As I Walked Out One Summer’s Morning by Laurie Lee is an auto-biographical account of youth with brilliant writing, captivating story-telling, observations on destitution in Britain in the 1930s and Spain heading toward war. Lee was 19-years-old – ‘still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune…excited, vain glorious knowing I […]
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Inside Story with Humphrey: Jane Thynne
Jane Thynne, writing under the pen name C. J. Carey, is the author of Widowland which has been described as the most important feminist novel for decades. Her incredible imagination has created a Britain which forged a Grand Alliance with Nazi Germany and from there a grim but realistic Dystopian society in which, among many […]
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Inside Story with Humphrey: Tim Marshall
How does the world work? How does it fit together? And how does geography, those mountains, valleys and oceans that divide and link us, determine our destiny in politics, trade and well-being. Tim Marshall is the man with the answers. Six years ago, he published Prisoners of Geography which became an international bestseller, with Ten […]
Read MoreGoldster Book Club with Humphrey: Widowland by C. J. Carey
Widowland by C.J. Carey has been described as the most important feminist novel for decades. Set in 1953, it tells of an alternate history where instead of Nazi defeat, there has been a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany. The Ministry of Culture rewrites literature to correct the past, and Widowland is an impoverished […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Sir Muir Gray
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!: […]
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Goldster Book Chat: Humphrey talks to Jeremy Trevathan from Pan Macmillan
Join Humphrey Hawksley on Friday 2nd July at noon as he’ll be chatting with publishing legend Jeremy Trevathan from the UK’s Publisher of the Year, Pan Macmillan. We’ll find the truth from the man behind our most famous fiction best-sellers, as well as how to deal with divas as the publisher for the top celebrity […]
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