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Books at Buxton

Box Office: 01298 72190

Books at Buxton SATURDAY 8 JULY 9am, St John’s Why do we love Handel’s masterpiece?

Jonathan Keates Messiah

2.30pm, PAC What really happened to Gerald Durell’s ‘Family and other Animals’

4.30pm, PAC How the changing position of women has shaped their dreams about men!

Carol Dyhouse Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire

2pm, PAC Soldier, war correspondent, Independent MP, the ‘man in the white suit’

Martin Bell War and the Death of News

Michael Haag

In conversation with Simon Seligman

The Durrells of Corfu

5pm, PAC Foreign Editor of the Sunday Times SUNDAY 9 JULY 10am, BOH BBC Coast presenter and geographer

Nicholas Crane The Making of the English Landscape

10.15am, BOH How corporate bad behaviour and government waste combine to cost us millions

Margaret Hodge

In conversation with Mike Neary

Called to Account

Tickets: £10.50 Pavilion Arts Centre (PAC), Gardens Marquee, St John’s Church £12.50 Buxton Opera House (BOH)

Peter Conradi

In conversation with Rod Dubrow-Marshall

Who Lost Russia: The New Cold War

MONDAY 10 JULY 10am, Marquee The story of women in the 20th Century, told through the clothes they wore

Lynn Knight The Button Box

2.15pm, PAC Intimate conversations with most famous manuscripts in existence

Christopher De Hamel Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

TUESDAY 11 JULY

WEDNESDAY 12 JULY

THURSDAY 13 JULY

9am, St John’s The move towards popularism in world politics

9am, St John’s Two experts talk about the constitutional position of the United Kingdom

9am, St John’s

Peter Hennessy & David Goodhart The Road to Somewhere

10.15am, PAC The Sotheby’s expert on the gullible rich and a multibillion dollar international art market

4.30pm, PAC The history of Venice’s Palazzo Venier dei Leoni through the lives of three of its residents

Judith Mackrell The Unfinished Palazzo

Peter Hennessy & Lord Lisvane Parliament and The Kingdom to Come

Philip Hook Rogues’ Gallery 10.15am, PAC Telling a riveting threeway spy story set in occupied France

Paddy Ashdown Game of Spies Sponsored by

2pm, Marquee

Jeremy Paxman In conversation with Peter Hennessy Sponsored by

A Life in Questions SOLD OUT

Sarah Churchwell In conversation with Rod Dubrow-Marshall

The Trump Era – Hopes and Fears for the US and the World

10.15am, BOH Showing us unexpected sides of the great figures of the day

Chris Patten First Confession

Leading authors with great stories to tell

Lucy Worsley At Home with Jane Austen Tuesday 11 July 7.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £17, £21 ‘The undisputed Queen of TV history’ – Guardian Dr Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, hugely popular writer, broadcaster and speaker, takes at new look at Jane Austen’s life from the perspective of her bi-centenary.

She tells Jane’s story through the rooms, spaces, possessions and places which mattered to her.

Dispelling the myth of the cynical, lonely spinster, Lucy offers us a witty and passionate woman of her time, who refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy.

David Starkey Henry VIII

Facing The Music – A Life In Musical Theatre

Sunday 16 July 7.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £17, £21

Patricia Routledge

Henry VIII is the only king whose shape you remember. He bestrides our history like a colossus and the decisions he took reverberate today. The Reformation was the first Brexit; his ministers devised the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty and his tumultuous personal life pitted religion against politics as brutally as in our own age of so-called Islamic State. David Starkey draws on his unique knowledge of Henry’s reign on the one hand, and his insights as a leading commentator on modern politics on the other, to illuminate both the Tudor age and our own.

Wednesday 19 July 7.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £17, £21

In conversation with Edward Seckerson

It is still one of the best-kept secrets in show business that Patricia Routledge trained not only as an actress but also as a singer and had considerable experience and success in musical theatre, both in this country and in the United States of America.

Her many awards include a Tony for her Broadway performance in the Styne-Harburg musical Darling of the Day and a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide.

