Events

What do Erotica and Sherlock Holmes have in common?  Find out in Goldster’s amazing end of year Inside Story with the legendary Maxim Jakubowski, the mastermind of The Mammoth Book of Erotica, the creator of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the compiler of numerous anthologies and currently chair of the Crime Writers’ Association with its Red Herrings […]

Professor Sir Muir Gray is reframing the public conversation about getting old.  He is the co-author of two hilarious but insightful books aptly named Sod 60 and Sod 70, both subtitled, The Guide to Living Well. .  His other books include Midlife: Look Younger, Live Longer, Feel Better, Antidote to Ageing and  Sod Sitting, Get Moving!: Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond.  No […]

Alex Shaw is an international best-selling author of the AIDAN SNOW and JACK TATE thrillers, stories  rich with material drawn from his adventures and travelling. He spent the second half of the 1990s in Ukraine teaching drama and running his own business consultancy before being head-hunted for a division of Siemens. That job set him […]

Born into Soviet Jewish intelligentsia, leading Russian opposition figure, Leonid Volkov, is now in exile in Lithuania. Through lawyers, he liaises with his jailed friend Alexei Navalny who is serving nine years in a maximum-security Russian prison. Both became Internet bloggers with massive followings, Leonid was Navalny’s chief-of-staff for his Moscow mayoral campaign in 2013 […]

Animal-lover Gillian Carrick is the author health guides for pets which includes tips for their healthy ageing.  Gillian’s early career took her far away from her passion. With a degree in politics, she became a researcher in the House of Commons and a feature writer on the House magazine. She then moved to BBC Radio with stints […]

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote is the story of a young writer arriving in New York in the late 1950s and meeting his remarkable neighbor, Holly Golightly, played by Audrey Hepburn in the film. The wonderful novella has come to Goldster Book Club as a request by members, one in particular who asked how a […]

Over the last three decades, Ethan Chorin has had an extraordinary view of developments in the Middle East and North Africa as an American diplomat, oil and ports executive and advisor to senior government officials. Much of his has been on the oil-rich North African country of Libya, where he was posted as one of […]