CHISWICK BOOK FESTIVAL
CHISWICK
Book Festival
Director Torin Douglas is delighted to welcome you back in person to the festival This year’s Chiswick Book Festival will be held with live audiences, subject to the Government’s rules in September. Please save the dates: September 9th to 15th 2021 (with the pre-Festival Local Authors Evening on September 7th). Speakers will include Gyles Brandreth, Clare Balding, Ed Balls, Mary Anne Sieghart, Anne Sebba, Sarfraz Manzoor, Emily Mortimer, Tim Marshall, Steve Richards, Dr Amir Khan, Andrew Lownie, Suzannah Lipscomb, Parm Sandhu, Stuart Prebble, Jim Down, Roger Hermiston, Jacqueline Riding and many more. Gyles Brandreth will be talking about his autobiography Odd Boy Out. Known to audiences of Just
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a Minute, QI, Have I Got News For You and Celebrity Gogglebox for his wit and good humour, Odd Boy Out is about more than Gyles and his exploits: ‘it is also a kaleidoscopic portrait of Britain from the 1950s onwards, featuring a cast drawn from politics, the media, swinging London, stage and screen, from Laurence Olivier to Twiggy’. Clare Balding’s motivational book Fall Off, Get Back On, Keep Going, recounts the inspirational stories of famous people who have shown courage in the face of adversity. Intended for older children and young teenagers. Ed Balls’ book Appetite is ‘a memoir with a twist’: part autobiography, part cookbook,
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as befits an author who is now probably better known as a chef and a dancer than he is as a politician. Anne Sebba’s biography of Ethel Rosenberg is the tale of a 37 year old mother of two executed for conspiracy to commit espionage during the Cold War – ‘a catastrophic failure of humanity and justice that continues to haunt the national conscience’. On the fiction front, former Home Secretary Alan Johnson will introduce his first novel and there will be acclaimed fiction from Jane Thynne (writing as CJ Carey), Jessica Fellowes, Elizabeth Buchan, Nancy Tucker, Susan Spindler and many more. www.outaboutmagazine.co.uk
