Wednesday 11 June 2025
"A really fascinating and insightful evening." LS​
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"A very moving and inspiring evening. Brilliant interviewing by Clare Clark." The Otto Connection​
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"Absolutely remarkable and bone-chilling at the same time." AR
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"Unsurprisingly the queue ran out of the door for signings."
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"Another triumph... Anne Sebba was an incredible investigative journalist on a very harrowing evil story." LO
Clare Clark is a historian and novelist. Her first novel The Great Stink, was long-listed for the Orange Prize, won the Pendleton May First Novel award in the UK and the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices award in the USA. It was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Clare has since published six more books: The Nature of Monsters; Savage Lands, (long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2010); Beautiful Lies; We That Are Left,
In the Full Light of the Sun and, most recently, Trespass.
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Clare is a regular contributor to the Guardian’s literary pages, reviewing both fiction and non-fiction. She writes for a number of other newspapers and magazines, both in the UK and the USA. She is also a frequent chair at literary events, and sits on the Advisory Board of Cheltenham Literature Festival.
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
​Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps, one of the UK’s most distinguished biographers tells the extraordinary story of the fifty women captives at Auschwitz-Birkenau who were assembled to play marching music for the other inmates and forced labourers as they left each morning, as well as for weekly concerts given to their Nazi captors.
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From Alma Rosé, the orchestra's main conductor, niece of Gustav Mahler and a formidable pre-war celebrity violinist, to Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, its teenage cellist and last surviving member, Anne Sebba has drawn on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members and the response of other prisoners for the very first time.
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Anne Sebba is author of the international bestseller That Woman, an acclaimed biography of Wallis Simpson;
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died Under Nazi Occupation; and
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy. ​ ​
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