Cbf Fundraiser: Clare Balding In Conversation With Kate Mosse

Join legendary broadcaster and award-winning author Clare Balding, along with bestselling author and Cicestrian, Kate Mosse, for an evening discussing Clare's extraordinary life and career as her debut novel Pastures New is published in paperback. This is a National Year of Reading event and all proceeds go to support the work of Children's BookFest.From the courts of Wimbledon to Buckingham Palace to the Traitors Castle, Clare is known to millions on screen for her warmth and humour. Now she brings the same wit and insight to her fiction. Pastures New is a funny and heartwarming novel that captures Clares deep affection for the countryside and the people she meets, which listeners of her BBC Radio 4 series Ramblings are bound to enjoy. A lifelong lover of animals, she also seeks to shine a light on the role they play in our lives through her writing and other projects, which will see her adding an entrepreneurial string to her bow this year.Come and hear her chat about all this and more, and pick up a signed copy ofPastures New.About Pastures New:
Alex has perfected the art of dodging responsibility during her almost 40 years until an unexpected letter turns her life upside down.
Shes inherited a crumbling sheep farm in wildest, wettest Wales. This was not her life plan. Not at all.
Now, her closest companion is a stubborn Welsh terrier, shes speed-readingThe Idiots Guide to Farming, and her arrival has set the village gossip mill spinning. With the farm near collapse, Alex sets out to uncover the truth behind her mysterious inheritance.
Clare Balding grew up in the countryside surrounded by horses and dogs, and reading everything from Jilly Cooper to Henry James. Her autobiography, My Animals and Other Family, won the National Book Award for Autobiography of the Year. A keen rider, she competed as an amateur flat jockey during her teenage years, winning Champion Lady Rider in 1990. After an English Literature degree at Cambridge, she became a journalist. Alongside her award-winning sports broadcasting and coverage of major Royal events, Clare hosts her much-loved Ramblings series on Radio 4, taking her across the British Isles exploring its landscape and its storytelling. A passionate campaigner for equality and womens sport, Clare was awarded a CBE for her services to Sport and Charity in 2022, which she was honoured to receive at Buckingham Palace.