Speakers – A-Z 2018

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See also:
Speakers Day by Day
Waterstones Local Authors Party speakers
Cookbook Festival speakers


Amer Anwar
 (Brothers in Blood)
Zoe Antoniades (Invincible Voices)
Emma Bache (Reading Between the Lines)
Vanessa Berridge (Great British Gardeners)
Mark Byford (The Annunciation: A Pilgrim’s Quest)
Sue Cameron – chair, Margaret Thatcher and Me
Louise Candlish (Our House)
Julian Clary (The Bolds in Trouble)
Ann Cleeves (Wild Fire)
Alan Connor (The Joy of Quiz)
Charles Cumming (The Man Between)
Cahal Dallat – chair, Roger McGough
Dharshini David (The Almighty Dollar)
Torin Douglas  – chair, Vanity Fair, Thackeray and Chiswick
Harriet Evans (The Wildflowers)
Caroline Frost – chair, Ann Cleeves, From Vera to Shetland
Jane Garvey – chair, Body Image
Misha Glenny (McMafia)
Vesna Goldsworthy (Monsieur Ka)
Bryony Gordon (Eat, Drink, Run)
Andy Grant (You’ll Never Walk)
Clare Hastings  (The House in Little Chelsea)
Max Hastings  (Vietnam)
Henry Hemming (M)
Les Hinton (The Bootle Boy: An Untidy Life in News)
Anthony Horowitz (Forever and a Day)
Gwyneth Hughes (Vanity Fair screenplay)
Jessica Huie (Purpose)
Claudia Jessie – Amelia Sedley (Vanity Fair)
Gareth P Jones (The Daily Joker)
Christiane Kerr (Crab and Whale)
Stewart Lansley (It’s Basic Income)
Tom Levitt (The Company Citizen)
Robin Lustig – chair, Breaking News
Tim Marshall  (Divided)
Emily Mayhew (A Heavy Reckoning)
Maxine Mawhinney – chair
Lucy McDonald – chair
Roger McGough (As Far As I Know, 80)
Hajera Memon (Hats of Faith)
Giles Milton (D-Day:  The Soldiers’ Story)
Phoebe Morgan – Writing a Psychological Thriller: workshop
Kate Morton (The Clockmaker’s Daughter)
Kate Mosse (The Burning Chambers)
Greg Mosse – Creative Writing: workshop
Catherine Pepinster (The Keys to the Kingdom)
Gillian Walnes Perry (The Legacy of Anne Frank)
Roland Philipps (A Spy Named Orphan)
Bella Pollen (Meet Me in the In Between)
Caroline Raphael – chair, The Legacy of Anne Frank
Cathy Rentzenbrink – How to Make Writing Part of your Life: workshop
Amanda Robson (Guilt)
James Rodgers – chair, The Bootle Boy
Alan Rusbridger (Breaking News)
David Shreeve – chair, Great British Gardeners
Caroline Slocock (People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me)
Charles Spencer (To Catch a King)
John Sutherland (A Roundabout Manner)
Jane Thynne (Solitaire)
John Torode (Sydney to Seoul)
Joanna Trollope (An Unsuitable Match)
Nancy Tucker (That Was When People Started to Worry)
Jo Unwin – Climbing out of the Slush Pile: workshop
Julia Wheeler  – chair
Kate Williams (Rival Queens)
Will Wyatt  (Oxford Boy)
Willow Nash & Joe Bromley – Really Big Pants (Suddenly)

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