Events
A popular public speaker, Clare give talks on all her books at literary and history festivals around the country as well as in the USA, Poland, Spain, Demark, Ireland and Italy. She also enjoys interviewing other authors, including Charles Spencer, Hallie Rubenhold, Anne Sebba, Richard J. Evans, Caroline Moorhead and Jonathan Freedland among others.
Clare loves talking at festivals and bookshops, in libraries and museums, and on radio and podcasts, to veterans, schoolchildren, and everyone in between!
Please use the contact form if you would like to book Clare as a speaker.
14 October 2026 6:30 pm
The Army & Navy Club
Fireside chat with Colin Cameron about all the Second Word War books
17 October 2026 10:30 am
Polish Saturday Schools workshop POSK
The Silent Unseen: The Story of the Cichociemni
20 October 2026 7:30 pm
Hull Literary & Philosophical Society
Agent Zo, courageous Second World War resistance fighter
18 November 2026 8:00 pm
Barrington Society
Agent Zo, courageous Second World War resistance fighter
25 November 2026 6:30 pm
Future Dreams Book Club, Women's Prize
Agent Zo, author Q&A
10 December 2026 7:00 pm
Pints of Knowledge, Landor Pub, Clapham North
Agent Zo, courageous Second World War Resistance Fighter
9 January 2027 12:00 pm
Ampthill Archaeological & Historia Society
Agent Zo, courageous Second World War resistance fighter
12 January 2027 7:00 pm
Boundless (online)
The Woman Who Saved the Children
17 February 2027 7:00 pm
Rock Road Library, Cambridge
The Spy Who Loved, Britain’s first female special agent of the Second World War
18 February 2027 7:30 pm
Haverhill Aviation Society
The Women Who Flew for Hitler
19 February 2027 7:30 pm
Littlebury Hamlets History Society
Eglantyne Jebb, The Woman Who Saved the Children
20 April 2027 11:30 am
Burnt MIll Academy
The Spy Who Loved, The secrets and lives of Christine Granville aka Krystyna Skarbek
27 April 2027 5:00 pm
University of Buckingham, MA/PhD Biography Programme
Researching & Writing Biography
12 May 2027 8:00 pm
Bures History Society
Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, ‘The Spy Who Loved’
17 May 2027 2:30 pm
Saffron Walden U3A
Agent Zo, courageous Second World War resistance fighter
29 June 2027 8:00 pm
Oxted Royal British Legion
Agent Zo, courageous Second World War resistance fighter
23 October 2027 2:00 pm
Secret World War Two annual conference
The Spy Who Loved: Britain’s first female special agent in the SWW, Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville
29 November 2027 8:00 pm
East Herts Aviation Society
The Women Who Flew for Hitler
Past Events
Clare has spoken about her books and the history behind them at the Imperial War Museum, National Army Museum, British Library, Royal Albert Hall, House of Lords, the Special Forces Club, and many literary and history festivals across Britain. She has spoken at Polish Embassy in London and the British Embassy in Warsaw, and gave a TEDx talk at Stormont in Belfast.
Recently she has also enjoyed giving talks at the White Waltham Airfield, Brooklands, Chicksands Military Intelligence Museum, Biggin Hill Memorial Museum, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Books tours have taken her across the USA, Spain, Italy and Poland.
Clare also regularly chairs panels and interviews other authors at festivals such as Jewish Book Week, the Henley Lit Fest and Wimpole History Festival. Recenty she has interviewed Jonathan Freedland, Hallie Rubenhold, Charles Spencer, Richard J Evans, Caroline Moorhead, Mathew Harding, Anne Sebba among many more.
The trouble is, Clare loves talking about books and history, so if your local history society, international festival, museum, college, bookshop or U3A etc might be interested in a talk, please get in touch!