Juliet Nicolson

Drawing on a wealth of first hand accounts, Juliet Nicolson's The Great Silence is a revelatory social history of post-First World War Britain. Rather than 'a land fit for heroes', the shock, stress and unacknowledged grief of troops and families reverberated through society. David Haycock's A Crisis ... (more)of Brilliance follows the intertwined lives of five artists - Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, Richard Nevinson and Stanley Spencer - whose careers were defined by the First World War. They discuss the impact of these tumultuous times with Juliet Gardiner, whose The Thirties, An Intimate History, takes the story of Britain one stage further.

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.