellers. around Henley. • Book online at henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk • As we go to print (July), government • For venues and parking see map p87. at anytime or by phone on 01491 575948 guidance advises all Festival attendees will between 10am – 4pm, Monday to Thursday. be required to wear face masks (unless exempt). We will be going on sale with BOOKING DURING THE FESTIVAL socially distanced seating. IMPORTANT INFORMATION • Book online at henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk • If government advise, one-way systems and social distancing measures and hand TICKET INFORMATION TERMS AND CONDITIONS • Book in-person at HLF HQ, Kings Arms • We are only issuing E-Tickets this year. For full ticket terms and conditions, please sanitiser stations will be in place at all Barn, Kings Road, Henley-on-Thames, E-Tickets will be emailed directly after visit henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk/tc Festival venues. RG9 2DG, between 9am – 7pm from Sat 2 purchase and can be printed at home or October - Sun 10 October. shown on your phone. • A booking fee of £2 will be applied per order – whether made online, by phone or • Babes in arms (under 2) do not require a in person at HLF HQ (see map p87). ticket unless the event is aimed at this age • Tickets are non-refundable unless the VIRTUAL & LIVESTREAMING group. event in question has been cancelled. We reserve the right to cancel or alter events Due to the success of the online Festival in 2020, all events being held in the Marquee will • Waiting lists will be available for all sold- due to unforeseen circumstances. Tickets not only be in Henley for an in-person audience, but can also be streamed to your sitting out events. If any tickets are released or can be exchanged for other tickets of equal room! exchanged, the waiting list will be notified by or greater value until 2nd September. email and tickets can be purchased on a first- • During the Festival, any changes to the Keep an eye out for the video camera logo next to events, which indicates you can buy a come-first-served basis. programme will be emailed to attendees, livestream ticket to watch online... posted on the website and social media channels. Every Monday in September we have a virtual programme of authors who can not be in Henley during the Festival so will be joining us online (see page 6 - 7 for event details). HOW WILL ONLINE TICKETS WORK? • We’re using the world-leading platform for online events Crowdcast; there’s nothing to download - you’ll be sent an email with the link to watch on the day. • Events will work on phones & tablets but are best watched on a computer or laptop - wherever you have the strongest internet connection. • Our tech team will work with all authors & interviewers to ensure internet, sound and vision is optimised for the best possible viewing experience. • Should your internet fail you or something prevent you watching live, the event will remain available to view for another 24 hours using the link sent to you.
SEPTEMBER VIRTUAL EVENTS SEPTEMBER VIRTUAL EVENTS JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL CECELIA AHERN BRIT BENNETT & CURTIS SITTENFELD MICHAEL HOLDING WOODSTON: MY FAMILY FARM INTERVIEWED BY JO FINNEY INTERVIEWED BY DANIEL HAHN INTERVIEWED BY KATHERINE GRAINGER Mon 6 Sept · 6.30pm · Virtual · £5 Mon 6 Sept · 8pm · Virtual · £5 Mon 20 Sept · 6.30pm · Virtual · £5 Mon 20 Sept · 8pm · Virtual · £5 Author of Sunday Times bestsellers The Cecelia has sold more than 25 million copies Hear from two of America’s bestselling and In July last year during a rain delay in a Running and The Wood, John Lewis-Stempel of her books worldwide, with PS I Love most acclaimed literary novelists. Women’s Test, West Indies cricket legend turned is the only person to have won the You and Love, Rosie being made into major Prize shortlisted and British Book Awards commentator Michael spoke out emotionally Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing twice. films, and now joins us live from Ireland to Fiction Book of the Year winner, Brit Bennett about the racism he had suffered, and had In his latest book Woodston: The Biography discuss her writing career and latest novel discusses the great success of her Sunday seen all around him throughout his life. His of an English Farm, John tells the story of Freckles. Following Allegra Bell as she leaves Times and New York bestselling novel The words were so powerful he received calls his family’s farm for the first time. With his her eccentric father and unconventional Vanishing Half. Sharing the vir tual stage, from famous spor ts stars around the world combined skills of farmer and historian, childhood behind for a bold new life in the American Wife and Prep author Cur tis offering to help spread the message. In Why John digs deep into written records, the city, it is an unforgettable story of human Sittenfeld will discuss her latest novel We Kneel, How We Rise, he shares his story memories of relatives and the landscape connection, friendship and growing into your Rodham which considers how things might together with those of some of the most itself to celebrate the farmland his family own skin. have turned out if Hillary Rodham had iconic athletes in the world, including Usain have been bound to for millennia. This event is sponsored by Good Housekeeping. turned down Bill Clinton. Bolt, Thierry Henry and Naomi Osaka. LIA MIDDLETON FARIDAH ABIKE-IYIMIDE & AMY McCULLOCH JODIE CHAPMAN INTERVIEWED BY ASHLEY AUDRAIN INTERVIEWED BY DANIEL HAHN & GIOVANNA FLETCHER Mon 13 Sept · 6.30pm · Virtual · £5 Mon 27 Sept · 6.30pm · £5 Mon 27 Sept · 8pm · Virtual · £5 Inspired by her own experience of post- Instant New York Times and IndieBound Join photographer-turned-writer Jodie natal anxiety and mental health struggles bestselling author of Ace of Spades, Faridah Chapman, who will be in conversation with as a new mother, Buckinghamshire-based is also an avid tea drinker, collector of I’m a Celebrity winner and Happy Mum, criminal law barrister Lia presents her first strange mugs and recent graduate from a Happy Baby author and podcaster Giovanna novel When They Find Her. Lia will be in university in the Scottish Highlands. She Fletcher. Described as ‘a modern day conversation with Ashley Audrain, author will discuss writing Young Adult fiction and Atonement meets David Nicholls’ by Emma of the hugely successful The Push (who held becoming a bestselling author with Amy Gannon, Jodie’s debut novel Another Life is her first author event as par t of our vir tual McCulloch - co-author of the Young Adult about first loves, and how all relationships festival last year). Hear from two of the most bestselling novel The Magpie Society: One for between families, between friends or exciting upcoming thriller writers as they Sorrow - the first book in the modern gothic between lovers - deepen and change over discuss writing suspenseful, conversation- thriller series co-written with Zoella. the years. A fun evening ahead with two provoking and fast-paced books. This is a family event from our Children’s Programme fantastic novelists and incredible women. (for ages 0-18), for full detail see p. 57 6 7
SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER GYLES BRANDRETH *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 TALKING TO YOUR TEENAGE SELF EVANNA LYNCH, ANNIE RIDOUT & OTEGHA UWAGBA 10am · Baillie Gifford Marquee £25 inc. book / £35 for 2 tickets, 1 book 2pm · Christ Church · £12 Truly a man of many talents: broadcaster, What would you tell the younger you? In actor, politician, theatre producer, journalist The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Glory and mug-maker. Having previously written and Tragedy of Growing Up, Evanna Lynch, biographies of Prince Philip and John (Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films) Gielgud, Odd Boy Out is his own wonderfully details her recovery from anorexia. Sunday revealing autobiography full of humour, Times bestseller Otegha Uwagba mixes family, growing up in post-war London and memoir and cultural commentary in We meeting presidents and princes. An hour of Need to Talk About Money and The Freelance delight awaits. Mum author Annie Ridout weaves personal This event is sponsored by THP Solicitors. experience with psychologists’ exper tise to *Ticket price includes the book explore why shyness affects some more than Odd Boy Out (RRP £20) which will be given to you at the event others. In conversation with Emma Louise Boynton. DR LUCY POLLOCK & RACHEL CLARKE SEBASTIAN FAULKS MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS SIMON MAYO & KIRAN MILLWOOD IN CONVERSATION WITH SOPHIE VAN BRUGEN *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 DR ALEX GEORGE & DR EMMA HEPBURN HARGRAVE 10am · Christ Church · £12 12pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee 4pm · Christ Church · £12 4pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 £25 inc. book / £35 for 2 tickets, 1 book With medical matters on our minds more Here two experts come together to Two highly respected authors with The bestselling author of Birdsong makes a than ever, hear from two highly experienced discuss the impor tance of mental health experience of writing for both younger welcome return to Henley with the much- doctors about their acclaimed books. with broadcaster Leah Boleto. Clinical readers and, now, adults. Radio icon Simon anticipated Snow Country. His latest novel Palliative care specialist Rachel follows her psychologist Emma became popular on has penned his first contemporary thriller tells the intensely personal story of Lena bestselling Dear Life with Breathtaking: Inside Instagram as @thepsychologymum and Knife Edge where after the murder of her and Anton during the 1930’s Vienna of Freud the NHS in a Time of Pandemic. Lucy has now A Toolkit for Modern Life seeks to colleagues, journalist Famie sets out to and Klimt. With Europe precariously placed been a geriatrician for over two decades and help you feel more confident and in tune uncover just what they were investigating. between two wars, Faulks returns to Schloss The Book About Getting Older (for people who with yourself. A&E doctor Alex has gone The Girl of Ink & Stars author Kiran presents Seeblick, the setting of his acclaimed Human don’t want to talk about it) is her accessible, from Love Island contestant to government The Mercies, which was inspired by the Vardo Traces. serious and funny guide through essential ambassador for youth mental health, and storm on the remote Norwegian island This event is sponsored by Phyllis Court. conversations about ageing. In conversation Live Well Every Day addresses the modern and the 1621 witch trials - a story about with the BBC’s Sophie Van Brugen. *Ticket price includes the book health challenges of today’s world. how suspicion can twist its way through a Snow Countr y (RRP £20) which will This event is sponsored by Hotel Du Vin. be given to you at the event This event is sponsored by H&S. community. *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 8 9
SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER CANDICE BRATHWAITE & NIKESH SHUKLA 6.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £12 WE ARE DELIGHTED After coming to international attention on Instagram, Candice is now a familiar face on TV and Grazia contributing editor. She follows bestseller I Am Not Your Baby Mother TO SUPPORT with Sista Sister essays on everything she wishes someone would have told her, as a young Black girl growing up. Novelist, YA THE FESTIVAL author and editor of The Good Immigrant, Nikesh discusses bigotry, parenting, body th ear image and more in Brown Baby: A Memoir for an 11 y of Race, Family and Home. They will be in conversation with Leah Boleto. *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 AUTHOR ALIASES ELIZABETH DAY JAMAL MAHJOUB & JANE THYNNE IN CONVERSATION WITH SARA COLLINS 6.30pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 8.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 Four names, but just two writers? Welcome We’re delighted to welcome Elizabeth to the world of pseudonyms. Jamal Mahjoub Day, host of the How To Fail podcast and writes crime fiction as Parker Bilal, as well the bestselling book of the same name to as non-fiction, shor t stories and novels Henley. The Mail on Sunday columnist and under his own name. His latest, The Fugitives, author of Richard and Judy pick The Party takes us from Sudan to the US. Jane Thynne brings her highly anticipated latest novel returns to the Festival with Widowland, her Magpie, a psychological thriller which centres first novel under the nom de plume of C.J. on themes of motherhood, power, jealousy Carey, set in an alternative history under and the dramatic effect of a lodger in a Our wine team will be appearing at some events, King Edward and an alliance with Germany. couple’s home. with bottle in hand, to tempt you to try Laithwaites In conversation with Cesca Major. *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 laithwaites.co.uk 11
SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER FRANK GARDNER CELIA WALDEN & BOOK CLUB SUNDAY *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 GILLIAN MCALLISTER SARA JAFARI, MILES JUPP & CATHY RENTZENBRINK 10am · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 10am · Laithwaites Stage · £10 2pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £12 The BBC’s Security Correspondent returns What would you do? That’s what two of *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 to the Festival to discuss his career on 2021’s tensest and twistiest thrillers ask – Three successful writers with their first screen and on the page. From an against- and now the writers behind them join us at novels. The Last Act of Love author Cathy the-odds recovery from his ambush Henley. Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding Rentzenbrink looks at the marriage of by gunmen while he was Middle East called Telegraph columnist Celia’s workplace Juliet and Liam in Everyone Is Still Alive. Correspondent, journalism for the Telegraph, mystery Payday “impossible to put down”, Comedian and Radio 4 star Miles Jupp Economist and Sunday Times and more while family matters are at the heart of returns to Henley with History, recounting recently as a No.1 bestselling novelist. Taking That Night. The novel that Clare Mackintosh the woes of a private school teacher. TOKEN on the all-too-real horrors of bio-terrorism, calls a ‘tautly plotted and beautifully written Magazine editor Sara Jafari tells the coming- Outbreak is the latest in his series of MI6 look at siblings and secrets’- from How of-age stories of a London graduate and thrillers that Frederick Forsyth describes as To Disappear & Everything But The Truth her mother decades before in Iran in The “taut, tense, accurate”. bestseller Gillian. In conversation with The Mismatch. This event is sponsored by Phyllis Court. Home Page co-founder Jessica Jonzen. This event is sponsored by THP Solicitors. KATE MOSSE *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 ROB BIDDULPH *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 12pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 Kate returns to Henley to take us to 16th 4pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £6 century Europe. Her latest historical epic Rob Biddulph helped many of us through The City of Tears is the highly anticipated lockdown with his brilliant #DrawWithRob follow-up to her Sunday Times number one videos. Now he returns to Henley for an bestseller The Burning Chambers, which she event perfect for children and their grown- discussed at a sold-out Festival event in ups. From creating picture books like 2018. Founding director of the Women’s Dinosaur Juniors and Odd Dog Out to his Prize for Fiction, her work has gained her first novel for children Peanut Jones and the international fame, being published across Illustrated City, don’t miss a draw-a-long with more than 40 countries, and translated the World Book Day illustrator. into 38 different languages, including the This event is sponsored by Shiplake College. multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy. This event is sponsored by Phyllis Court. This is a family event from our Children’s Programme (for ages 0-18), for full detail see p57. 12 13
SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER JAMES O’BRIEN DAZZLING DEBUTS RUBY WAX INTERVIEWED BY ALEX HOLMES SALENA GODDEN, NAOMI ISHIGURO & NEEMA SHAH *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 4pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 6.30pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 8.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee £20 inc. book James has over a million listeners each week Join the authors of three of 2021’s most In recent years the comedian and for his LBC radio show and a Parliamentary feted first novels. Blending poetry and prose, broadcaster has added No.1 bestseller and Book Award for his Sunday Times bestselling Salena reveals a very different take from the a Masters from Oxford to her illustrious debut How to Be Right. Now in How Not scythe-wielding figure of lore in Mrs Death CV. She joins us for the first time with A to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind Misses Death. Naomi’s Common Ground is Mindfulness Guide for Survival, a typically frank he lays open his views on everything from a bittersweet coming-of-age story as Stan and funny look at dealing with the human racial prejudice to emotional vulnerability, and Charlie meet as boys and then adults. roller coaster that is day-to-day life. from fat-shaming to tattoos and reveals Neema was inspired by her grandmother’s This event is sponsored by THP Solicitors. the real reasons he holds them. Famed for stories of being told to leave Uganda by his listener calls and frank interviews with the brutal Idi Amin in the 1970s; her Kololo politicians of all stripes, hear from one of the Hill follows a family from East Africa to *Ticket price includes the book A Mindfulness Guide for Sur vival (RRP UK’s leading broadcasters. Britain. They will be interviewed by Good £14.99 which will be given to you Housekeeping’s Books Editor Jo Finney. at the event ED MILIBAND PODCAST TO PUBLISHING *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 ALEX HOLMES, FRANCESCA SPECTER & CLEMMIE TELFORD 6.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 8.30pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 The former Labour leader, now Shadow As podcasting inspires more and more Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and books, three top hosts discuss their shows, Industrial Strategy, looks to the future in books, and lives. In Alonement journalist Go Big: How to Fix Our World. Inspired by Francesca Specter seeks to help us get his award-winning Reasons to be Cheerful, more out of alone time. British Book he argues that the solution to many of the Awards’s Best Podcast winner Alex Holmes world’s problems – from inequality and the looks at modern masculinity in Time to climate crisis to the challenges of housing Talk: How Men Think About Love, Belonging and demographic change – are already out and Connection. And in But Why?, Honestly there. The MP for Doncaster Nor th joins us podcaster Clemmie Telford delves into those the week after the Labour conference. questions that children tend to throw at you when they’re avoiding bedtime. They will be interviewed by Don’t Buy Her Flowers founder Steph Douglas. 14 15
£25 MILLION MONDAY 4 OCTOBER RICHARD FORTEY DAVID WHITEHOUSE INTERVIEWED BY JON RYAN SPACE 2069 raised to help those 10am · Laithwaites Stage · £10 An outstanding palaeontologist and natural 12pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 Journey in time and space with the former effected by Covid-19 historian, Richard’s fascinating memoir A BBC science editor. David, who has a Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist takes doctorate in Astrophysics from Jodrell Bank us on a journey from botany and birds to and made national headlines with his fossils, and fungi. A great brown trout caught Apollo 11: The Inside Story event here in Thank you to our incredible readers for helping by his father opened his world to fish, 2019. Now in Space 2069 After Apollo: Back streams, and rivers. A blue thrush’s egg took to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond he takes to provide computers for children in need and him into the world of birds. A wonderful life a timely look at what the next 50 years essential PPE equipment to the NHS charmingly recounted by a Festival favourite of space exploration have in store, from a and Henley resident. crewed mission to Mars to the first woman on the moon exploring the lunar south pole. PETER OBORNE IN CONVERSATION WITH SIMON WALTERS 12pm · Christ Church · £12 Former Daily Mail and Telegraph columnist Peter must have thought things had got as bad as they could back in 2005 when he wrote The Rise of Political Lying, on the Major and Blair eras. But he returns to the subject with The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump & The Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism, arguing that the current Prime Minister and previous US President lied again and again to secure victory. Peter will be in conversation with Daily Mail assistant editor Simon Walters. 17
