EA Festival on tour with Chestnut
During Autumn 2022, EA Festival will be going on tour with Chestnut, the region’s leading hospitality group. Curated like the main festival, each of the four dinner-time events features an author whose life and work are iconic and fascinating. To ensure a truly memorable evening out, Chestnut has created a unique dinner menu for each talk. You can buy tickets and find full details (including menus) on Chestnut’s website.
Ben Timberlake
at The Weeping Willow
18th October, 7 pm
At his talk at The Weeping Willow, the former soldier will recount exploits from his book, High Risk, an odyssey fuelled by adrenalin addiction. From the peak flow-states attained during combat in Iraq to the descent into five years of heroin addiction, Timberlake has always welcomed seemingly impossible challenges – using his body and mind as the petri dish for daring and controversial experiments.
Anya Hindmarch
Renowned designer and ecofashion pioneer Anya Hindmarch will share some of the wisdom and insights from her first book, the Sunday Times best-seller, If In Doubt Wash Your Hair, at The Crown at Stoke by Nayland. Drawing on what she has learned during her busy, multi-hyphenate life (mother-designer-businesswoman), she will tell us her strategies for meeting the demands of fashion, business and family – and leading a better, happier life. Sometimes the answer can be as simple as washing your hair.
at The Crown, Stoke by Nayland
27th October, 6:30 pm
Justin Webb
at The Eight Bells, Saffron Walden
2nd November, 7pm
The longest-serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs programme Today, Justin Webb has enjoyed a high-flying career since joining the BBC in 1984. At The Eight Bells, he will share reminiscences from his childhood memoir, The Gift of a Radio, a tour de force of psychological insight and bleak humour. The book lays out the unlikely seeds of his success, a fraught and repressed childhood shaped by the hang-ups of his beloved mother and dysfunctional 1970s England.
Justine Picardie
at The Carpenters Arms, between Cambridge & Newmarket
10th November, 7pm
On top of an illustrious career as one of the world’s top fashion editors, Justine Picardie is an award-winning author and one of the world’s top authorities on Coco Chanel and Christian Dior. At The Carpenters Arms, she will tell us why her latest book, Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture, focuses on Catherine Dior rather than her famous brother, compare and contrast the lives and personalities of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior and tell us what’s inspiring her these days.