Thank you to the Picton Little Theatre for inviting me to speak about Dickens in their beautiful Marlborough Sounds town, on the South Island of New Zealand. The theatre might be ‘little’ but the audience was huge! It was standing room only and a superb atmosphere (helped by the mulled wine, after all, it is … Read more
The Auckland Writers’ Festival was amazing and inspirational. Thank you to Anne and the team for inviting me. What an incredible week!
On 3 August, I’ll be leading a workshop on “Princess Louise and Other Remarkable Women” at the Gerrards Cross Summer School in Buckinghamshire. http://www.gerrardscrosssummerschool.co.uk/ssprogramme/index.html#D58
I’ll be talking about Charles Dickens and his Circle at the Auckland Writers’ Festival on 19 May: http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/event/on-charles-lucinda-hawksley/331132/ Tickets are on sale now.
I am so pleased to have been invited to speak about “Charles Dickens and his Circle” at the Auckland Writer’s Festival in New Zealand. My event will take place at 5.30pm on Friday 19 May; tickets are on sale now. http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/event/on-charles-lucinda-hawksley/331132/
Last night I launched my new book The Writer Abroad, an anthology of historic travel writing, from authors as diverse in time and style as Herodotus and Roald Dahl. It’s being published by the British Library on 23 February, this photo has just been tweeted by the library – the start of the book signing … Read more
Last night I was invited onto the Phil Williams Show on radio BBC 5 Live, to talk about my recent experience of being harassed by a male passenger, on a British Airways flight from India (an experience over which BA have really lost my former customer loyalty). Almost no airlines have made an effort to … Read more
My next book, The Writer Abroad, is being published by British Library Books in February 2017. I’ve just received my first author copy and it looks beautiful, with such a gorgeously tactile cover. It is an anthology of historic travel writing and shows how much our view of the world has changed as travel and … Read more
I’m excited to be speaking at the Jaipur Literature Festival this month. I’ve just been reminded of an interview I did for The Times of India, when I was travelling there in 2011. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/India-would-have-inspired-Dickens/articleshow/8333050.cms