Speakers 2023

About Past Events 2024 Speakers

Here are the speakers, dates and locations for the 2024 festival:

Judith Robinson and Scott Pack

Around the World in Ten Cats

Catherine Coldstream

Cloistered: A Modern Monastic Memoir

Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC and His Honour Judge Nigel Lithman KC

Unlawful Killings and Nothing Like the Truth

Chalfont St Giles Parish Church

Phillip Sheahan

The WRITE Time is NOW

Jordans Quaker Centre

Esme Young

Behind the Seams

Dr Pat Morris MBE

The Secret Life of Hedgehogs

Helen Czerski

Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World

Leye Adenle

Writing a Modern African Thriller

Lucinda Hawksley

Charles Dickens: A Victorian Traveller

Dr Helen Fry

Women in Intelligence: A Hidden History from WW1 to WW2

Chalfont St Giles Parish Church

Anne Sebba

Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother

John Davis

Writing Sixties London

Fergus Butler-Gallie

Touching Cloth: Confessions of a Young Priest

Chalfont St Giles Parish Church

Charles Spicer

Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs who Tried to Civilise the Nazis

Chalfont St Giles Parish Church

Rabbi Jonathan Romain

Confessions of a Rabbi

Jane Robinson

Trailblazer: The Amazing Life of Barbara Bodichon

Dr Matthew Green

Shadowlands

Tim Moorey

The Secrets of a Crossword Setter

Jordans Quaker Centre

The Bookshop Band

An evening of live music inspired by books

Clive Myrie

Everything is Everything