Relative Values with Rathbones Folio Prize

Lottie Moggach is the author of Kiss Me First, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and became a six part Channel 4 series; Under the Sun, and Brixton Hill which was serialised on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime.

Deborah Moggach OBE, has written twenty novels, including Tulip Fever, These Foolish Things (which inspired the best-selling novel and box-office film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and The Carer.She is also an award-winning screenwriter. Her most recent novel The Black Dress was published in July.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s last work of non-fiction was The Pike: Gabriele D’annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of Warwhich won the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Political Biography of the Year Award and the Costa Biography Award. In 2020 it was named ‘biography of the decade’ in the Sunday Times. Since then Lucy has also written the novel Peculiar Ground (set largely in the seventeenth century) which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her new book, The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of The Duke of Buckingham, is a biography of one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic seventeenth-century Englishmen at the heart of political and royal life.