We had the most wonderful conversation with Iranian food writer and photographer Saghar Setareh at our Book Club, talking about her gorgeous cookery book Pomegranates & Artichokes. She spoke of her Iranian childhood, her move to Italy at the age of 22, her training as an artist and her journey to the world of food and food photography. We talked of migration and how food and recipes migrate with people, of the richness of the cultures of Iran, the Levant and Italy and the joys of cooking.

Join Silk Road Slippers founder Alexandra Pringle in conversation with Women’s Prize-winning author Kamila Shamsie for a unique insight into the art of editing.

We hosted Osman Yousefzada discussing his highly acclaimed childhood memoir The Go-Between, winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and described by Stephen Fry as ‘one of the great childhood memoirs of our times’.

Brigid Keenan is a woman who has lived a million lives and who has written memoirs that make you nearly die of laughter.

Kamila Shamsie, Women’s Prize winning author of Home Fire, joined us to discuss her wonderful new novel, Best of Friends.