08/06/2026
📚 Booktalk 19.00 Tuesday 9th June 2026 📍Frontline Club 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ London 🎟️ Tickets https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-in-the-steps-of-jan-morris-tickets-1988419907470?aff=oddtdtcreator
Everest. The Eichmann trial. Che Guevara. Suez. One reporter was there for all of it Jan Morris broke the news of the 1953 summit to a young Queen and scooped the story of the century. Then, in the early 1970s, she did the bravest thing of her life: she transitioned, living openly as a woman at a time when almost no one did, and wrote about it in "Conundrum", now a classic of trans literature. She and her wife Elizabeth stayed together until death parted them in 2020.Sara Wheeler's new biography "Jan Morris: A Life" is the portrait of a trailblazer who saw everything and never stopped longing for home. A Welsh nationalist who wasn't Welsh. A preacher of kindness with a cruel streak. The most famous journalist in the world, and still a mystery.Read the life that defined a century
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