9th May – Joanna Miller & Julie Owen Moylan
Schedule
Sat May 09 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
54 Godwin Court, SN1 4BB Swindon, United Kingdom | Swindon, EN
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Julie Owen Moylan is the bestselling author of titles including That Green Eyed Girl and Circus of Mirrors. Her newest book, Elizabeth & Marilyn is out this year!Joanna Miller is the bestselling author of The Eights, which also won Bert’s Book of the Year as voted by our customers in 2025, and she’s here to celebrate the release of the paperback edition!
Join us at 6.30pm on Saturday 9th May to hear Joanna and Julie talk about their books. There’ll be an opportunity to ask your questions and get your books signed as well!
You won’t get a physical ticket, we’ll add your name to our list and let you in on the night!
Elizabeth & Marilyn – Julie Owen Moylan
London, October, 1956. A glittering Royal Film Premiere. The whole world is watching . . .
Tonight, Elizabeth II will formally greet an array of stars. Though she was not born to be Queen, this young mother and wife has embraced her patriotic duty and its unforgiving demands.
A limousine pulls up. Out steps a vision in dazzling gold: Marilyn Monroe. A money-making machine for Hollywood, with curves that drive men wild and a smile that lets women know she’s in on the joke.
As the two most famous women in the world come face to face, they look to be worlds apart. Yet beneath the glamorous costumes, both are fighting to keep the men they love, while trying to do their work in a man’s world. And they have spent the summer of 1956 battling secret demons the public could never imagine.
Now, Marilyn steps forward. These photographs will be on the front page of every newspaper in the morning. But this isn’t their first meeting. And the story behind the headlines is even more sensational . . .
The Eights – Joanna Miller
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students.
Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have come here from all walks of life, and they are thrown into an unlikely, life-affirming friendship. Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her brother and her fiancé on the battlefield, has arrived in their place.
Beatrice, politically-minded daughter of a famous suffragette, sees Oxford as a chance to make her own way – and her own friends – for the first time. Socialite Otto fills her room with extravagant luxuries but fears they won’t be enough to distract her from her memories of the war years. And quiet, clever, Marianne, the daughter of a village vicar, arrives bearing a secret she must hide from everyone – even The Eights – if she is to succeed.
But Oxford’s dreaming spires cast a dark shadow: in 1920, misogyny is still rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great War are still very real indeed. And as the group navigate this tumultuous moment in time, their friendship will become more important than ever.
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