Proms at St Jude’s LitFest returns for another year with an array of amazing authors. If you would like to attend you can buy your ticket either for a singular talk or the whole weekend by clicking here.
All books can be bought through us and you will have the choice of having the book posted to you, collected in our shop or collected at the festival.
A pre-recorded event with Hilary Mantel in conversation with Mark Lawson will be available to all free of charge. The event will be available to view from 19.00 on 19th of June by clicking here.
Order your copy of The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel here
The schedule for the weekend is as follows
Saturday, 26 June 2021 13.30
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason In conversation with Bridget Galton
House of Music is a story about a mother and her children – seven extraordinary musicians who have become national phenomena. Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason opens up for the first time about what it was like to raise a family in a Britain divided by class and race with everything stacked against them.
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Saturday, 26 June 16.00
Philippe Sands in conversation with Claire Berliner
A Holocaust mass murderer on the run, an international race to bring him to justice ... this is the compelling background to Philippe Sands' part memoir, part detective story The Ratline. Fugitive Brigadeführer Otto von Wächter, responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of Jews in Poland – including Sands’ grandfather and other family members – came tantalisingly close to evading retribution
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Sunday, 27 June 10.00
Rory Cellan-Jones in conversation with Simon Lewis
The BBC's technology correspondent reveals the inside story of how tech became personal ... and pernicious. In his latest book Always ON, Rory Cellan-Jones also looks ahead to the implications of self-driving cars, AI and the unforeseen impact of the digital revolution. In a personal epilogue, he considers his own struggles with Parkinson's, glaucoma and Covid and probes the technology being used to combat these ills.
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Sunday, 27 June 12.15
David Nott
In his book War Doctor, he tells the gripping story of life on the front line, carrying out life-saving operations in the most challenging conditions in the war-torn middle east and Africa. He was awarded an OBE in 2012 and a film based on his life is in development.
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Sunday, 27 June 14.30
Marina Wheeler
In The Lost Homestead, famed human rights lawyer, Marina Wheeler tells the dramatic story of her Sikh mother’s desperate escape from her home, never to return, during the 1947 Partition of India. As an Anglo-Indian – her father was the distinguished BBC journalist Charles Wheeler – Marina succeeds in making sense of her mother’s experience through accounts from her Indian family plus her own research and travels.
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Sunday, 27 June 16:45
John Preston in conversation with David Aaronovitch
What happened to turn war hero, MP, media mogul and would-be English gentleman Robert Maxwell into a bloated, amoral wreck? In his gripping book, Fall, journalist John Preston delivers the definitive account of Maxwell's extraordinary rise and scandalous fall. His previous book A Very English Scandal became a BAFTA-winning BBC drama series. John Preston is in conversation with Times journalist, radio presenter and author David Aaronovitch.
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