Backlisted

Absolute joy to do the Backlisted podcast (***** in the Times) with Erica Wagner, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller. Book of choice was Antonia White’s Frost in May but lots of chat about the three sequel novels plus Antonia’s somewhat problematical life… Producer Nicky Birch does a truly amazing job with four talking Zoomers

https://www.backlisted.fm/

Agatha biog in the Telegraph in India

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/eye-on-england-getting-to-know-winston-churchill-from-the-darkest-hour-a-lockdown-poem-from-simon-armitage-referencing-kalidasa/cid/1773367?ref=opinion_home-template

Thank you to Amit Roy for this lovely elegant piece

Pubs!

https://buxtonfestival.co.uk/news-and-blog/lockdown-inspirations-victoria-dawson-book-festival-director

This praise for my memoir The Last Landlady is just gorgeous… thank you so much!

If we can’t go to the pub we can at least read about it, and my grandmother’s pub was one of the best.

Summer festivals…

I shall be talking about our old friends the Mitfords at:
Derby on 4th June
Chalke Valley on 25th June
Buxton on 14th July
Also about Agatha Christie at Felixstowe on 27th June