Recent Events
Talking with fellow author Victoria Panton-Bacon. Tickets are on sale now. New venue for this event. Please book early to avoid disappointment. …
A very special Inside Story brings together Goldster Conversations’ two founding hosts Lucinda and Humphrey Hawksley […] Today, the tables will turn with Lucinda asking Humphrey about his books and work. Why did he work his passage to Australia straight after leaving school? What drew him into journalism to become one of the BBC’s most respected foreign correspondents? …
Kate Griffin’s Fyneshade is an homage to Victorian gothic, offering readers the familiar tropes of the genre twisted into something darkly devious. When the anti-heroine, Marta, is banished to the wilds of Derbyshire to become a governess at a remote and crumbling mansion, murder ensues. …
Fran Hill is an author and retired English teacher from Warwickshire, England. She started publishing articles, features, short stories and poems in her 20s and wrote a monthly humorous column about education in the (then) Times Educational Supplement for several years. In her 50s, Fran tried a little harder and her first full-length book Miss, What Does Incomprehensible Mean? (SPCK, 2020) is a funny but poignant memoir about a year in her life as a teacher. …
Emma Darwin’s latest book, This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin, was described by Saga Magazine as ‘a refreshingly frank, witty, eloquent memoir-cum-biography’. The Times called her debut novel, The Mathematics of Love, ‘that rare thing, a book that works on every conceivable level’ and it’s probably unique in being nominated for both the Commonwealth Writers’ Best First Book, and the Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year Awards. …
In a recent Book Club discussion, Goldster members chose the novel we’ll be looking at this month. Pride and Prejudice was Jane Austen’s second novel (her first was Sense and Sensibility ). […] If you’ve never read the book before, now is the time the discover a much-loved classic; and if you think you know it well, you’ll be intrigued by how much you discover on re-reading it. …
Jenifer Roberts began writing biography shortly after her 50th birthday – almost by accident. She was a professional photographer, having trained and worked in the old way, spending many enjoyable hours in the darkroom. She says “There were two strands to my work, portraiture and landscape photography, and I worked almost entirely in black and white. …
Join Humphrey and Lucinda for our brand new segment: the Goldster Community Chat. This is your chance to meet other members and chat about your experiences of Goldster, as well as to talk about the Goldster Conversations events you’ve enjoyed and what you’ve learned from our Goldster interviews on PPG and the Book Club. …