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Winchester Books Festival

Fri 17 Apr

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The Arc

Two authors who have had stellar careers in the arts before publishing books, Dame Harriet Walter and Dame Vikki Heywood, come together for a wide-ranging conversation about lives spent on and around the stage.

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Time & Location

17 Apr 2026, 12:00 – 13:00

The Arc, Jewry St, Winchester SO23 8SB, UK

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Dame Vikki Heywood was Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2003 until 2012 and before that Joint Chief Executive of the Royal Court Theatre.  She has been an executive producer of many West End and Broadway productions, including Matilda the Musical. She was Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts 2012-2018 and in 2020 was awarded a Damehood for services to the Arts. This is her first novel.​​​

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Muswell Press is a prize-winning independent publisher. The company has been shortlisted for the British Book Award’s Small Trade Press of the Year for the last 4 years and has an outstanding reputation for publishing Debut, Crime and Queer fiction.  Jon Ransom won the Polari First Book Prize with The Whale Tattoo in 2023 and in 2024 went on to win the Polari Book Prize with The Gallopers. The only author to do so in consecutive years. Helen Erichsen was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger 2023. 

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For press information please contact fiona@brownleedonald.com

For rights information please contact Andrea Joyce, andrea@joyceliterary.com

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Miss Veal and Miss Ham – Vikki Heywood, July 2025

- pb ISBN: 9781838340100 eISBN: 978173919306 - www.muswell-press.co.uk

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