Cuckfield Literary Festival: Alex Grant

11.30am – 12.30pm

Upstairs at Bookfest
In September 1962, John Vassall, a clerk at the Admiralty in London, was exposed as a Soviet spy, having been blackmailed into handing over British defence secrets. Sex, Spies and Scandal covers this dramatic story, featuring a honey trap, espionage, jailed journalists, and a tabloid witch-hunt that nearly toppled Harold Macmillan’s government.

Alex Grant, a freelance writer and lecturer, and Tim Tate, a multi award-winning documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist, will discuss their books with Andrew Lownie, literary agent and author of Stalin’s Englishman.