Stars at our Christmas feast
the Royal Shakespeare Company. A gifted writer, her debut novel, Miss Carter’s War, has just been published to acclaim.
With its echoes of Miss Jean Brodie, one critic described it as ‘a passionately written and compelling portrait of education in post-war Britain’.
With a long career as an actor and radio personality, Nicholas Parsons CBE is also the much-loved chairman of Just A Minute — the radio show he has hosted since the first programme went out in December 1967. His new book Welcome To Just A Minute! is described by regular contestant Paul Merton as ‘a joyous compendium of facts, fun and stories’.
Chris Tarrant is a household name, most notably as the frontman for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? His bestselling memoir Dad’s War: Father, Soldier, Hero is a moving tribute to the parent he wishes he’d known better. HOW TO BOOK Our lunch is held at the four-star Lancaster London Hotel, on Tuesday, December 9, from noon. There will be a three-course lunch with wine, preceded by a reception with cash bar at which guests can meet the authors and buy their books from the Daily Mail bookshop. Tickets cost £75 per person. Please send cheques made payable to the Lancaster London Hotel, with the name (s) of your guest(s) if any for the table plan, to Caroline Hamilton Fleming, 27 Baalbec road, London N5 1QN. Tickets will be sent out by return.