We are delighted to welcome back the Essex Book Festival. We have a wonderful selection of Authors

12pm Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Jobs for the Girls

An important piece of social history which brings the British workplace in the second half of the twentieth century to life by the Sunday Times bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins.  A brilliant and accessible new history of women’s lives in the workplace, using interviews with women from a variety of industries across the UK. The author paints a vivid portrait of young women setting out into their working lives in Britain.

2pm Estelle Paranque, Thorns, Lust and Glory

Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. How did this courtier’s daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage?  Join Estelle Paranque, historian and acclaimed author of Blood, Fire and Gold: Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, for a fascinating new perspective on Tudor history’s most enduring story. This event will include an audience Q&A.

4pm Simon Heffer, Sing As We Go

The fourth and final volume in Simon Heffer’s critically-acclaimed sequence of books that chart the history of Britain in the century from the accession of Queen Victoria to the outbreak of the Second World War. This book explores the politics of the period, and puts such moments of national turmoil as the General Strike of 1926 and the Abdication Crisis of 1936 under the microscope. And it probes the deep divisions that split the nation.

All 3 events will include an audience Q&A. After the event there will be an opportunity to get your book signed by the author.

Tickets cost £14 per author or all three events for £36 (Discount will be automatically applied at checkout when tickets for all 3 events are booked)

Your ticket includes access to Layer Marney Tower and gardens, open from 11am to 5pm.