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Christina Soteriou is on a mission to make eating plants exciting. In Big Veg Energy, Christina shares 100 simple, tasty and nutritious recipes to be enjoyed by everyone – from long-time vegans to anyone simply looking to adopt more plant-based habits. With influences from Christina’s Cypriot roots, expect nourishing, vibrant food, including Spicy Mushroom Skewers with Peanut Lime Sauce, Sweet Potatoes with Tahini Butter Chickpeas, Roasted Courgettes with Lemony Whipped Tofu and Peanut Butter Cherry Jam Semifreddo. Always fresh and healthy, with advice for making sure meals are packed with protein and nutrients, Big Veg Energy has everything you need to move towards a plant-based lifestyle – including money-saving tips and debunked vegan myths. With chapters including Small Plates, Big Platters, Cosy Bowls, Baking Dish and Dessert Spoon, Christina makes eating plants easy, abundant and joyful, for whatever the occasion. Join us at Bell House where Christina will be discussing her new book and dishing out some tasty samples. Christina Soteriou is a chef, recipe writer and content creator who creates plant-based food for people who love to eat, inspired by the Mediterranean flavours of her Greek Cypriot heritage. Christina’s passion for food has made her determined to find creative and nutritious ways to make plant-based dishes as tasty as possible. Find her online @christinasots and at christina-soteriou.com Tickets: Standard ticket: £12 (includes a glass of wine/soft drink) Book tickets HERE A Village Books event. With thanks to Bell House.

Come to Village Books to meet Oliver Jeffers, author of the multi-million copy How to Catch a Star, where he’ll be signing copies of his new book Where to Hide a Star. Where to Hide a Star is a brand-new story from global picture book phenomenon Oliver Jeffers featuring his much-loved characters, the boy and the penguin. Once there was a boy who would often play hide-and-seek with his friends the star and the penguin. The star was always easy to find, but one day it went missing. So, the boy radioed the Martian for help and soon found himself on an exciting spaceship rescue mission to the North Pole! But there, he discovered that he wasn’t the only one who had always dreamed of having a star as a friend… Tickets: £15 (includes one signed copy of Where to Hide a Star, RRP £14.99). Entry for one family. Parents and siblings do not need to purchase a ticket. Buy tickets HERE

The Dulwich Village Christmas Stocking is back! Enjoy Christmas in the Village with music, festive food, a children's disco and a mystery stocking hunt. 11am: Festive music in the Square 2pm: Popchoir sings Christmas 2pm-4pm: Nutty's Children's Disco (St Barnabas Parish Hall) And lots more!

Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, working on some of the greatest cathedrals and churches in Britain, including the tower of Salisbury Cathedral and the dome of St Paul’s in London. Many churches are less well used than at any other time in their existence, and their quietness often gives the impression that they have always been sleepy and out of the way. For many centuries, they were the most prominent and busiest building in their community. They now offer as close an encounter with the past as it is possible to get. Church Going is a handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles, in which he reveals their fascinating histories, features and furnishings, from flying buttresses to rood screens, lichgates to chancels. Andrew Ziminski is a SPAB William Morris Craft Fellow, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and conservation advisor to the Salisbury Diocesan advisory committee for the care of churches. He is the author of The Stonemason: A History of Building Britain. ‘A beautiful book – in which curiosity, hand-skill and creativity combine in a hymn to craftsmanship, and vernacular and sacred architecture. Ziminski is a rare and wonderful voice’ Rory Stewart ‘Fascinating – a masterly guide to the detail and meaning but also to the glory of Britain’s now most endangered heritage’ Simon Jenkins In partnership with James Allen’s Girls’ School.

Join Paul Wood for a guided walk through Dulwich Village to celebrate the publication of the revised London’s Street Trees. Paul, London’s best known tree expert will lead a circular walking tour from Village Books (Dulwich Village). He’ll be pointing out the great diversity of trees planted on our streets, followed by a book signing at the bookshop. There will also be wine and nibbles on your return to the bookshop. The first guide to reveal the full, amazing variety of London’s street tree population, London’s Street Trees is now an agenda-setting, canonical work. The capital’s street tree population has continued to grow and gloriously diversify and the book is now in it’s third edition with new revisions and additions. Every year boroughs all over the capital are planting new species, from winter-flowering cherries to brighten up winter to Hackney’s shocking pink-leaved Toona sinensis. Tickets: £10 Book tickets HERE

