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!: […]
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 […]
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.
Read MoreGoldster Book Chat: Humphrey talks to Mark Sanderson, Crime Critic of The Times
MISSING THIS WOULD BE A CRIME IN ITSELF. Join Humphrey Hawksley on 7th May at midday in a live conversation with Mark Sanderson, The Times critic and the man with the daunting task of picking out the best new books in the most popular literary genre in the world – crime. Find out how he […]
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