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Flash Fiction Competition 2021

This year’s competition is now closed and we had lots of amazing entries. You will be able to read the winning entries here once the judging is complete and we’ve announced the winner on Thursday 14th. This year the theme was The Prime of Life Is it all that it is […]

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Simon Mayo

SIMON MAYO One of our best loved radio presenters is appearing at TAL to talk about his debut pacey modern-day thriller with a political edge, Knife Edge.   It is 6.45am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 27 minutes, seven people have been murdered.  In a series […]

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Andrew Lownie

ANDREW LOWNIE Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie makes a welcome return to TAL with his much-awaited new book, Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile.   In this explosive book he examines the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept […]

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Roger Moorhouse

ROGER MOORHOUSE Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2020, this is the first history of the Polish war for almost half a century.  The war began on 1 September 1939, when German tanks, trucks and infantry crossed the Polish border, and the Luftwaffe began bombing Poland’s […]

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All To Play For

Matt Rogan / Kerry Potter – All to Play For A topic that will resonate with many following the recent devastation of the pandemic.  Sport one of our few remaining collective rituals, is entering its golden age – an acknowledged powerful force for good which will positively impact our lives […]

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Alison Weir and Sarah Gristwood

Alison Weir and Sarah Gristwood – Dangerous Liaisons Love and The Tudors Two of our finest historians come together to discuss Love and the Tudors, historical fact versus historical fiction. In her latest book, Katherine Parr, the sixth and last of Henry VIII’s wives, Alison Weir shows a woman torn […]

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Ian Dunt

Ian Dunt – How To Be A Liberal Photography and post production by Hollin Jones, www.grandcentralaudio.com   Told in his inimitable and rip-roaring prose How To Be A Liberal tells the story of liberalism, in a soaring narrative that stretches from the battle fields of the English Civil War through the […]

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Robert McCracken Peck

Robert McCracken Peck – The Natural History of Edward Lear A beautifully illustrated exploration of Edward Lear’s little-known career as a natural-history artist, with a foreword by David Attenborough.   Edward Lear (1812-1888) is best known today for his witty limericks and endearing nonsense verse.  But the celebrated author of […]

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Simon Heffer – Henry ‘Chips’ Channon

Simon Heffer – Henry ‘Chips’ Channon Born in Chicago in 1897, Henry ‘Chips’ Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely rich Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958.   His diaries are elegant, gossipy and bitchy […]

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