Virginia Nicholson

Tickets £10 The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt's new novel, is a panoramic saga of family secrets, set against the backdrop of a Bohemian, artistic, late Victorian and Edwardian world. It poses questions about war and peace, art and society and whether famous writers of children's books are doomed to damage ... (more)their offspring. The action moves from the Kent marshes, to Paris, Munich and the trenches of the Somme, while the vivid characters explore Fabianism, anarchy, free love, class differences and women's suffrage. Another tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of Possession. Virginia Nicholson's Among the Bohemians was inspired by her own background.

Tickets £10 Is it a help or a hindrance to write in the shadow of Bloomsbury? William Nicholson, Oscar nominated for his screen-plays Shadowlands and Gladiator, has published a new novel, The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life, set in Sussex and loosely based on an amatory episode in the life of his ... (more)wife,Virginia Nicholson, author - most recently of Singled Out - and grand-daughter of Vanessa Bell.What are the pitfalls of being a writing couple, how far can one go in turning fact into fiction? Brought up at Sissinghurst, Juliet Nicolson comes from a literary family. Her forthcoming book is The Great Silence.

Tickets £10. "Does the recent success of two vivid social histories, David Kynaston’s Austerity Britain and Virginia Nicholson’s Singled Out, herald the end of the blockbuster biography? Is the sound bite age more suited to books of personal testimony than to door-stopper, definitive ... (more)single lives? Singled Out tells the story of how two million women survived without men after WW1; Austerity Britain describes life for ordinary people post WW11. Their authors discuss the art of letting multiple individual voices illustrate an age. David Kynaston is an historian; Virginia Nicholson’s previous book was Among the Bohemians."