MONDAY 4 OCTOBER THE FULL LENGTH DATE 4GOES MONDAY HERE OCTOBER IAIN MACGREGOR JOHN SIMPSON INTERVIEWED BY ALASTAIR STEWART IN CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL HAHN 2pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 4pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 Few cities in Europe have the turbulent The BBC’s World Affairs Editor has been modern history of Berlin. And no name repor ting from China since the Tiananmen resonates as much as the security gate Square massacre in 1989 and now for the on the border between East and West of first time is using the details of some of his the divided city, which remains to this day hair-raising experiences there in his highly as a tourist attraction. 60 years after the anticipated second novel Our Friends in construction of the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Beijing. A chance to hear from the man who Charlie, is the historical account of when the has been repor ting for the BBC for over five US confronted the USSR during the Cold decades. War. Iain will be in conversation with former This event is sponsored byTHP Solictiors. ITV News presenter Alastair Stewar t. *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 SARAH SANDS GAVIN BARWELL JENNY PACKHAM INTERVIEWED BY GILES FRASER INTERVIEWED BY STEPHEN ROBINSON IN CONVERSATION WITH LOUISE ROE 2pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 4pm · Christ Church · £12 4pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 When editor of the Radio 4’s Today As Theresa May recovered from the From wedding dresses and stores across Programme Sarah suffered from information 2017 election, negotiated her Brexit deal, the world, to bespoke outfits for Adele and overload and inability to sleep, she tried to responded to Grenfell and met with the the Duchess of Cambridge, Jenny is one of find ways to de-stress. Inspired by the ruins likes of Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn Britain’s leading designers and couturiers. In of a nearby Cistercian abbey, she began and Keir Starmer, Lord Barwell was in the her stunning memoir How to Make a Dress: to research the lives of the monks and rooms where it happened as her Chief of Adventures in the Art of Style, she explores monasticism. The Interior Silence is the result Staff. Previously Conservative Par ty Chief her creative journey and asks the questions of a pilgrimage to 10 monasteries round Operating Officer under Michael Howard that have preoccupied us for centuries: the world...and, yes, the author and former and David Cameron, the former MP for what makes the perfect dress? What do our Evening Standard editor now enjoys elusive, Croydon, and Housing Minister, reveals how clothes mean to us? And why do we dress dreamless sleep. She will be interviewed by government operates in times of crises. the way we do? In conversation with fashion former Guardian columnist and priest-in- journalist Louise Roe. charge at St. Mary’s, Newington Giles Fraser. 18 OR CALL 01491 575 948, 10AM-4PM MONDAY TO FRIDAY 19 XX
MONDAY 4 OCTOBER THE FULL LENGTH DATE 4GOES MONDAY HERE OCTOBER TOM ALLEN ANGELA GALLOP *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 INTERVIEWED BY KATHERINE GRAINGER 6.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 6.30pm · Christ Church · £12 Growing up in a 90’s working class suburban Forensic science has become one of the family as the youngest member of the Noel great modern fascinations of television and Coward Society and with a fondness for cinema. Angela has been at the forefront Victorian clothing, Tom was the eternal for over 45 years, working on hundreds outsider. Today he is one of the country’s of cases from the seemingly unsolvable to favourite comedians, selling out at the outright bizarre. In How to Solve a Crime, the Palladium and across the world, as well as professor takes readers behind the police hosting Bake Off: The Professionals and his tape and into the hear t of the crime scene, own Radio 4 series. Now the Live at the including identifying the man who stabbed Apollo and Just A Minute star reveals all in his George Harrison at his Henley home, hilarious, heart-breaking and honest memoir Friar Park. An exper t reveals all to Dame No Shame. Katherine Grainger, the most decorated This event is sponsored by THP Solicitors. female Olympian, with a Phd in Criminology. This event is sponsored by St Helen & St Katharine. MICHAEL CASHMAN JED MERCURIO ONE OF THEM & PRASANNA PUWANARAJAH 6.30pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 To some, Michael will always be Colin in 8.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 EastEnders, making history as par t of the Two of the most exciting voices in British first gay kiss on a British soap, but he has enter tainment come to Henley to discuss had many other roles: child actor in Oliver! their first graphic novel, illustrated by Coke in the West End, gay rights campaigner, Navarro. Line of Duty and Bodyguard creator MEP and life peer. In the nostalgic and Jed is a seasoned TV viewing record-breaker fearless One of Them we see every aspect as well as writing novels and producing of Michael’s life, from co-founding Stonewall Bloodlands and Vigil. Previously a doctor at with Ian McKellen to memorable encounters John Radcliffe Hospital, Prasanna has gone with David Hockney, Elton John and Joan on to write Nightwatchman for the National Collins. Theatre, star in Doctor Foster and Line of This event is sponsored by HW Fisher. Duty, as well as directing Ballywater. This event is sponsored by THP Solicitors. 20 OR CALL 01491 575 948, 10AM-4PM MONDAY TO FRIDAY 21 XX
TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER PROUD THE VAXXERS SPONSORS OF SARAH GILBERT & CATHERINE GREEN 10am · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 THE HENLEY This is something special: the inside story from two of the leading scientists behind LITERARY the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine. Oxford University colleagues, Dame Sarah whose team designed the vaccine, and Catherine FESTIVAL ADVERT5(LM) who led on the manufacturing, share the hear t-stopping moments and major milestones of making a highly safe vaccine in record time with the world watching. A unique chance to hear about one of the most epic achievements in human history, here in Henley. This event is sponsored by The Burnside Partnership. *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE INTERVIEWED BY MARK PALMER 10am · Laithwaites Stage · £10 The former Cabinet Minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, looks at the future of Britain. Lord Waldegrave believes that only by facing the future with honesty can we find a narrative to live by and craft new trusted institutions. Three Circles into One is a clear-eyed analysis of a national self-inflicted catastrophe, how it came about and where it might lead. Hear thpsolicitors.co.uk how a Britain that is going to change for ever can steer a future path. What sor t of country do we want to be? Interviewed by HENLEY OFFICE: 64 Bell Street, Henley on Thames, RG9 2BN the Daily Mail’s Mark Palmer. T: 01491 570 900 | E: henley@thpsolicitors.co.uk READING OFFICE: 9 Chalfont Court, Lower Earley, Reading, RG6 5SY T: 0118 975 6622 | E: office@thpsolicitors.co.uk 23
TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER ED BALLS MAX HASTINGS PRIZEWINNERS *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 MONIQUE ROFFEY & JAMES SCUDAMORE 12pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 2pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 2pm · Laithwaites Stage· £10 Secretary of State, Shadow Chancellor, The former Telegraph editor returns to Two prize-winning and critically acclaimed Strictly Come Dancing star…now Ed arrives Henley to bring another slice of military novelists discuss their writing and latest in Henley with Appetite, a memoir with a history alive in Operation Pedestal: The Fleet books. Described as “breathtakingly good” twist: par t-autobiography, par t-cookbook. that Battled to Malta 1942. That Spring, the by The Observer, James’ English Monsters The former MP and winner of BBC One’s Luftwaffe dropped more bombs on the deals with the experiences of a group of Celebrity Best Home Cook takes us from island than on London in the Blitz. With schoolboys at a boarding school and the eating his first meal aged three weeks - supplies desperately needed, an armada revelation in adulthood of the abuse they pureed roast beef and Yorkshire pudding of 50 British ships (loaded with food and suffered. Monique‘s Costa Book of the Year, – to being taught to cook by his mother medicines, ammunition and fuel) fought The Mermaid of Black Conch, is set in a tiny and now passing these recipes on to his its way to the island in a brutal battle, and Caribbean village, where a fisherman meets own children. Ed will be interviewed by victory ensured Malta’s survival. Aycayia, a beautiful young woman cursed by Cindy Burrowes. This event is sponsored by The jealous wives to live as a mermaid. Burnside Partnership. This event is sponsored by HW Fisher ADAM ANDRUSIER VANESSA FRAKE HAYLEY MILLS INTERVIEWED BY MARK PALMER INTERVIEWED BY GERRY FOLEY INTERVIEWED BY ANDY MILLER 12pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 12pm · Christ Church · £12 2pm · Christ Church · £12 Adam spent his childhood in pursuit of After 16 years in high-security women’s 60 years after being voted Britain’s biggest autographs, from Sinatra to Gaddafi. It was prisons, dealing with notorious inmates star, Hayley comes to Henley with her a world away from his chaotic family home including Myra Hindley and Rosemary much-anticipated memoir of her teenage in Pinner and his Holocaust-obsessed father. West, Vanessa thought she had seen it all. decade in Hollywood. Sparked by a visit to As Adam turned from collector to dealer – But then she was made governor of the Walt Disney’s restored office and archive, inspiring Zadie Smith’s novel The Autograph infamous men’s prison, Wormwood Scrubs. her book mixes fond memories with Man – he discovered that with life, as in Awarded an MBE for her work in the prison mismanagement and family challenges. The autographs, not everything is as it seems, services and now retired and volunteering daughter of Sir John Mills and Whistle Down as he discovered fraudulence in his own at an animal sanctuary, she comes to Henley The Wind author Mary Hayley Bell, she won family. Two Hitlers and a Marilyn is a funny to discuss her memoir The Governor: The an Oscar for her first lead role in Pollyanna, and moving account of learning that idols Unbelievable True Story of My Life Inside going on to star in The Parent Trap, That Darn are mortals. Interviewed by the Daily Mail’s Britain’s Most Notorious Prisons. Cat! and many more. This event is sponsored by Mark Palmer. Gower Cottage Brownies. 24 25
TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER ARCHBISHOP STEPHEN COTTRELL JULIA STONEHOUSE MATTHEW D’ANCONA CRIME AND WINE INTERVIEWED BY MARK PALMER MY FATHER: THE RUNAWAY MP INTERVIEWED BY DANIEL HAHN NICCI FRENCH & IMRAN MAHMOOD 4pm · Christ Church · £12 4pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 6.30pm · Christ Church · £12 8.30pm · Laithwaites Stage · £12 inc. wine Our ever-popular series continues with We have a Paddington barista to thank In November 1974, Labour MP John Having edited The Spectator and written for three thriller writers, accompanied by a for inspiring Dear England: Finding Hope, Stonehouse faked his death in Miami and The Guardian and New York Times, Matthew glass of Laithwaites wine. Nicci French is Taking Heart and Changing the World, as they entered Australia hoping to escape his has risen through the babble of political the pseudonym of husband-and-wife Nicci asked the Archbishop of York why he first old life. One month later his identity was columnists to become a respected voice of Gerrard and Sean French, who have written became a priest. Now the man heading the uncovered, and he was jailed for seven reason. The title of his latest book is in itself over 20 bestsellers, the latest The Unheard Church of England during Justin Welby’s years. Now in John Stonehouse My Father: The honest and forthright: Identity, Ignorance, follows a mother who believes her three- sabbatical this summer, has extended his True Story of the Runaway MP, his daughter Innovation: Why the Old Politics is Useless - year-old has witnessed something terrible. answer, writing a letter to a country he saw Julia reveals the full true story, in a tale that and what to do about it. It is a clarion call Barrister-turned-bestseller Imran Mahmood as divided. The former Bishop of Reading involves spies from the communist Czech for anyone who cares about politics in returns with his second novel I Know What makes his Festival debut with this impor tant secret service, a three-way love affair and this country and what the future holds. A I Saw, where a homeless former banker and topical book. Interviewed by Daily Mail’s much more. thought-provoking hour in the company of a witnesses a murder, but no one will believe Mark Palmer. hugely talented writer awaits. him. They will be interviewed by Cesca Major. STUART LAWRENCE ROB BECKETT *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 6.