Vikas Swarup is a very recently retired very senior Indian diplomat. He has been High Commissioner to Canada and the official spokesperson for the Indian foreign ministry and a consul-general in Japan. So what has any of that got to do with a Goldster Book Chat, you might ask. Well, do you remember an Oscar-winning […]
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Inside Story with Humphrey: Louise Doughty
Louise Doughty is the author of nine novels, one work of non-fiction and five plays for radio. Her most recent novel is Platform Seven (2019). The previous book, Black Water, (2016) was nominated as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year and her seventh novel was the bestseller Apple Tree Yard […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Linda Stratmann
Linda Stratmann is a historical mystery writer with a string of titles of true crime and fictional crime and her latest is set in 1872 Brighton and called the Cyanide Ghost with a feisty, intrepid investigator Mini Scarletti. The sixth in the series. Her non-fiction work reads like a chronicle of Inspector Morse meets Bergerac […]
Read MoreGoldster Book Club with Humphrey: Laurie Lee
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 […]
Read MoreInside 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 […]
Read MoreInside 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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