Helen Castor returns after a ten-year hiatus with the chronicle of the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration – and back again. Richard had birthright on his side, and a profound belief in his own God-given majesty; beyond that, he lacked all qualities of leadership. Henry had everything Richard lacked, all the qualities of a sovereign, bar one: birthright. A king who was a tyrant was replaced by a king who was a usurper. Helen Castor tells this story of one of the strangest and most fateful relationships in English history. It is a story about power, and masculinity in crisis, and a nation brought to the brink of catastrophe and disintegration – and then brought back. At its heart, it is the story of two men whose lives were played out in extraordinary parallel, to devastating effect. Helen Castor is a medieval historian and a Bye-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her first book, Blood & Roses, a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association’s Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second book, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, was made into a BBC2 TV series. Her most recent book, Joan of Arc, was dubbed ‘a triumph of history’ (Guardian). Tickets: Standard ticket: £12 Book & ticket: £45 (includes a copy of The Eagle and The Hart, book RRP £35) Concession ticket: £10 Book tickets HERE

A glorious new edition of the original gem at the heart of bestselling food writer Diana Henry’s much-loved repertoire, Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons gathers together dishes that combine colourful, aromatic and perfumed ingredients to bring pleasure to your kitchen and an intoxicating whiff of warmer climes to your table. ‘An all-time classic. The book I’m happy to return to, over and over again. It’s an utter joy to cook from, as it is to dig deep into the stories’ Yotam Ottolenghi Diana Henry is one of the UK’s best-loved food writers. She has regular columns in the Sunday Telegraph and Waitrose Weekend, her work has appeared in BBC Good Food, House & Garden, delicious. and beyond, and her broadcast appearances include BBC Radio 4. Diana has won numerous awards for her journalism and books. Tickets: Standard ticket: £12 Book & ticket: £35 (includes a copy of Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons, book RRP £26) Concession ticket (under 18s): £10 Book tickets HERE

In 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel moved home to the UK. Having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he returned to find a very different country to the one he left. In Strangeland, Jon examines the new post-Brexit Britain with fresh eyes, as a native who’s been out but come back. With his characteristic wit and clarity, he unpicks the changes that have rendered his homeland almost unrecognisable from the country he once knew. Strangeland is a personal exploration of post-Brexit Britain and what it now means to be British, from the bestselling author, political insider, and presenter of the chart-topping podcast, The News Agents. Jon Sopel was the BBC’s North America Editor for 8 years, before launching The News Agents podcast with Emily Maitlis and Lewis Goodall in August 2022. During his time at the BBC, he covered the 2016 and 2020 elections and Trump’s White House at first hand, reporting for the BBC across TV, radio and online, as well as presenting the highly successful Americast podcast with Emily Maitlis and Anthony Zurcher. He is the author of If Only They Didn’t Speak English: Notes from Trump’s America, A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump’s White House and UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped All Others Tickets: Book & ticket: £35 (includes a copy of Strangeland, book RRP £22 Book tickets HERE Please note: Each ticket includes a copy of Strangeland (RRP £22). Jon is doing a very limited number of events to promote his book and we’re honoured he’s chosen Village Books and Alleyn’s School to be one of them. We are always mindful of the cost of our events but have to balance the requirements of publishers for events they allow us to host, which was to include a copy of the book with each ticket.

In January 2022, the Cellan-Jones-Coyle family said goodbye to their beloved elderly Collie Cross, Cabbage. Newly retired, Rory had become inseparable from her during daily pandemic walks which alleviated his Parkinson’s Disease symptoms. After a grief-stricken year, Rory and his wife Diane contemplated opening up their hearts again and came across a dog listing for ‘a kind girl who loves everybody and is just looking for her forever home’. Bright-eyed, big-eared and trembling, Sophie arrives in London from Central Europe in a van on 17th December. Rory holds the Romanian rescue in his arms, excited for their first walk together – unaware it is more than a year ahead. Sophie from Romania follows the journey of her adoption – from her battles with anxiety, to the joys of play and her first foray outside. This is the story of #SophieFromRomania, told in full for the first time. Rory Cellan-Jones was the BBC’s principal technology correspondent until 2021. He now writes an influential Substack column on medical innovation, tech and his beloved Romanian rescue dog, Sophie. Through this and his Twitter following @ruskin147 he spreads awareness of technological developments in the fields of medicine, health care and – more specifically – Parkinson’s. Together with Jeremy Paxman and several others he has begun a new podcast on Parkinson’s called Movers and Shakers. Tickets: Standard ticket: £12 Book & Ticket: £32 (Book RRP £22) Concession ticket (Under 18): £10 Book tickets HERE

