Acclaimed travel writer, adventurer and historian, Justin Marozzi, discusses a topic that has captured our headlines and politics for years. Yet, for many of us, it remains a mystery. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islam once lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while […]
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Goldster Book Club with Humphrey: Debborah Moggach
With her mischievous and inventive imagination Deborah Moggach has already bought us The Best Marigold Hotel, Tulip Fever and a book shelf of others. Now in Black Dress, we met Pru who is on her own after her husband has walked out on her. She misses not so much him but the togetherness that a […]
Read MoreInside Story with Adam Williams: Humphrey Hawksley
We are delighted however that our presenter, Humphrey Hawksley, himself adventurer, traveller, lecturer, journalist and author, has agreed to step into the breech and tell us about his own remarkable life. Many of us know Humphrey from his many appearances over the last 40 years on BBC News, reporting from every continent on the planet. […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Anna Kennedy
When Anna and Sean Kennedy discovered that one of their sons had Asperger’s syndrome and that their other son was Autistic, they were truly devastated. But their family’s troubles were just the beginning. When searching to the right schools for their boys, they were turned down from twenty-six educational institutions which supposedly focused on special […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Vikas Swarup
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 MoreInside 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 […]
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