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Robert Lacey
talks to Valerie Grove:
Inside the Kingdom
LF205
| MON |
| 20 |
| SEP |
Booking opens 1st July 2010
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc.
Robert Lacey is a British journalist and the author of the bestselling books Majesty and Ford: The Men and the Machine, among others. In 1979, he moved with his family to Saudi Arabia for eighteen months to research his book, The Kingdom, an eye-opening and penetrating study of that country's complex and often paradoxical culture. The book was banned by the Saudi government of the time.
For the past three years he has split his time between Saudi Arabia and London, gathering firsthand material for Inside the Kingdom at every level of Saudi society - from political dissidents and Guantanamo detainees to the innermost circles of the royal family. Inside the Kingdom is the most penetrating and substantial book on the Saudi state and society since September 11.
Photo credit: David Levenson
Valerie Grove has been a journalist for 40 years, now working on The Times. She wrote the biographies of Dodie Smith, Laurie Lee and John Mortimer. Her latest book is a life of Kaye Webb, founder of the Puffin Club, who was married to the great cartoonist Ronald Searle.
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc.
Robert Lacey is a British journalist and the author of the bestselling books Majesty and Ford: The Men and the Machine, among others. In 1979, he moved with his family to Saudi Arabia for eighteen months to research his book, The Kingdom, an eye-opening and penetrating study of that country's complex and often paradoxical culture. The book was banned by the Saudi government of the time.
For the past three years he has split his time between Saudi Arabia and London, gathering firsthand material for Inside the Kingdom at every level of Saudi society - from political dissidents and Guantanamo detainees to the innermost circles of the royal family. Inside the Kingdom is the most penetrating and substantial book on the Saudi state and society since September 11.
Photo credit: David Levenson
Valerie Grove has been a journalist for 40 years, now working on The Times. She wrote the biographies of Dodie Smith, Laurie Lee and John Mortimer. Her latest book is a life of Kaye Webb, founder of the Puffin Club, who was married to the great cartoonist Ronald Searle.