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Hosted over one long weekend in the grandeur of Harrogate’s Crown Hotel,
Raworth’s Literature Festival offers inspiring talks and stimulating debate. Socialise with fellow book lovers, relax in style, and soak up an eclectic programme designed to entertain and inspire.
Kicking off the festival is the Raworths Literary Lunch in association with Yorkshire Life, featuring
Ultimo lingerie founder
Michelle Mone. Listen to the ups and downs of her tumultuous career (and personal life) and enjoy a delicious three-course lunch!
Some big names in fiction are appearing this year:
Sadie Jones, whose prizewinning novel
The Outcast is being screened on the BBC soon, literary heavyweight
Louis de Bernieres with a timely romance of the First World War, and there’s a witty foray into Norse mythology from the multi-talented
Joanne Harris. Meanwhile, those with a taste for beautiful things will delight in the appearance of Ultimo founder and general superwoman
Michelle Mone at the Raworths Literary Lunch, followed by priestess of pottery
Emma Bridgewater, and
Guardian beauty guru
Sali Hughes.
From the world of politics, guests include long-serving Labour MPs
Dennis Skinner and
Alan Johnson, both of whom present their memoirs, and
Sam Delaney, whose book
Mad Men and Bad Men is a hugely entertaining behind-the-scenes tour of the election campaigns of the last four decades. Former
Newsnight journalist
Gavin Esler also throws light on how major players operate, revealing the leadership techniques of celebs from Bill Clinton to Angelina Jolie – many of whom he’s interviewed himself.
Other familiar faces from our screens are musicians
Noddy Holder of Slade and
Tracey Thorn of Everything But the Girl
. Tracey will focus on singing, but Noddy will speak on everything from showbiz and beyond, as will comedian
Dom Joly and the British television institution that is
Bill Oddie. Media darlings
Richard Madeley and
Judy Finnigan are back for a second year, discussing Judy’s new novel on the disappearance of a son while sailing. In an odd coincidence,
Countrywise presenter
Paul Heiney will speak about his moving journey to reconnect with his son who committed suicide, by going on a sailing trip they had planned together.
In the ever-muddied field of relationships,
Robert Sackville West reveals his family history that rivals the best in costume drama (and ties in with a new life of Vita Sackville West coming out this year) and Oxford muse
Theodore Zeldin, will explore our relationships to tell us how we can find the
Hidden Pleasures of Life. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s Story of Alice reveals how Alice Liddell’s relationship with Lewis Carroll influenced the stories we all know and love for the 150
th anniversary of
Alice in Wonderland.
2015 also marks the 150
th year since the death of Admiral Robert Fitzroy, whose revolutionary work on weather forecasting finally gave every Englishman something to talk about.
Peter Moore tells the swashbuckling story of how it became a science for the first time. Lastly, from gale forces to market forces, political economist
Will Hutton has a plan to change the way we do business for everyone’s benefit. As the
Guardian put it, it’s not socialism – just better capitalism. Come along and you could literally profit from his advice!
For further information and tickets visit:
www.harrogateinternationalfestivals.com or phone the
Box Office: 01423 562 30
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