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Listen again to the Chiddingstone Castle Literary Festival podcast featuring Joanna in conversation with Rowan Pelling about her new novel Mum & Dad.
The festival hosted a series of online events as they were unable to run as usual due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On December 19th 2019 Joanna Trollope attended the Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace where she was presented with her CBE for services to literature by the Duke of Cambridge.
Read the full story here: Lancashire Telegraph
Women Mean Business! The Telegraph hosted a day of action, debate and networking as part of their campaign to boost female entrepreneurship in Britain. Hundreds of top British entrepreneurs and leading female business owners turned out to discuss ways the workplace can work better for women and how female entrepreneurs can get a better deal.
Joanna was there and spent the day in active and lively discussion.
Read about this discussion between Joanna, Allison Pearson, Jane Kellock and Julianne Miles: Click Here:
On October 30th, Jeremy Vine will explore what makes us human with author Joanna in a major BBC Radio 2 series featuring some of the thinkers and writers of our time. This week Joanna will ponder the importance of hope.
Last week, Joana made headlines after she appeared to berate JK Rowling and other writers for their use of Twitter. As she now explains in the interview: “For anyone who wants to be on Twitter, it’s absolutely fine, and I want you to emphasise that I’m not in the least critical of anybody who uses it,” she says firmly. “I just say that I don’t. I think for JK Rowling, it’s different because her readership is comprised of children, young adults and adults and they’re fascinated by it…..Obviously, it would be very useful for me [as a writer] to be fascinated by it, but I’m not,” she says. “The aim of my novels isn’t to tell people what to think or to tell them how I think, it’s to get the conversation going.”
As part of the interview in the Telegraph, Linda mentions that, in July, Joanna appear at the Curious Arts Festival in Hampshire (“like a music festival with books added – it’s like being a rock star!”), and part of her discussion will be her latest novel, City of Friends. Click to Read More… about Joanna’s life, her writing and her views.
Joanna writes a Diary for The Spectator. In Joanna Trollope’s diary, she writes of her yearning for northern landscapes, and also the Welsh Brexit mystery. Read how Joanna’s diary is of a journey of observation and celebration. Click here.
….says Libby Purves in her column in The Times, today. High-flying female professionals may still face more tugs and troubles of family life than the man at the next desk, she says. To read more – Click Here – (Subscription only)
How fantastic! Joanna’s novel – City of Friends is this week’s No. 1 best seller! There is much celebration as Joanna’s new novel, City of Friends, topped the Neilsen Bookscan charts to be the new No.1 Best Seller.
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Joanna joins Lucy Worsley historian, author, presenter and Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, and bestselling author Kathy Lette who credits Austen with her wanting to become a writer, in pledging their support to Jane’s Fund during this significant year as the Museum’s 2017 ambassadors.
Great News! Do read the Culture magazine of The Sunday Times! (subscription only) – Click here – The magazine always publishes the Neilsen book charts in their Sunday Culture magazine – and to great excitement everywhere, Joanna’s new novel, City of Friends, has entered the charts at Number 2, in the Fiction Hardback section, after hardly a week on sale!