This illustrated talk, presented by Cindy Sughrue, Director of the Charles Dickens Museum, and Lucinda Hawksley, art historian, biographer, award-winning travel writer, and great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, explores Dickens’s lifelong fascination with the neighbourhood of St-Giles-in-the-Fields. …
Those Goldster members who have been with us since 2020, will remember that one of our earliest Book Club discussions was about Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow. Four years on we are returning to discussing the work of this masterful modern writer. Rules of Civility was Towles’s debut novel, set in New York City in 1938. It follows the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old, who has the fabulous name of Katey Kontent. …
Lucinda will talk to Victoria about her most exciting adventures, most-admired women and favourite books – an evening that will be peppered with snippets of Dickensian drama and Victorian music! …
An Evening with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
Every holiday season, Ford’s Theatre brings Charles Dickens’s beloved tale A Christmas Carol to life on stage. This season, join us for a special online discussion with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, Dickens’s great-great-great-granddaughter and an accomplished author herself. …
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Lucinda Hawksley, great great great daughter of Charles Dickens, reveals how Charles Dicken’s journeys influenced his writing and enriched his life. Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 18402 he whisked his family away to live in Itay for a year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne where he lived in secret with his lover). In addition to travelling widely in Europe, he also toured America twice …
How do you navigate your way in a world where nothing is quite as it seems? In her latest novel, Shrines of Gaiety, Kate Atkinson takes us back to London in 1926, a world of gangsters and Bright Young Things, dancing and revelry – all haunted by the horrors of the Great War. […]
Four years ago, Liz’s life changed in an instant, with the devastating loss of her son, Raph. Known to many by the name of Iggy Fox, Raph was a leading figure of Extinction Rebellion. Following his unexpected death while filming an environmental campaign in South Africa, Liz abandoned the novel she was working on and wrote a book about grief. She will be discussing Your Wild and Precious Life: on grief, hope and rebellion on Goldster. …
Everything I Never Told You was Celeste Ng’s debut novel. It became an instant bestseller, when it was published in 2014, and has been described as a modern classic. One critic called it “A blistering study in grief and belonging that doubles as a gripping mystery of secrets buried in plain sight, [it] … ripples with emotion and insight. A novel of difference, the immigrant experience and the changing face of American society; an exquisitely realised work.” …
Fred Finn earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for being the world’s most travelled man – fifteen million miles (and still counting), with 718 flights of the supersonic Concorde airliner. Fred, now 83, boarded his first commercial flight in 1958 from the United Kingdom to America. The journey took nineteen hours with four stops. Thirty-eight years later he made the same flight on board Concorde in less than three hours. His work as an international businessman has taken him to 150 countries. …
On 22 July Lucinda will be doing a one-day workshop on ‘Wilkie Collins and his Circle’ at the Gerrards Cross Summer School. …
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
So began one of Dickens’s most famous novels, A Tale of Two Cities. It is a story which has stood the test of time, having been consistently ranked as one of the greatest novels of all time. From the contrasting landscapes of London and Paris to the profound questions of justice and sacrifice, it was a story in which Dickens poured his sharp wit, his political frustration, as well as his vivid descriptive power. …
Grab a cuppa and get to know actress, director and writer, Anni Domingo. Anni will be in conversation with author, Lucinda Hawksley, to discuss her work and career and offer a glimpse into her creative routine. …