Thursday 24 April 7.00pm:   Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour is celebrated as both a novelist and biographer.  Her novels include The Telling and The Reluctant Devil, four children’s books and a collection of short stories, A Madonna of the Island.  Her biographies include lives of Mary Shelley, Ottoline Morrell, Robert Graves and Henry James and the French racing driver, Hélène Delangle in the highly praised The Bugatti Queen.  Her most recent book is the extraordinary family memoir, In My Father’s House. 
 

Thursday 22 May 7.00pm:  Timberlake Wertenbaker

Timberlake Wertenbaker is an internationally renowned playwright, whose work includes Abel’s Sister, The Grace of Mary Traverse, the Olivier award-winning Our Country’s Good, The Love of the Nightingale, Three Birds Alighting on a Field, After Darwin and Galileo’s Daughter.  She has adapted and translated work by Marivaux, Maeterlinck, Anouilh, Pirandello, Sophocles and Euripides, written screenplays from Henry James and Edith Wharton and plays for radio and television.
 

Thursday 12 June 7.00pm:  Jonathan Miller

At South Hampstead High School for Girls, Maresfield Gardens
Jonathan Miller is a neurologist, theatre and opera director, writer, television presenter, humorist and sculptor.  After the ground-breaking Beyond the Fringe, he went on to make documentaries and films for television, was an associate director of Olivier’s National Theatre and has become one of the world’s leading opera directors.  He recently wrote and presented a BBC series on atheism.  Among his many publications is the 1972 Freud:  The Man, His World and His Influence.
 

Wednesday 16 July 6.30pm:  Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon is one of the country’s most popular and influential authors.  She has written more than twenty novels, including such modern classics as The Fat Woman’s Joke, Praxis, Puffball, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and The Cloning of Joanna May.  Her most recent novel is The Spa Decameron.  She has also written five collections of short stories, over fifty plays for radio, stage and television, including the pilot episode of Upstairs Downstairs, and an autobiography, Auto da Fay.

Thursday 18 September 7.00pm:  Amanda Craig

Amanda Craig is the author of five highly acclaimed novels, Foreign Bodies, A Private Place, A Vicious Circle, In a Dark Wood and Love in Idleness. She has been hailed in the Evening Standard as ‘the greatest novelist under the age of fifty’. Her new novel, Hearts and Minds, a sequel to A Vicious Circle and Love in Idleness, will be published this year.  She contributes regularly to the Daily Telegraph, Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman and is the children’s book critic for The Times.
 

Thursday 23 October 7.00pm:  Deborah Moggach

Deborah Moggach is a highly esteemed novelist, short story and screenplay writer.  Her novels include The Ex-Wives, Porky, The Stand-In, Final Demand, These Foolish Things, the best-selling Tulip Fever and, most recently, In The Dark.  Her TV adaptations include several of her own books, Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate, Anne Fine’s Goggle Eyes and The Diary of Anne Frank.  Her 2005 screenplay for Pride and Prejudice earned her a BAFTA nomination. 
 

The events will be hosted by Michael Arditti.

Michael Arditti is a novelist, short story writer and critic.  His novels include Unity, A Sea Change and the award-winning Easter.  He is currently the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud Museum London.