Cooper, Collins, Conran and Class

Don’t miss this special festival event with with bestselling author Jennie Godfrey (The List of Suspicious Things) and novelist, academic and class obsessive Joanna Nadin (The Queen of Bloody Everything) as they dissect the Rivals revival, class attitudes in the 1970s and 1980s, and the issue of class in women’s fiction and the publishing industry at large.

Jennie Godfrey was raised in West Yorkshire and her debut novel, The List of Suspicious Things, is inspired by her childhood there in the 1970s. Jennie is from a mill-working family, but as the first of the generation born after the mills closed, she went to university and built a career in the corporate world. In 2020 she left and began to write. She is now a writer and part-time Waterstones bookseller and lives in the Somerset countryside.

Dr Joanna Nadin is the Sunday Times-bestselling author of more than 90 books for children and adults, including the Worst Class in the World series, Joe All Alone, which is now a BAFTA-winning TV drama, and the critically acclaimed non-fiction The Future of the Self. She has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal five times, and been a Richard and Judy bookclub pick and Blue Peter Book of the Month. She is also an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Bristol, and tutors for the Arvon Foundation and John Yorke Story.