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Events are back!

Chiswick Book Festival

11:15am: Murder She Wrote: Women and Crime – Louise Candlish, Nancy Tucker & Charlotte Philby
Writers Louise Candlish (The Heights), Nancy Tucker (The First Day of Spring) and Charlotte Philby (The Second Woman) talk about their chilling crime novels. Chaired by Joan Smith.
St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, £8

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Secrets and Spies

Mick Herron, Charlotte Philby, and Simon Conway discuss their novels at the crime-writing festival in Stirling, Scotland. Saturday 18 September 2021, 1.30 – 2.30pm.
Venue: Albert Halls
Tickets: £10, buy tickets here

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John le Carré: Last word

The book world was abuzz when it was announced that master spy writer John le Carré had left a last unpublished complete novel, Silverview, to be released after his death. In an exclusive Festival event in what would have been le Carré’s 90th birthday week, we bring together his long-time literary agent and friend Jonny Geller, leading spy writer (and often referred to as the heir of le Carré) Mick Herron and next generation spy writer Charlotte Philby to celebrate Silverview’s publication and reflect on a remarkable life in letters. Chaired by Clare Clark.

Venue: The Times and The Sunday Times Forum is situated on the Montpellier Gardens site of The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival in the heart of Cheltenham (GL50 1UW).
Book tickets: Tickets available here from 10 September 2021

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Bloomsbury masterclass: plotting and pacing

12th May 2020 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm

£25.00

On the evening of 12 May, I’ll be hosting a two-hour masterclass on the intricacies of successful plot development, as part of Bloomsbury’s Writers & Artists programme. Tickets are £25 and half of the cost goes directly to Book Aid International, a fantastic charity providing books and education to those who can’t readily access it. Please come along!

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Books by the Beach, Scarborough 2020

On Friday 24 April 1pm, I’ll be on a panel with acclaimed crime writers BA Paris and James Runcie, hosted by FT and Guardian book critic Barry Forshaw. Other authors on the bill include Maggie O’Farrell and Louise Doughty.

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Sat 25 April, 10:00 – 16:00. Guildford Cricket Pavilion, £45 (includes light lunch and refreshments)

  • A Mini Festival in a Day

  • Eight Bestselling Authors

  • New Venue

Spring Readers’ Day is back! Following the success of last year’s Spring Readers’ Day we are pleased to announce our second spring event with Sunday Times bestselling authors, Fern Britton and Susan Lewis heading the line-up.
A regular, and extremely popular, feature of the main Festival for many years Readers’ Day is a mini festival in a day with up to eight authors, including debut fiction writers and established novelists, talking about their lives, their inspirations and their latest projects. There is also an opportunity to meet the authors and have books signed.
A light lunch and refreshments are included, and at the end of the day, there will be a Goodie Bag, including a free book, to take home. The venue is The Pavilion at Guildford Cricket Club which offers free parking on site and easy access from the main train station and local bus routes.
Our host for the day is author and journalist, Fanny Blake.

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Lucy Foley in conversation with Charlotte Philby

Goldsboro Books in Covent Garden is partnering with The Times and Sunday Times Crime Club, to host this exciting event with No.1 bestselling author Lucy Foley and the author of The Most Difficult Thing (editor’s pick on Radio 4’s Open Book), Charlotte Philby.
Lucy will be discussing her new book, The Guest List, and reflecting on the incredible success of her previous novel, The Hunting Party. The hour-long talk, taking place will begin at 6.30pm, with the opportunity for guests to buy all three books, and have them signed by their author, afterwards.

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Author talk at Sutton Central Library

Saturday 25 January 2020: 2 – 3pm at Sutton Central Library, Saint Nicholas Way, Sutton SM1 1EA

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BBC Arts: Novels That Shaped Our World

23 November 2019: A panel of writers gather at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library for this BBC Arts event to discuss the novels that shaped our world.

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Author talk at The National Archives

5 November 2019: Join author, journalist and broadcaster Charlotte Philby as she discusses her debut novel, The Most Difficult Thing (2019) with Erica Wagner, and talks about her forthcoming book, spy fiction and influences upon her writing.

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Author talk at Derby Festival

26 October 2019: In conversation with author Sarah Ward about my work as a journalist and novelist, as part of the Derby Book Festival.

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Bloody Scotland: Spy Sisters

Espionage was once a largely male preserve but things are changing. Meet four spy novelists whose ability to layer intrigue upon international incident isn’t bounded by gender. Panelists include Sarah Armstrong, Asia Mackay, Charlotte Philby and Manda Scott.

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Women & Work

To celebrate the launch of a new family-oriented workspace in London Fields, East London, from Second Home we hosted a panel talk about all things women and work.

Taking place on Saturday October 1st between 4-6pm the talk was led by editor-in-chief Charlotte Philby, in conversation with the ‘foghorn of flexible working’ Anna Whitehouse of Mother Pukka, Phanella Mayall Fine and Alice Olins the founders of Step Up Club, and Mariam Molar founder of Mentor MatchHER, a unique initiative that connects women in business with business mentors.

The event, which sold out, was held in a giant yellow inflatable dome, with all proceeds going to Gingerbread charity for single families.

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Image: 'Belize Boys' by Shaniqwa Jarvis

How We Raise Boys

Motherland and Riposte Magazine joined forces to bring you a panel debate, on the subject of how we raise boys followed by brunch by Hoi Polloi, at London’s Ace Hotel. Speakers included WAH Nails founder Sharmadean Reid, spoken word poet James Massiah, Motherland founder Charlotte Philby, and chair of Action Aid, Margaret Casely-Hayford.

The talk, on Sunday 19 July 2015, explored what it means to be a boy in 2015, and how we as parents and a society can help grow our sons to be the best versions of themselves. It was spawned from an essay written by Charlotte Philby for Riposte #4, on the issue of raising boys – inspired by this quote from Nigerian feminist: “We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”

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