In his most thrilling novel yet and the first in a series, William Boyd, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you to the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession… In Gabriel’s Moon, Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a tragedy: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing the changing landscapes in the grip of the Cold War. When he’s offered the chance to interview a political figure, his ambition leads him unwittingly into a web of duplicities and betrayals. As Gabriel’s reluctant initiation takes hold, he is drawn deeper into the shadows. Falling under the spell of Faith Green, an enigmatic and ruthless MI6 handler, he becomes ‘her spy’, unable to resist her demands. But amid the peril, paranoia and passion consuming Gabriel’s new covert life, it will be the revelations closer to home that change the rest of his story. William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE. Over a glittering forty year career, William Boyd has sold over 2 million books through TCM, winning countless awards in the process. Tickets: Standard ticket: £12 Book & ticket: £30 (book RRP £20) Concession ticket (under 18): £10 Book tickets HERE

Rick Stein is back with a major new BBC Two tv series and book, Rick Stein’s Food Stories, a celebration of the best of British food and the way we eat now. Rick Stein’s Food Stories is a glorious collection of over 100 new recipes that celebrate the flavours, ingredients and stories of modern Britain. Rick travels every region of the British Isles to include not only traditional favourites but also his twist on new dishes that have become part of our national cuisine like Kubo pork belly adobo, Arros roja, Pnaeer jalfrezi and Chicken katsu curry. Join Village Books and Alleyn’s Schools Enterprises for an evening with Rick Stain and Good Housekeeping’s Gaby Huddart where he’ll be discussing his delicious and inspiring journey through Britain’s joyous and every-changing food scene. Tickets: Standard ticket: £15 Book & ticket: £40 (includes a copy of Rick Stein’s Food Stories, book RRP £28) Concession ticket (under 18s): £12 Book tickets HERE

Stand-up comedian Jenny Eclair was the first woman to win the Perrier Award – the UK’s top comedy award – in 1995. Jokes, Jokes, Jokes is Jenny’s very funny memoir about elbowing her way into the male dominated world of comedy. Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy’s wife?) sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper), Jenny’s comedy career took off via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery, waitressing and not really having a clue about anything. This was a world before microphones, mobile phones, before everyone gave up smoking or started taking coke. Jenny Eclair was on the comedy circuit before there really was a comedy circuit and was the first woman to win the Perrier Award along the way. Still gigging to sell-out crowds forty years later, Jenny Eclair’s memoir charts her childhood, her career and the changing face of women in comedy, all told with hilarious brilliance. Jenny is well known for her starring role on BBC 1’s Grumpy Old Women which ran for three series and was then adapted into four live shows touring across the UK and Australia, all of which Jenny co-wrote and starred in. Continuing her partnership with Judith Holder, producer of Grumpy Old Women, Jenny co-hosts the podcast Older and Wider the podcast for people who don’t know what a podcast is, a weekly ramble about life, with additional swearing. She is also the writer of the much-loved BBC Radio Four Little Lifetimes monologues which ran for seven series. Tickets: Standard ticket: £15 Book & ticket: £35 (includes a copy of Jokes, Jokes, Jokes, book RRP £25) Special offer valid until Tuesday 3rd September. Book tickets HERE

Join Village Books & Alleyn’s Schools Enterprises for an evening with bestselling and multi-award-winning author, Meera Sodha. Dinner: 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes for the most important meal of the day is the new book from the Guardian columnist, and is a fresh and joyful celebration of the power of a good meal. Discover vibrant, easy-to-make vegetarian and vegan main dishes bursting with flavour, including baked butter paneer, kimchi and tomato spaghetti and aubergines roasted in satay sauce. There are also ludicrously delicious desserts, such as coconut and cardamom dream cake and bubble tea ice cream, and versatile and surprising side dishes, including salt and vinegar potato salad and asparagus and cashew thoran. From quick-cook recipes to one-pan wonders, Dinner is the essential companion for the most important meal of the day. Meera Sodha is a cook and a food writer, renowned for her Asian-inspired, meat-free recipes. She writes the Guardian’s weekly ‘The New Vegan’ column, and is the author of three best-selling cookbooks: Made in India, Fresh India and East. She cooks, writes and lives in London with her husband and daughter. Tickets: Standard ticket: £12 Book & ticket £37 (includes a copy of Dinner, book RRP £27) Concession ticket (under 18s): £10 Book tickets HERE

