Thursday 11th October

The Chester Grosvenor Literary Lunch

Chester Grosvenor Hotel
12 noon for 12.45pm
£44 ( includes welcome drinks and three-course lunch with wine and coffee)

Join us at our fabulous annual Literary Lunch in the luxurious surroundings of the Chester Grosvenor Hotel & Spa in historic Eastgate. With speakers as scintillating as the food, each of our celebrity guest authors has a very different and entertaining story to tell – and there’s a chance to meet them afterwards at the book signings.

Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall

Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall gets back to basics in The Good Granny Cookbook. The recipes are not aimed at grannies but at those who, while knowing their mascarpone from their manchego, have no idea how to make white sauce, kedgeree, rhubarb and custard and all those other nostalgic classic dishes that grandmothers were famous for. A book to inspire a whole new generation of home cooks, super-grans or not.

Julian Clary

Julian Clary, one of Britain’s best loved entertainers, presents Murder Most Fab: a darkly hilarious tale about smooth, mega-successful TV presenter Johnny Debonair, intent on writing a novel. Along the way the budding author becomes involved in a series of murders but this isn’t fiction: the story JD is about to unleash is a dark truth that could never be revealed in his memoirs.

Kate Williams

Kate Williams reveals England’s Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton which draws on new documents and letters, and follows the courtesan’s dramatic journey from a blacksmith’s cottage in Neston to the Royal Court of Naples, from London brothels to the Napoleonic wars. Muse and mother, wife and mistress, celebrity and villain, victim and survivor: Emma Hamilton was one of the most remarkable women in British history.

Jenny Colgan

Jenny Colgan, one of our wittiest and cleverest contemporary novelists sets up Operation Sunshine. Evie needs a good holiday and a break from work. So when her employers invite her to attend a conference in the South of France, she can’t believe her luck. At last the chance to mix with the rich and glamorous and party under the stars. It’s certainly the holiday of a lifetime – but not quite in the way that Evie imagines.