Speakers in order of appearance.
See website links for more information.
See also: A to Z of Speakers 2018
Cookbook Festival speakers
Pre-Festival events
Tuesday – Quiz Night at Fuller’s
Alan Connor (The Joy of Quiz)
Wednesday – Waterstones Local Authors Party
Amer Anwar (Brothers in Blood)
Emma Bache (Reading Between the Lines)
Alex Badita (Write Your Way to Happiness)
Louise Burfitt-Dons (The Missing Activist)
Jeff Capper (A Chiswick Tale)
Roland Chesters (Ripples from the Edge of Life)
Neil Elder (The Space Between Us)
Siobhan Ferguson (Pretty City London)
Kate Fulford (In-Laws and Outlaws)
Tanya Goodin (Stop Staring At Screens)
John Grigg (All Quiet in the Western Suburbs)
Jennifer Joyce (My Asian Kitchen)
Emma Juhasz (What Do Vets Do?)
Rhiannon Lambert (Re-Nourish)
Asia MacKay (Killing It)
Anne Patterson (Yes)
Ian Peacock (Bankers: From Pillars to Pariahs)
Jo Pratt (The Flexible Vegetarian)
Rose Sandy (The Decrypter)
Zoe Antoniades (Invincible Voices)
Thursday
Vanity Fair, Thackeray and Chiswick
Gwyneth Hughes (Vanity Fair screenplay)
John Sutherland (A Roundabout Manner)
Claudia Jessie – Amelia Sedley (Vanity Fair)
Torin Douglas – Chiswick Book Festival
Friday
Roger McGough (As Far As I Know, 80)
Cahal Dallat – chair, Roger McGough
Charles Spencer (To Catch a King)
Alan Rusbridger (Breaking News)
Robin Lustig – chair, Breaking News
Saturday
Greg Mosse – Creative Writing: workshop
Phoebe Morgan – Writing a Psychological Thriller: workshop
Willow Nash & Joe Bromley – Really Big Pants (Suddenly)
Louise Candlish (Our House)
Harriet Evans (The Wildflowers)
Clare Hastings (The House in Little Chelsea)
Cathy Rentzenbrink – How to Make Writing Part of your Life: workshop
Tim Marshall (Divided)
Maxine Mawhinney – chair, Divided
Caroline Slocock (People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me)
Julian Clary (The Bolds in Trouble)
Christiane Kerr (Crab and Whale)
Zoe Antoniades (Invincible Voices)
Jo Unwin – Climbing out of the Slush Pile: workshop
Gareth P Jones (The Daily Joker)
Kate Mosse (The Burning Chambers)
Bryony Gordon (Eat, Drink, Run
Nancy Tucker (That Was When People Started to Worry)
Jane Garvey – chair, Body Image
Vesna Goldsworthy (Monsieur Ka)
Emily Mayhew (A Heavy Reckoning)
Andy Grant (You’ll Never Walk)
Vanessa Berridge (Great British Gardeners)
David Shreeve – chair, Great British Gardeners
Les Hinton (The Bootle Boy: An Untidy Life in News)
James Rodgers – chair, The Bootle Boy
Gillian Walnes Perry (The Legacy of Anne Frank)
Caroline Raphael – chair, The Legacy of Anne Frank
Giles Milton (D-Day: The Soldiers’ Story)
Kate Morton (The Clockmaker’s Daughter)
Joanna Trollope (An Unsuitable Match)
Anthony Horowitz (Forever and a Day)
Ann Cleeves (Wild Fire)
John Torode (Sydney to Seoul)
Sunday
Mark Byford (The Annunciation: A Pilgrim’s Quest)
Catherine Pepinster (The Keys to the Kingdom)
Hajera Memon (Hats of Faith)
Stewart Lansley (It’s Basic Income)
Tom Levitt (The Company Citizen)
Dharshini David (The Almighty Dollar)
Misha Glenny (McMafia)
Kate Williams (Rival Queens)
Jessica Huie (Purpose)
Emma Bache (Reading Between the Lines)
Max Hastings (Vietnam)
Roland Philipps (A Spy Named Orphan)
Henry Hemming (M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster)
Charles Cumming (The Man Between)
Jane Thynne (Solitaire)
Bella Pollen (Meet Me in the In Between)
Will Wyatt (Oxford Boy)
Monday
Making Crime Pay
Amer Anwar (Brothers in Blood)
Amanda Robson (Guilt)