Village Books and Alleyn’s Schools Enterprises are delighted to host an evening with three-Michelin starred chef Pierre Koffmann celebrating a new edition of his award-winning cookbook Memories of Gascony With recipes and reminiscences from his grandparents’ home in rural Gascony, this is an intimate account of school holidays spent on the farm helping his grandfather to harvest and hunt, and learning to treasure seasonality, simplicity and the best ingredients at his grandmother’s side. The recipes stand the test of time and speak to the food tastes and trends of today. While you read the charming stories of everyday life on the farm, you’ll devour the cuisine as you go along. “If you do not own a copy of Pierre Koffmann’s glorious Memories of Gascony your cookbook collection is not complete. Brilliant to read; even better to cook from.” Jay Rayner Pierre Koffmann has been at the heart of fine cuisine in Britain for nearly fifty years. After working as a young chef in France, Koffmann arrived in London in 1970 to work under Michel and Albert Roux at Le Gavroche and then the Waterside Inn. Within six years of opening, La Tante Claire had its third Michelin star. Between them Koffmann’s protégés now boast over twenty Michelin stars in their own right. Tickets: Standard ticket: £12 Book & ticket: £35 (includes a copy of Memories of Gascony, book RRP £35) Concession ticket: £10 Book tickets HERE

Outside In: A Year of Growing & Displaying is the first book from celebrated garden designer, popular Instagrammer and advocate of English cottage style, Sean A Pritchard, showing how to plan your garden so you can display flowers and foliage in your home through the year. From the cheery joy of early spring daffodils to the velvety richness of late-summer dahlias, the deep glow of golden autumn leaves to the optimism of latewinter catkins, Sean explains how to grow, harvest, and arrange an abundance of nature’s treasure – no matter the size of your plot or your level of horticultural experience. ‘I devoured this sumptuously British step-by-gorgeous-step guide to when to seed, plant and pluck in a single sitting.’ – Richard E. Grant ‘As soon as I opened this book, I couldn’t stop racing through the exquisite photos and words which invite and transport you into the author’s beautiful home, another world with details and ideas that you want to bring back with you. There’s a touch of magic on every page… this book is utterly beautiful and totally inspirational, written in a way that fills the reader with confidence at the same time as enchanting them.’ – Jo Thompson Sean A Pritchard has designed two show gardens for Macmillan Cancer Support, including the Macmillan Legacy Garden at the prestigious RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival in 2022. He divides his time between London and Somerset – where he lives in a 300-year-old farm labourer’s cottage on the Mendip Hills, overlooking the Somerset Levels. He applies much of his garden design philosophy to the decoration ofthe cottage, which he shares on his popular Instagram account, @sean_anthony_pritchard Tickets: Standard ticket: £12 (includes a glass of wine/soft drink) Book tickets HERE

Clare Chambers, award-winning author of Small Pleasures is back with a new novel exploring love, family, and the joy of freedom. Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with Gil: a charismatic, married doctor. One spring afternoon they receive a call about a disturbance from a derelict house not far from Helen’s home. A thirty-seven-year-old man called William Tapping, with a beard down to his waist, has been discovered along with his elderly aunt. It is clear he has been shut up in the house for decades, but when it emerges that William is a talented artist, Helen is determined to discover his story. Shy Creatures is a life-affirming novel about all the different ways we can be confined, how ordinary lives are built of delicate layers of experience, the joy of freedom and the transformative power of kindness. Clare Chambers’s first job after university was working for Diana Athill at André Deutsch. Her first novel Uncertain Terms was published in 1992 and she is the author of eight other novels. Small Pleasures, her first work of fiction in ten years, became a word-of-mouth hit on publication, was selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers book club and for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. It also won Pageturner of the Year Award at the British Book Awards 2022 and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021. Tickets: Standard ticket: £12 Book & ticket: £30 (includes a copy of Shy Creatures, book RRP £22) Concession ticket (Under 18s): £10 Book tickets HERE

Robert Harris is back with a new masterpiece… Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents – and suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that will alter the course of political history. Seamlessly weaving fact and fiction in a way that no writer does better, Precipice is the thrilling new novel from Robert Harris. Robert Harris is the author of fifteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator – Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep, V2 and Act of Oblivion. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. Tickets: Standard ticket: £12 Book & ticket: £32 (includes a copy of Precipice, book RRP £22) Concession ticket (Under 18) : £10 Book tickets HERE

Meet multi-million-copy selling, award-winning author (and former Children’s Laureate) Cressida Cowell, creator of the How to Train Your Dragon (also a DreamWorks film and TV franchise) series. Cressida will be signing her latest bestselling book, Which Way Round The Galazy, and her other books, too. Bring along your own sketchbook for Cressida to see, and get a free sticker sheet with each book of Which Way Round The Galaxy. No tickets required!