Her one-woman show Come for the Ride toured the UK in 1988 and in 1992 she played Nettie Fowler in the highly acclaimed production of Carousel at the National Theatre. In this fascinating encounter with writer and broadcaster Edward Seckerson she recalls this very special part of her career with access to some rare and treasured recordings.

2pm, PAC How the British army has shaped – and been shaped by – world events

Richard Dannatt Boots on the Ground

10.15am, PAC A vivid portrait of the monarch and her reign

A N Wilson The Queen

10.15am, PAC Giving us access to some of the world’s most secretive societies

Federico Varese In conversation with Mike Neary

Mafia Life

4.30pm, PAC The story of the four men who dominated the Renaissance world

John Julius Norwich The Four Princes

2pm, BOH Lifting the lid on Westminster and the hidden workings of government In conversation with Mike Neary

David Rutland

In conversation with co-author, Emma Ellis

Sponsored by

Resolution SATURDAY 15 JULY 9am, St John’s An actor’s journey

Rhodri JeffreysJones We Know All About You

Julian Glover Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain

10am, Marquee The 11th Duke of Rutland on his colourful ancestors

Politics: Between the Extremes

9am, St John’s The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America

10am, PAC The enthralling story of perhaps the greatest engineer Britain ever produced

MONDAY 17 JULY

Nick Clegg

FRIDAY 14 JULY

SUNDAY 16 JULY

Michael Pennington King Lear in Brooklyn

2pm, BOH A 600-mile journey along the frontier of England and Scotland

Rory Stewart The Marches

2.30pm, PAC The former ambassador to the UN on the cost of war

2pm, PAC

Stephen Anderton In conversation with Simon Seligman

Jeremy Greenstock Lives of the Great Iraq Gardeners

10.15am, Marquee The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class

Tim Shipman All Out War

THURSDAY 20 JULY 10am, Marquee A verb’s-eye view of the English language

David Crystal The Story of Be

Sponsored by

TUESDAY 18 JULY 10am, Marquee The story of Sir Maurice Oldfield, the Derbyshire farmer’s son who rose to head of MI6

Martin Pearce In conversation with Matt Barlow

Spymaster

4.45pm, PAC Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

Kathryn Hughes Victorians Undone

2pm, PAC A unique insight into the daily life in the Church

Rev Richard Coles

In conversation with Mike Neary

Bringing in the Sheaves WEDNESDAY 19 JULY 9am, St John’s

Lois Kendall

In conversation with Rod Dubrow-Marshall

Life in a Cult

4pm, PAC Eating with Queen Victoria

Annie Gray The Greedy Queen

9pm, Pavilion Café, £20 The bestselling author and her band in a unique live experience

Joanne Harris #storytime

2pm, Marquee Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Protestant reformation

Peter Stanford Martin Luther

SATURDAY 22 JULY 9am, St John’s The making of a nature writer

Mark Cocker

In conversation with Mike Monaghan

Lightwood

FRIDAY 21 JULY

10.15am, PAC Taking on and beating the established political parties

Douglas Carswell In conversation with Gerry Foley

Rebel

9am, St John’s What drives young British Muslims to espouse jihad?

Raffaello Pantucci In conversation with Rod Dubrow-Marshall

We Love Death as You Love Life

10.15am, Marquee The story of the prime minister and her politics, of Britain and its re-shaping in the 1980s

4pm, Marquee The bestselling author of Chocolat

Joanne Harris

2pm, BOH The third volume of his bestselling autobiography

Different Class

In conversation with Rod Dubrow-Marshall

Sponsored by

Alan Johnson

In conversation with Simon Seligman

The Long and Winding Road

David Cannadine Margaret Thatcher

The Oldie Literary Lunch SUNDAY 23 JULY 12 noon, Old Hall Hotel, Tickets: £50

Featuring: The road back from a life of crime

Erwin James Redeemable

Looking at the most influential English country house architect and designer

Jeremy Musson Robert Adam: Country House Design, Decoration & the Art of Elegance The colourful life of a Westminster legend

Chris Mullin Hinterland

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