Often as an author, I only occasionally get to meet the public who buy and read my books. Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize-winning author of Remains of the Day I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions. Woodstock festival hotel Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme Festival on-site and online bookseller Supporters of the festival green room Festival London hotel partner Supporter of Italian programme Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Festival ideas partner Festival cultural partner Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award International radio partner Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Title partner Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture CEO of Project People Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture Trinity College St Cross College Lincoln College Worcester College Exeter College: college home of the festival Partner of Jewish programme Doubleday Books which change you, your mind, your world Prestige publishing partner Wines of the Douro Valley Oxford University Images Accountants to the festival Alumni Office Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Local radio partner Regional media partner Olive oil from Sicily K T Bruce Photography Siren Communications - corporate consultants Wines of Provence He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Historical Society, a trustee of the International Churchill Society, visiting professor at the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Roberts’s works include Salisbury: Victorian Titan, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, and the bestselling Churchill: Walking with Destiny. He takes a fresh look at the American War of Independence and the Declaration of Independence, shows how George’s support for William Pitt was key in the battle with Napoleon, and makes a modern diagnosis of the illness that robbed George of his mind in his final years. Roberts argues that George III was an intelligent, benevolent king who was devoted to the constitution and who navigated turbulent times with a strong sense of honour and duty. Renowned biographer and historian Andrew Roberts overturns the traditional view of George III as a pompous tyrant, and a disastrous king.

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