Come and celebrate the 25th birthday of the Gruffalo with a special day of events! The Gruffalo will be touring the country and will be at our bookshop on Sunday 19th May from 2pm to 5pm. Meet the Gruffalo and get your photo taken! Our brilliant face-painter will be here doing free face painting from 1.30om and we’ll have fabulous free helium balloons. There will also be 15% off children’s books all day. Plus, we’ll have a special birthday cake to wish the Gruffalo a very Happy Birthday! No tickets required!

The fantastically funny and relatable Lottie Brooks series, written and illustrated by number one children’s bestseller Katie Kirby, is filled with first experiences, friendship fails, embarrassing moments and plenty of laughs. And so is this event! Can Lottie get through term without leaving chaos in her wake, and with her BFFs intact? Join Katie to find out – and don’t forget your notebook and pens as there will be draw-along fun for all! Tickets: £8 (including Eventbrite fee) Book tickets HERE A Village Books and Dulwich Festival event

Join us for an evening with bestselling author and entrepreneur, Ella Mills. Ella is a champion of plant-based living. She started the popular recipe website, deliciouslyella.com, before releasing a #1 app and writing the fastest selling debut cookbook in the UK, Deliciously Ella, which was named Amazon’s biggest-selling book in the year of publication and was a New York Times bestseller. She has since released a further five bestselling books and built a social media audience of approximately 4 million people. In 2015 Ella started working with her husband, Matthew Mills, and together they have launched over 100 plant-based food products into 10,000+ stores across the UK and globally, with customers including Tesco, Ocado, Morrisons, Waitrose, Holland and Barrett, Boots, Sainsburys and more. With a team of almost 50 people, they’re running one of the fastest growing food brands in the UK. They have also opened a London restaurant, Plants, dedicated to showing the breath of plant-based cooking. Ella will be chatting to journalist Hannah MacInnes. Tickets: £15 (plus Eventbrite fee) Book tickets HERE A Village Books and Dulwich Festival event

What’s the connection between Shakespeare and maths? A lot, as it turns out! Shakespeare grew up in a time of remarkable mathematical innovation. From astronomy to probability, music to multiplication, new mathematical ideas were taking off – and much of this was reflected in his work. In this highly engaging book, award-winning author Rob Eastaway explores the surprising and entertaining ways that maths and numbers crop up in Shakespeare’s plays. Find out how Tudors multiplied, why Shakespeare never ended a line with the word orange, and why dice-playing was a serious hazard for the unwary. With historical asides about games, optics, astronomy, music and magic, you will never think about maths, history or Shakespeare the same way again. Tickets: £12 (Plus Eventbrite fee) Book tickets HERE A Village Books and Dulwich Festival event

From the popular tech journalist and Movers and Shakers podcaster, also known across the world for documenting his journey with rescue dog #SophiefromRomania, comes a moving memoir in search of the truth behind his isolated childhood and absent father. Rory Cellan-Jones knew he was the child of a love affair between two BBC employees. But until his mother died and he found a file labelled ‘For Rory’ he had no idea of the extent of their relationship, and why his unconventional childhood had so tested the bond between him and his mother. ‘For Rory,’ his mother had written on the file, ‘in the hope that it will help him understand how it really was …’ Tickets: £12 (including Eventbrite fee) Book tickets HERE A Village Books and Dulwich Festival event

Join us for an evening of murder and mystery as local crime writers Abigail Dean, Christie Watson and Susan Allott talk about how they keep the reader guessing. Three best-selling writers explore how secrets and lies from the past drive dilemmas and betrayal in the future. Abigail Dean is the author of bestselling Girl A; her new novel is Day One which follows the after-effects of a tragic shooting in a small community. Christie Watson, is the author of The Language of Kindness and was a nurse in the NHS for 20 years. Moral Injuries is her debut crime novel. Susan Allott is author of The House on Rye Lane, a taut thriller following the lives of three different inhabitants of a house in Peckham. Tickets: £12 (plus Eventbrite fee) Book tickets HERE A Village Books and Dulwich Festival event

2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire’s influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound: from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to nearly 1 in 3 driving on the left side of the road, and even shaping the origins of international law. Yet Britain’s idea of its imperial history and the world’s experience of it are two very different things. ­­ In Empireworld, award-winning author and journalist, Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain. Travelling the globe to trace its international legacies – from Barbados and Mauritius to India and Nigeria and beyond – Sanghera demonstrates just how deeply British imperialism is baked into our world. And why it’s time Britain was finally honest with itself about empire. ‘A remarkable and important work – one that is finely judged, beautifully written and not just a welcome corrective but a book for our times. This is essential reading. – Peter Frankopan Tickets: £12 (plus Eventbrite fee) Buy tickets HERE A Village Books and Dulwich Festival event