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International Women’s day
8th March 2025
The Lansdowne Club
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Kindly sponsored by
Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, campaigner, interviewer and non-fiction writer. The author of ten novels and short-story collections, her books have sold over five million copies, been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel), The Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship, The Map of Bones) and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Taxidermist’s Daughter and The Winter Ghosts.
Her highly-acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands: A Story of Caring & Everyday Acts of Love and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World, which inspired her one-woman theatre touring show.
A regular guest on radio and television for literature, Kate hosts the pre-show interview series at Chichester Festival Theatre and is a regular interviewer for literary and arts festivals including Letters Live, the Hay Festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the British Library and the Royal National Theatre. Her new podcast, The Matilda Effect, will be launched in summer 2024.The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction – the world’s largest annual literary awards celebrating writing by woman – she is the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign and has her own monthly YouTube book show, Mosse on a Monday. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is also an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors, a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester. In the broader arts, Kate is President of the Festival of Chichester, Patron of the Chichester Cathedral Festival of Flowers 2024, Vice-Patron of the Chichester Cathedral Platinum Music Trust and Patron of the Chichester Festival of Music, Dance and Speech. She is also an Ambassador for Parkinsons UK and has recently been appointed to Board of the British Library.
Join us for a BAWE Lunch with members Issy Warrack and Dr Estrelita Van Rensburg this March. More information coming soon.
Issy Warrack, a commercial property surveyor by profession and an entrepreneur at heart, always enjoyed an active and varied lifestyle. Before, during and after her property career she developed a couple of successful business ventures within Scotland, the UK and Europe, including Norway and Greece. Juggling an active career, motherhood and family life, was just run-of-the-mill for her, never giving her health a second thought. It came as a surprise when she developed serious heart issues, which over time were not responding to prescribed medication. Her interest in holistic medicine led her and her business partner to explore the healing properties of healthy nutrition, which was a revelation. This led to Wellness EQ, a company specialising in health and wellness. Issy has been the driving force behind the publication of two recipe books during COVID.
Estrelita van Rensburg, a qualified physician-pathologist spent the first part of her professional career as a professor in laboratory medicine/virology at the Universities of Stellenbosch and Pretoria in South Africa. After a decade and a half, she moved into the pharmaceutical industry where she held the position of Global Medical Director at an US-based large clinical research organisation. More recently her focus shifted away from treatment-based medicine into the field of nutrition and preventative medicine. She co-authored three books. The first Eat Well or Die Slowly – Your Guide to Metabolic Health was published in 2020. Estrelita lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Booking link will be added once available.
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