Join us for what is is sure to be a lively and stimulating panel discussion with bestselling writers Ellen Alpsten, Gill Paul and Patrick Gale, as we look at the women who dared to defy the conventions of their time to become who they were to find an important voice in current literature: 

Ellen Alpsten’s The Tsarina’s Daughter is the only novel about Elizabeth of Russia, the only surviving of Peter the Great’s fifteen children, who falls from unimaginable riches to rags before rising from rags to Romanov. As she takes what is hers, even if it comes at a terrible price, ‘she has not an ounce of nun’s flesh upon her’. 

Gill Paul’s masterful The Manhattan Girls witnesses the rise of Dorothy Parker to become the wittiest woman ever wielding a pen, shaking the brittle foundations of post WWI society further. The novel is dubbed, ‘The Sex in the City of the 1920s.’

Patrick needs no introduction – he is one of Britain’s best loved novelists and his latest book, Mother’s Boy was published to great acclaim earlier this year.