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.

 

22 September 2026 7:30 pm

'Pints of Knowledge' at the Morpeth Arms, Pimlico

Agent Zo, courageous Second World War resistance fighter

28 September 2026 6:00 pm

Save the Children Global Forum

Eglantyne Jebb

7 October 2026 6:00 pm

Henley on Thames Lit Fest

‘War Stories’ Clare interviews Adam Hart, Op Pimento, & Jess Robinson, ‘Life is Rosi’

14 October 2026 6:30 pm

The Army & Navy Club

Fireside chat with Colin Cameron about all the Second Word War books

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

Interviewing Charles Spencer & Jonathan Freedland at the Henley Lit Fest (thanks to Scarlet Page photography), and talking at the National Army Museum for the Chelsea Hist Fest (thanks to James McCauley photo).

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

18 February 2027 7:30 pm

Haverhill Aviation Society

The Women Who Flew for Hitler

20 April 2027 11:30 am

Burnt MIll Academy

The Spy Who Loved, The secrets and lives of Christine Granville aka Krystyna Skarbek

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

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!