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An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell Maggie O’Farrell is a bestselling and award-winning author. She has written eight novels and in 2020 her novel Hamnet won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Maggie will be discussing her latest novel The Marriage Portrait with journalist Hannah Beckerman.

The Marriage Portrait brings to life Florence in the 1560s as Maggie tells the tale of Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de’ Medici. When Lucrezia’s sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d’Este, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust into the limelight. Alfonso quickly asks for her hand in marriage and Lucrezia faces court life for the first time.
Dates: Thu 01 Booking and More Information

Edinburgh Homecoming Show: Tales of Xenia Following a terrific run at this year Edinburgh Festival Fringe, we are delighted to offer a final opportunity to see Tales of Xenia, an original piece of verbatim theatre from a company of 12 brilliant Year 12 students. Dates: Wed 07 Booking and More Information

An Evening with Robert Harris Robert Harris is the author of fourteen bestselling novels including the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, The Ghost, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and more. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Act of Oblivion is his spellbinding new novel reimagining the biggest manhunt of the 17th century: the search for two Englishmen, charged in the killing of King Charles I…

Dates: Thu 22 Booking and More Information

Roper’s Rumpus An evening of entertainment & fun, raising money for our House charity, the Alanouwaly Salifou Sylla Foundation, supporting communities in Guinea, West Africa. Dates: Thu 29 Booking and More Information

Jeremy Bowen: The Making of the Modern Middle East, A Personal Story Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s International Editor has been covering the region since 1989. This is his account of the making of the modern Middle East.
In this new book, in part based on his acclaimed podcast, Bowen takes us on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line, their leaders, whether brutal or benign, and he explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control.
With his deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan's Turkey, Assad's Syria and Netanyahu's Israel and his long experience of covering events in the region, Bowen offers readers a gripping and invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it came to be and what its future might hold.
Jeremy Bowen is the BBC's Middle East Editor. He has reported from more than seventy countries, covering thirteen wars including those in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Chechnya, Somalia, the Middle East, Rwanda and former Yugoslavia. His previous books include Six Days, War Stories and The Arab Uprisings.
Dates: Thu 29 Booking and More Information