Launch event: Jonathan Wilson in conversation with Simon Kuper

Name: Launch event: Jonathan Wilson in conversation with Simon Kuper
Start: 2026-05-28T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-28T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Colchester United FC

Schedule

Thu May 28 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Colchester United FC | Colchester, EN

Ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026, we are thrilled to be launching this year’s Essex Book Festival at Colchester Community Stadium with two masters of football writing. Author, sports journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Wilson’s The Power and the Glory is the definitive history of the World Cup, for the first time exploring the tournament’s socio-political impact across the globe as well as the goals and scandals that keep us all gripped. Award-winning columnist and podcaster Simon Kuper is among the vanishingly small number of writers who have attended every World Cup since 1990. In World Cup Fever he shares what he has learned about the ‘Beautiful Game’ from nine consecutive World Cups.
Join us for a highly entertaining and illuminating discussion about the most watched sporting event on the planet.