Creative Folkestone Book Festival: Alison Weir: Secrets, Queens and Tudor Power
Create a free account to applyExplore Tudor power, intrigue and royal personalities in a Book Festival conversation with bestselling historian Alison Weir, discussing The Boleyn Secret and Queens of the Age of Chivalry. Culture journalist Alex Peake-Tomkinson chairs, with a book signing afterwards in The Clearing.
Join bestselling historian Alison Weir for a Book Festival conversation exploring the power, intrigue and personalities of the Tudor court. She discusses her novel The Boleyn Secret alongside Queens of the Age of Chivalry, reflecting on the royal women and dynasties that have shaped her writing and captivated readers around the world.
The event is chaired by culture journalist Alex Peake-Tomkinson, an experienced literary interviewer with extensive background across books and the arts. It forms part of Creative Folkestone’s annual celebration of stories, ideas and conversation, bringing leading writers and thinkers together for an evening of lively discussion, with a book signing afterwards in The Clearing.
Events are scheduled to last around an hour unless otherwise stated.
Alison Weir
18 November 2026, 20:00 – 21:00
Location
£5 Cost of Living Ticket plus £1.50 booking fee. Standard tickets are £12 plus £1.50 booking fee; concession tickets are £10 plus £1.50 booking fee. Concessionary rates apply to under 21s, full-time students, registered unemployed and registered disabled.
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