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee· £6 8.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £25 inc. book Class has been at the centre of countless After Stephen Lawrence’s tragic murder conversations in this country for centuries. in 1993 his family have strived to improve But rarely as candid, charming and hilarious society. Now, in this special all-ages event as A Class Act: Life as a Working-Class Man in his brother Stuar t (an educator and a Middle-Class World. 8 Out of 10 Cats team motivational speaker) comes to Henley captain Rob comes to Henley to discuss the to discuss his book for young people: book and a comedy career that has seen Silence is Not An Option: You Can Impact the him win Taskmaster, host All Together Now World for Change. Interviewed by Born and alongside Geri Haliwell, star at Adelaide and Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass. Edinburgh festivals and present a parenting This event is sponsored by St Helen and St Katharine. podcast with Josh Widdicombe! This is a family event from our Children’s Programme *Ticket price includes the book A (for ages 0-18), for full detail see p57. Class Act (RRP £20) which will be given to you at the event 26 27
WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER PETER HAIN 10am · Laithwaites Stage · £10 Before his long and distinguished career in British politics – including serving as Secretary of State for both Wales and Nor thern Ireland – Lord Hain achieved notoriety in his native South Africa, where he was dubbed ‘Public Enemy Number One’, after organising militant anti-Springbok demonstrations. He went on to use British parliamentary privilege to expose looting ADVERT6 (LM) and money laundering in President Zuma’s administration - likely influencing his resignation. His memoir A Pretoria Boy looks back over five decades of fighting apar theid and corruption. JEREMY PAXMAN MARINA WHEELER *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 12pm · Christ Church · £12 12pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition £30 inc. book/ £40 for 2 tickets & 1 book and the Punjab is Marina’s family memoir, After Friends in High Places and The English, recounting the story of her mother the University Challenge host returns Dip Singh’s experience living through with his latest brilliant social history Black Par tition, weaving a story of loss and YO U W R I T E T H E B O O KS . Gold. He tells the story of the people who new beginnings, personal and political worked in the mines, the villages that grew A N D L E AV E U S T O K E E P T H E M . around them, the two greatest industrial freedom into the broad history of the region. A barrister specialising in strikes of the 20th Century and how the H W F ishe r is a top 25 char tered accountancy firm which has been public law, human rights and mental commodity made Britain the first urban a dvising author s and jour nalists for many years, helping them to health, she returns to Henley having manage their f inances. nation. Interviewed by Stephen Robinson. previously been married to the town’s This event is sponsored by Freeths LLP. Fo r a fre e consultation, please contact And rew Subramaniam: then-MP, Boris Johnson. She will be in AS ubramaniam@hwf isher.co.uk *Ticket price includes the book conversation with BBC journalist and Black Countr y (RRP £25) which will be given to you at the event Partition Voices author Kavita Puri. E X P R E S S YO U R TA L E N T. DEPEND ON OURS. W W W. H W F I S H E R.C O. U K 29
WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER SIMON THURLEY GARDEN TALES ALAN JOHNSON LIFE & DEATH AT THE STUART COURT GERALD STRATFORD & ANNA GREEENLAND *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 2pm · Christ Church · £12 2pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 4pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 The former English Heritage and Museum Lockdown produced several unlikely stars A Festival favourite returns, as the former of London chief argues that while the and among them was the Cotswold grandad Home, Health & Education Secretary turned Tudors are our favourite royal dynasty, it is Gerald ‘the vegetable king’. In his seventies, acclaimed author discusses his long and the Stuar ts who provide the excitement. he shared his enthusiasm for growing varied career with Daniel Hahn. A winning In Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art vegetables on Twitter and now comes to storyteller, with his bestselling series of at the Stuart Court, he takes us from James Henley with his book Big Veg, with gardening memoirs, he has now written his first novel: I through to Charles II, via the fall and tips and wisdom, plus an easy to follow The Late Train to Gypsy Hill. His protagonist’s execution of Charles 1. A fascinating time guide to sowing, planting and harvesting. commute is only brightened by his in our history, told through palaces and ar t, Gardening tips will also be revealed by rising infatuation with a beautiful fellow passenger. with Simon’s exper t eye as architectural star of the organic grow-your-own scene, One evening she invites him to sit next to historian. Anna who offers jargon-free information her and shows him a message scrawled on and inspiration to grow organically and her makeup mirror : ‘Help me’. sustainably with Grow Easy. This event is sponsored by Phyllis Court. ROYAL SECRETS CHRISTINA LAMB RICHARD ALDRICH & RORY CORMAC IN CONVERSATION WITH ELEANOR MILLS 4pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 4pm · Christ Church · £12 After another dramatic year for the An oppor tunity to hear from one of the monarchy and with the Queen’s platinum most courageous and talented journalists jubilee approaching, join us for an hour of of her generation. As Sunday Times chief insights and untold stories. The Black Door foreign correspondent she has travelled authors Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac the world repor ting from trouble spots reveal all, from assassination attempts to for three decades. She reflects on a career continued intelligence influence in The that includes cowriting I Am Malala, the Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown. Based on acclaimed Our Bodies, Their Battlefield on original research and new evidence, they will the suffering of women in conflicts and reveal how far their Majesties still call the the upcoming One Day in April: How the shots in a hidden world and presents the Coronavirus Pandemic Exposed a Divided British monarchy in an entirely new light. Britain. 30 31
WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER ROBERT WEBB ANYA HINDMARCH LOCALLY CRIMINAL *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 IF IN DOUBT, WASH YOUR HAIR ROBERT THOROGOOD & JENNY QUINTANA 6.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 8.30pm · Christ Church · £12 8.30pm · Laithwaites Stage · £12 inc. wine Known for his comedy par tnership with From the I’m Not a Plastic Bag campaign Two local authors with national profiles join David Mitchell, TV hits Peep Show and to hosting a sleepover at Peter Jones us to discuss their latest thrillers and writing Back plus his No.1 Sunday Times bestseller depar tment store, who better to share her careers, fittingly accompanied by a glass of memoir How Not to Be a Boy, Rober t brings tips on tackling the stresses of modern living Laithwaites Wine. Rober t is the creator of his comic talents to bear in his first novel than globally renowned businesswoman, the long-running BBC One’s hit Death in Come Again. Kate wakes up one morning fashion designer and mother of five Anya? Paradise but has swapped the Caribbean for as her 18-year-old self about to fall in love If In Doubt, Wash Your Hair is her manual Buckinghamshire with The Marlow Murder again with her late husband, now 19 again for life; with humour and honesty that she Club as septuagenarian Judith witness but Kate knows how it all ends. Will she hopes will show you how to live a little a killing while swimming in the Thames. save his life? Hear how Rober t reflects on better - and why sometimes, the answer can Bershire-based Our Dark Secret author Jenny his hugely successful career. Interviewed by be just washing your hair. returns with The Hiding Place, a story of Cesca Major. identity, love, lies and long-buried secrets. This event is sponsored by THP Solicitors. Interviewed by Amanda Jennings. TECHNOLOGY & THE FUTURE MICHAEL JOSEPH PROOF PARTY SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR SAM GILBERT & TRACEY FOLLOWS CLAIRE ALEXANDER *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 6.30pm · Christ Church · £12 8.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £20 inc. book 6.30pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 inc. proof Two tech exper ts offer positive outlooks. Be one of the first to get your hands on Spinning Plates is an apt book title for a In Good Data: An Optimist’s Guide To Our 2022’s most anticipated books. Meredith, pop star, Strictly Come Dancing finalist, Digital Future, Experian strategy head turned Alone will be published in June 2022 and broadcaster, charity campaigner, model and Cambridge researcher Sam argues that tells the story of Meredith Maggs who mother to five sons, Sophie, whose kitchen contrary to fears, the data revolution could has not left her house for 1,215 days. As discos were a lockdown highlight for families be the best thing that ever happened to the novel unfolds we find out why (it isn’t across the UK. It’s also the name of the us. While futurist Tracey shows how our pandemic related, we promise). Compared podcast she launched last year, with guests personal freedoms have the potential to be to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, or The including Nadiya Hussain and Caitlin Moran. transformed over the coming decades in The Keeper of Lost Things, Meredith, Alone will be This event is sponsored by Gower Cottage Brownies. Future of You. the book everyone is reading in their book This event is sponsored by Scottish Mortgage groups next year, so why not get ahead *Ticket price includes the book A Spinning Plates (RRP £16.99) Investment Trust. and read it first? Claire Alexander will be in which will be given to you at the conversation with Daisy Buchanan. event 32 33
THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER DAVID PROFUMO INTERVIEWED BY JON RYAN FINGEST GREAT BARN OPERA DON GIOVANNI 10am · Laithwaites Stage · £10 His previous family memoir Bringing Down the House told the story of the scandal synonymous with the Profumo name. Now in The Lightning Thread, David turns to a passion that began in childhood and continues to this day: the restorative power of nature and fishing. The award-winning novelist and journalist explores the delights advert 7 LM and mysteries of one of mankind’s most ancient pursuits and shows how it embraces DON GIOVANNI folklore, poetry, magic, drink and disaster. AMBRIDGE ADVENTURES MANOR FARM, FINGEST CATHERINE MILLER, SUNNY ORMONDE & SIMON WILLIAMS 12pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, RG9 6QE The ultimate treat for all fans of The Bizet’s ‘CARMEN’ Saturday 11th September Archers, (the Radio 4 series that marks its 70th anniversary this year). And what Mozart’s ‘DON GIOVANNI’ Saturday 18th September 2021 better way to celebrate than this fun hour. Operas start at 6.00pm Ambridge at War author Catherine Miller returns with Home Fires at Ambridge and is Tickets £100 / £85 Call 01491 638474 joined by two of the show’s stars, Simon Williams who plays Justin Elliott and Sunny or email: fingestopera@btconnect.com Ormonde, known as Lilian Bellamy for over two decades on air. We can hear the theme www.fingestgreatbarnopera.co.uk tune now. This event is sponsored by law firm in aid of Child Bereavement UK Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP. and Action Medical Research *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 for Children 35
THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER THE FULL LENGTH DATE 7GOES THURSDAY HERE OCTOBER DAME ELIZABETH ANIONWU JEEVAN VASAGAR JON SOPEL INTERVIEWED BY KATHERINE GRAINGER INTERVIEWED BY SUNNY SINGH INTERVIEWED BY KIM DARROCH 12pm · Christ Church · £12 12pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 2pm · Christ Church · £12 Overcoming the discrimination she faced The former Singapore correspondent for After our hugely popular Collateral Damage in 1940s Britain as the child of a white the Financial Times masterfully takes us online event last year, the roles are reversed mother and black father - both Cambridge through the intricate history, present and here in Henley as former British Ambassador students at the time, Dame Elizabeth went future of this unique diamond-shaped island to the US and National Security Adviser Kim on to become one of the country’s greatest one degree nor th of the equator, where Darroch interviews the BBC Nor th America nurses. From becoming the first ever sickle new and old have remained connected. correspondent about his career and latest cell nurse specialist, reuniting with her father Jeevan examines the different faces of book. UnPresidented is the Americast host’s (Nigeria’s first ambassador to Italy) to Singaporean life, from education and health gripping, witty and insightful account of a founding the Mary Seacole Centre and being to ar t, politics, and demographic challenges. US election campaign even more turbulent one of the BBC Women of the Year in 2020, Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of than the one he covered in 2016, as Biden she tells her unique story in Dreams From Modern Asia tells the extraordinary story of and Trump battled against the backdrop of a My Mother. the world’s most successful city state. pandemic devastating the country. This event is