Sofka Zinovieff

Saturday 7th March in the Writers’ Room   Sofka Zinovieff – “The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me” March 7, 2015 In the Salon at the Guildhall, filled to capacity, George Miller, Editorial Director of Granta from 2002 to 2007, interviews Sofka Zinovieff about her latest book, “The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My

5-6 pm, Friday 6th March Speaking about The Mad Boy “The extraordinary story of a madly eccentric set and the house they lived in. Sofka Zinovieff’s memoir The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me describes a vanishing world of fading 20th century English bohemian aristocracy.” At the Guildhall Tickets £8 (£7) Booking at

“Dalmatians Wore Pearls”     12.15 Wednesday 11th March 2015 Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, Cumbria is the centre for this exciting literature festival organised by Ways With Words. For 10 days (from 6 – 15 March 2015) writers and readers get together to share the pleasure of books, words and ideas. Theatre by

The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me: Sofka Zinovieff – talk and book signing on Nov 25th Tuesday November 25th 7.30pm in The Bear Hotel (Riverside Suite), Hungerford. Bear Hotel, Charnham Street, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0EL Telephone: 01488 682512 Email: thebear.hungerford@oldenglishinns.co.uk Tickets £5. Bar available. http://www.hungerfordbookshop.co.uk/events/the-mad-boy-lord-berners-my-grandmother-and-me-sofka-zinovieff-talk-and-book-signing-on-nov-25th       Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer,

Saturday 18th October, 7.30 pm   Book Launch: The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me Sofka Zinovieff The Corn Exchange 18th October 2014 at 7.30pm The scandalous and eccentric lives of the cultured elite, and the enchanted house they lived in. Sofka Zinovieff, the author, will be joining us in the Corn Exchange to talk about her new

Tuesday October 28th, 2 pm If you have visited Faringdon Folly and enjoyed the four-and-twenty blackbirds and their pie nestled in the trees, you must come to this talk by the grand-daughter of Robert Heber Percy, the eponymous  Mad Boy, and long-time companion of eccentric Lord Berners. The two were irrepressible enough, indulging in exquisite

TUE 7 OCT 2014 8:00PM – 9:00PM   INSPIRATIONAL HOUSES THE STUDIO, IMPERIAL SQUARE Châtelaine of Burnt Norton, the house that inspired the first of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets,Caroline Sandon (Burnt Norton) and Sofka Zinovieff (The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me) who inherited Faringdon House, the former home of Lord Berners, reflect on the extraordinary history of