Greenwich Book Festival – The Art of Convivial Drinking by Alice Lascelles

It’s one of the busiest talks at Greenwich Book Festival. The El Dorado cocktail which each punter is greeted with as they enter the Queen Mary Court helps, but so does the vivacity and passion with which Alice Lascelles greets such a vivacious and passionate subject – drinking. Reading from her book The Art of Convivial

Greenwich Book Festival: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class by Selina Todd

Selina Todd has issue with the idea of referring to the working class as the ‘forgotten’ or ‘marginalised.’ They, like her when she was growing up and starting her role as a historian, are just living their lives. It’s these lives that she explores in The Rise and Fall of the Working Class. At Greenwich Book

Greenwich Book Festival

Reading is often thought of as a solitary activity, one person curled up with a book and entering into their own world of imagination and exploration. But stories are also something to be shared, words are meant for communication, and ideas brought up for discussion. Powerful and brilliant, there’s even more force in numbers, and