• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Humphrey Hawksley

Author, commentator and broadcaster

  • Home
  • About
  • Journalism
  • Books
  • Humphrey’s
    Diary
  • Podcasts
  • Blog
  • Contact
    & Photos
  • Rake Ozenna Thrillers
  • Future History
  • International Thrillers
  • Non-Fiction
  • All Books

Goldster

Inside Story with Humphrey: Vikas Swarup

22nd September 2021

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 […]

Read More

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Goldster

Inside Story with Humphrey: Louise Doughty

22nd September 2021

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 More

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Goldster

Inside Story with Humphrey: Linda Stratmann

18th August 2021 Leave a Comment

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 More

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Goldster

Goldster Book Club with Humphrey: Laurie Lee

18th August 2021 1 Comment

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 More

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Goldster

Inside Story with Humphrey: Jane Thynne

18th August 2021 Leave a Comment

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 More

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Goldster

Inside Story with Humphrey: Tim Marshall

13th July 2021 1 Comment

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 More

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Goldster

Goldster Book Club with Humphrey: Widowland by C. J. Carey

13th July 2021 Leave a Comment

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 More

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Goldster

Inside Story with Humphrey: Sir Muir Gray

13th July 2021 Leave a Comment

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!: […]

Read More

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Goldster

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 16
  • Go to page 17
  • Go to page 18
  • Go to page 19
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

For enquiries and further information

To contact Humphrey:
[email protected]

Before sending your email address please read our GDPR Compliance Statement and Privacy Notice to reassure yourself that we are looking after your data responsibly.

Footer

Search site

Goldster

  • The Goldster Inside Story Podcast
  • Goldster Conversations Video Archive

Connect with Humphrey

Join Humphrey’s mailing list

Subscribe

Email Humphrey

For general enquiries and bookings for events:

[email protected] and [email protected]

Copyright © 2008–2023 Humphrey Hawksley · All rights reserved · Site Terms, Cookies and Privacy · GDPR Compliance Statement · Website by LiT Web Studio

Manage Cookie Consent
This site uses cookies and other tracking technologies to assist with navigation and your ability to leave comments, analyse your use of our website, assist with our social media promotional efforts, and provide content from third parties.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
Cookie choices
{title} {title} {title}