7-28 SEPT 2024
An eve-of-Fringe special. One newspaper this year said that after 5pm, Wanstead becomes a ghost town. The Fringe will be disproving it all throughout September - but for one night… Continue reading Ghost Town Tales
Leading science journalists Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren bring us extraordinary stories and studies that open our eyes to the inner workings of the mind. Every one of our thoughts,… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren
Outspoken journalist and commentator Ian Dunt knows something has gone terribly wrong with our society. It’s a feeling many of us have, but we struggle to articulate exactly why. Ian… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Ian Dunt
Artists see things differently. Will Gompertz is familiar to audiences throughout the country from his years as the BBC’s Arts Editor. For years Will was a fixture on the Ten… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Will Gompertz
Jonathan Coe is one of Britain’s greatest living novelists whose books shine a light on how we as a society see ourselves. From his hit 1994 book What a Carve… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Jonathan Coe
It’s time everyone knew the story of Charles Ignatius Sancho. In the mid-1700s, a boy born on a slave ship found his way to Georgian London and miraculously survived. The… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Paterson Joseph
Natalie Lee is familiar to thousands of people through her Instagram presence as @StyleMeSunday. Her book, Feeling Myself, is about how warped society’s approach to sex has become and how… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Natalie Lee
Forensic psychiatrist Sohom Das has spent 15 years trying to understand, treat and rehabilitate dangerous people. His work takes him to high-security prisons and securely locked hospital wards across the… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents Sohom Das
Ladybird Books are instantly recognisable. As well as helping generations of children to learn to read, they represented a vision of how people perceived their lives as things were changing… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Helen Day – Visions of our future
Until 1965, Wanstead was truly a part of Essex, and even now there are tell-tale signs all around us of a time before it became part of a London borough.… Continue reading Wanstead Book Festival presents: Tim Burrows