sponsored by HW Fisher. DAME STEPHANIE SHIRLEY TOM BRADBY *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 *Watch the livestream of this event for £5 2pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 4pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee · £14 Philanthropist, entrepreneur and Henley His three decades at ITN have included resident, Dame Stephanie returns to the notable stints as royal correspondent and Festival following the paperback release political editor, before his current role as of her memoir Let It Go. From arriving in News at Ten anchor. Not only one of our England as a five-year-old Kindertranspor t most respected broadcasters, Tom is also refugee in 1939, to becoming a Companion a bestselling author. He adapted his debut of Honour, she reflects on an extraordinary Shadow Dancer into a hit film and now life and how giving her wealth away has Triple Cross sees former MI6 operative Kate brought her more happiness than acquiring Henderson receive an unwelcome visit it with her pioneering software career. from the Prime Minister, sparking a high- stake series of events. He comes to Henley to discuss his career on screen and on the page. This event is sponsored by Phyllis Court. 36 OR CALL 01491 575 948, 10AM-4PM MONDAY TO FRIDAY 37 XX
THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER THE FULL LENGTH DATE 7GOES THURSDAY HERE OCTOBER HOW TO BE AN AUTHOR SAUL DAVID BRIAN BILSTON SUSANNA BEARD & RACHEL EDWARDS SBS: SILENT WARRIORS *Watch the livestream of this event for £20 6.30pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 6.30pm · Christ Church · £12 8.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee· £12 Two successful novelists with Henley Founded in 1940 as a small, volunteer- A social media phenomenon and Costa- connections return to the Festival to dependent outfit, Britain’s Special Boat nominated for his debut novel Diary of a discuss their journeys to publication, writing Service was the world’s first maritime Somebody. But who is Brian? Here is your processes and latest books with former special operations. Deployed in the chance to find out on National Poetry Day. Society of Authors chair Daniel Hahn. Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the Channel The Poet Laureate of Twitter who can by Sunday Times columnist Rachel Edwards and the Far East it went on to become turns be funny, moving, and acerbic, but follows her acclaimed debut Darling with one of the most effective fighting forces of never dull. A lover of Vimto and less so of Lucky, exploring race, gambling addiction, the Second World War and the model for Jeremy Clarkson, his latest collection Alexa, power and privilege. Marlow-based Susanna special forces ever since. Now, Professor of What is There to Know About Love? covers Beard is a Faber Academy alumna and has Military History and award-winning author romance in all its forms and bubbles with written four thrillers, most recently The Saul joins us with SBS: Silent Warriors, the wit and humour, as you would expect. Brian Perfect Life and The Lost Brother. first authorised history of the service, will be in conversation with The Sisterhood drawing on secret archives. author Daisy Buchanan. JACK DEE MUM’S NIGHT OUT 6.30pm · Baillie Gifford Marquee LAURA BRAND & STEPH DOUGLAS £25 in-person inc. book / £20 online inc. book From nosy neighbours and tricky teenagers 8.30pm · Laithwaites Stage · £12 inc. wine to financial failings and coping with The last year has tested even the most Christmas, Jack is here to help with his proactive parents when it comes to keeping hilarious What Is Your Problem? Comedy’s children engaged and enter tained. Step Little Ray of Sleet Grapples with Life’s Major forward illustrator and Instagram star Laura Dilemmas. The stand-up icon, actor and host with The Joy Journal for Magical Play: Easy of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue comes to the Activities & Creative Craft for Kids and their Festival for a special pre-publication event Grown-Ups. With a foreword by Fearne to discuss his career, the book and what on Cotton, the book showcases mindful, planet- earth to do about Mike from accounts. friendly and, crucially, very simple things *Watch the livestream of this event for £20 to make and do. Laura, who lives close to Henley with her husband Russell, their *Ticket price includes the book What is Your Problem (RRP £20) daughters, dogs, cats and chickens, speaks to which will be given to you at the Don’t Buy Her Flowers founder Steph Douglas. event Ticket includes a glass of Laithwaites wine. 38 OR CALL 01491 575 948, 10AM-4PM MONDAY TO FRIDAY 39 XX
FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER EXCELLENT REPUTATION TRUSTED MARKET ADVICE LUCINDA HAWKSLEY JANE GORDON INDEPENDENT ESTATE AGENT 10am · Laithwaites Stage · £10 12pm · Laithwaites Stage · £10 LOCAL BUSINESS, LOCAL PEOPLE From some of the most significant moments When the journalist – best known for in history to everyday joys and sorrows, columns in the Sunday Telegraph and The Letters of Great Women combines biography, Mail on Sunday – found herself hospitalised archival images and transcribed letters after a car accident, she had to confront by everyone from Katherine of Aragon, what it might be like to be infirm. Her Cleopatra and Florence Nightingale to Nina response was to find ways to stay physically Simone, Greta Thunberg and Ruth Bader and mentally fit, from brain training and gut Ginsburg. Having previously written books health to ballroom dancing and learning a on the Queen, Lizzie Siddal and her great- second language. How Not To Get Old is her ADVERT 8 (LM) great-great-grandfather Charles Dickens, funny and fascinating look at how women the March Women March author joins can stay happy and healthy. In conversation Daniel Hahn to discuss her carefully curated with The Sisterhood author Daisy Buchanan. collection of compelling correspondence. This event is sponsored by HW Fisher. SIMON HEFFER 12pm · Christ Church · £12 Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries made headlines earlier this year. Now comes Volume Two, again edited by Sunday Telegraph columnist and author Simon, who joins Oldie editor Harry Mount to discuss the Southend MP’s inside account of 1938-1943. From the heady aftermath of ES TAT E A G E N TS | H E N L EY O N THA MES the Munich agreement to the midst of the Second World War, as well as Churchill and Delivering good value and excellent service. Chamberlain, he char ts encounters with Your personal estate agent and trusted adviser for buying @philipboothesq Noël Coward, Prince Philip and de Gaulle, as and selling all types of homes in Berks, Bucks & Oxon. well as the implosion of his own marriage to Guinness heiress Lady Honor. Tel: 01491 876544 or 07795 422284 This event is sponsored by HW Fisher. Email: phil@philipboothesq.com www.philipboothesq.com 41
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