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 […]
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Inside 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 […]
Read MoreGoldster Book Club: Humphrey discusses Failures of State
The legendary Sunday Times Insight team turns its skills to the pandemic in Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Coronavirus. Months of digging by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott has given us an inside story that is both thrilling and appalling. Andrew Marr calls it a ‘devastating piece of journalism’. Piers Morgan says the book […]
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Webinar on 17 June 2021 onUnderstanding Pakistan’s overtures for peace with India: is China the elephant in the room?Please share @HumphreyHawk @hwhawksley pic.twitter.com/3uyMyZmSah — The Democracy Forum (@democracy_forum) June 10, 2021
Read MoreGoldster Book Chat: Humphrey talks medieval cookery and crime with Martine Bailey
Fay Weldon described Martine Bailey as Culinary Gothic. Join Humphrey Hawksley for a live Goldster Book Chat, on Friday 4th June at midday, with the adored author of historical whodunnits (who also represented the UK at the Dessert Championships in Paris). Find out how she marinates her ideas for oven and murder mysteries. In her […]
Read MoreGoldster Book Club: Humphrey Reviews Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird
The 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is featured in the Goldster Book Club with Humphrey Hawksley, on Friday 28th May at midday. Set in Alabama, the story’s issues of race and American society remain as relevant today, as when it was first written.
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