Some great online author events with Village Books

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We've got some great online non fiction events coming up at Village Books including Gyles Brandreth on Prince Philip, Booker Award winning author Douglas Stuart, and a fascinating biography fo Robert Maxwell too!

The Orwell Prize Longlist Conversation: Douglas Stuart and Madeleine Bunting -- Tuesday 11th May, 7pm, tickets from ?8. Join Douglas Stuart, Madeleine Bunting and The Orwell Foundation as they discuss the political implications behind their Orwell-Prize longlisted work.

Prince Philip by Gyles Brandreth -- Tuesday 18th May, 7pm, tickets from ?8. Philip: The Final Portrait is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ? the longest?serving consort to the longest?reigning sovereign in British history. Building upon Gyles Brandreth?s acclaimed 2004 book Philip and Elizabeth, Portrait of a Marriage, this extraordinary account is fully revised, presenting new information about the last twenty years alongside previously unpublishedroyal correspondence. Written with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years, it is testament to an enduring friendship.

Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston-- Monday 24th May, 7.30pm, tickets from ?8. In February 1991, the media mogul and former MP Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. Crowds lined the quayside to watch his arrival, taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand and children asked for his autograph. But just ten months later, Maxwell disappeared from the same yacht off the Canary Islands, only to be found dead in the water soon afterward. What went so wrong? In this gripping book, John Preston delivers the definitive account of Maxwell?s extraordinary rise and scandalous fall.

TICKET LINK: www.village-books.co.uk/events