Recent Events
Lucinda Hawksley talks to Andrew Dickens about the journeys made by her great great great grandfather in Europe, long before the arrival of high-speed rail, toured America (twice) and Canada and, before his untimely death, was planning a tour of Australia. …
For our final Book Club of 2024, falling appropriately on the last day of the year, we’ll be reading The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh. She is one of Britain’s leading emerging crime writers, whose books have sold more than 2 million copies around the world. We’ll be reading the first in Mackintosh’s latest series, featuring the Welsh detective Ffion Morgan. The Last Party was published in 2022 and went immediately into the bestseller lists. The series is currently being developed for TV. …
Join us and make your yuletide merry with mulled-wine, a mince pie and a talk by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, a descendant of Charles Dickens, as she reveals the fascinating tale of Christmas traditions during Queen Victoria’s reign. …
An Evening with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
Every holiday season, Ford’s Theatre brings Charles Dickens’s beloved tale A Christmas Carol to life on stage. This season, join us for a special online discussion with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, Dickens’s great-great-great-granddaughter and an accomplished author herself. …
On 12 November, Lucinda Hawksley will be joined on the Goldster Magazine Show by Laura Payne, host of the highly-acclaimed The Dreamboat Podcast. Laura, a psychotherapist with a passion for uncovering the mysteries of our minds, has become one of the leading voices in dream research. …
Lucinda will talk to Victoria about her most exciting adventures, most-admired women and favourite books – an evening that will be peppered with snippets of Dickensian drama and Victorian music! …
Those Goldster members who have been with us since 2020, will remember that one of our earliest Book Club discussions was about Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow. Four years on we are returning to discussing the work of this masterful modern writer. Rules of Civility was Towles’s debut novel, set in New York City in 1938. It follows the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old, who has the fabulous name of Katey Kontent. …
This illustrated talk, presented by Cindy Sughrue, Director of the Charles Dickens Museum, and Lucinda Hawksley, art historian, biographer, award-winning travel writer, and great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, explores Dickens’s lifelong fascination with the neighbourhood of St-Giles-in-the-Fields. …