Join us for a conversation with legend of historical fiction Alison Weir at Southwold Arts Centre as part of Southwold Literary Festival! Alison will be talking to us about her career so far as the biggest-selling female historian and her latest novel The Cardinal.

Tickets are £7.55 each (including booking fee). Available to book from Southwold Library, from Southwold Arts Centre, or online pe TicketSource.

Dr Alison Weir is the biggest-selling female historian (and the fifth best-selling historian) in the UK since records began in 1997. She has published thirty-two titles and sold more than 3 million books – over a million in the UK and 2.2 million in the USA. She is now working on two concurrent series of books: the Tudor Rose trilogy of novels about Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII and Mary I, and England’s Medieval Queens, a quartet of historical works of non-fiction.

Her novel The Cardinal came out in May 2025 explores the rise of Thomas Wolsey, who was Henry VIII’s chief adviser—until the king accused him of treason. And in Queens at War, the fourth in her non-fiction series on England’s Medieval Queens published September 2025, Alison Weir chronicles the five queens who got caught up in wars that changed the courses of their lives: the Hundred Years’ War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses between the royal Houses of Lancaster and York.

This event takes place at Southwold Arts Centre, St Edmund’s Hall, IP18 6JP.

Southwold Literary Festival has been organised in collaboration with Southwold Arts Centre, Friends of Southwold Library, and Suffolk Community Libraries.