6th Chiswick Book Festival Line-Up Announced | |||||
Will include Simon Mayo, Charles Spencer, Toby Young, series on 'Women at War'
The speakers at the 6th Chiswick Book Festival were announced this Friday (August 8th). Tickets are already on sale for the much-anticipated annual event from the Festival's official web site. As always, the Festival, a non-profit community event, will be based at St. Michael and All Angels. This year the event will run from Thursday September 11th to Monday 15th 2014. Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer, brother to Princess Diana and uncle to William and Harry, is due to talk at the Festival about a topic with some personal resonance to him - the Regicides of 1649, subjects of his new history Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared Execute Charles I.
This year's Festival will also see talks by a trio of famous Bryony Gordon will be talking about her recently-released memoir The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos, about her years as a young writer in London. Peter Oborne, chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph and acerbic critic of New Labour, will be talking about his latest work of cricketing non-fiction, Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan. More details of this year's programme, including the full list of speaker's at Chiswick Book Festival, can be viewed at www.chiswickbookfestival.net. August 11, 2014 |