The bank holiday weekend has been very busy for our authors. Here’s all that they’ve been up to!
1) Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
As the anniversary of the sinking of Titanic approaches, Hugh Brewster’s Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage, the story of the first class passengers of the Titanic, has been identified as one of the key new texts on the famous ship. The book has been called ‘beautifully written’ and ‘a comprehensive portrait of the movers and shakers of Gilded Age culture’
2) Peter Hain and David Lipsey at the Hay Festival
The line-up for the Hay festival was announced this weekend, with Peter Hain, author of Outside In, and David Lipsey, author of An Autobiography, scheduled to speak together at an event called ‘Forty Years Is A Long Time in Politics’.
3) James Delingpole, coffee and markets
James Delingpole, author of Watermelons, was joined by Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry on Coffee and Markets to discuss arguments for and against global warming, and a different and better approach to science.
4) Shana Pearlman on the ruin of American politics
Over at Dale & Co., Shana Pearlman, author of The Palin Effect, argues that screenwriter and producer, Aaron Sorkin, is a ‘mediocre merchant of mawkish, overwrought poppycock’, and has ruined American politics as a result.
5) Down time with Kerri Sackville
Was the extended weekend not enough? Kerri Sackville’s When My Husband Does The Dishes (He usually wants sex!) was recommended as the perfect accompaniment to some ‘down-time’ in the Sunday Times’ Style magazine.
6) The Bram Stoker Awards
Pictures are now available for the Bram Stoker Awards, at which our author, Dacre Stoker – great grand nephew of Dacre Stoker and co-editor of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker – presented the award for vampire novel of the century.