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Fidelis will be interviewing Celia Imrie on 27th April about her autobiography The Happy Hoofer as part of the Stratford Festival

Fidelis at WordFest

Fidelis will be appearing at Cambridge WordFest tonight, 17th April, where she will be interviewing Celia Imrie about her autobiography The Happy Hoofer

The Dastardly Advance of Polite Society

Fidelis is giving a 10 minute talk – called a WOWbite – at the WOW Festival this Sunday.  She will be appearing on a panel with Joanna Trollope, Tamsyn Challenger and Elif Shafak.  The event is scheduled for 10.30 am in the Queen Elizabeth Hall.  Her subject will be The Dastardly Advance of Polite Society.

Fidelis is contributing to a programme fronted by Jude Kelly about the first women in England to make their living as actresses.  As she wrote her dissertation on the subject, Fidelis knows some little areas which get passed by in general books about those pioneering women of the 1660s.

Inspired by many members of the audience at my Countess show in the USA and on board QM2, who wanted copies of the script of The Restoration Insult Translator section of the show, I bring to you my patented Restoration Insult Generator.  It’s an excellent and easy way to help you  find new ways to insult all those irritating gundiguts, trugs and crackfarts who cross your path.

Go to the FUN page and have a go!

To celebrate the re-publication of Unnatural Fire I will be doing a whistle-stop tour of the States

And I won’t be alone – Award-winning British actress, Celia Imrie, best known as one of the naked Calendar Girls (she needed bigger buns), Star Wars, and Brigit Jones’ Diary has agreed to perform some of the varied programme with me.

We promise an event quite unlike any usual author appearance.  You will have readings from 17^th century plays, extracts from the Countess novels, a Restoration acting lesson, some seventeenth century recipes, a class in 17^th century slang, and we will end with a little song, a QA and signing of whatever you care to buy or bring along…

Hope to see you there!

At 2 pm on Saturday 24^th July we will be appearing at M is for Mystery at San Mateo

86 E. Third Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94401. Ed Jeannie Kaufman. Phone: 650-401-8077

At 7 pm on Saturday 24^th July we will be appearing at San Francisco Mystery Bookstore

4175 24th St., San Francisco, CA 94114. Diane Kudisch. Phone: 415-282-7444

At 2 pm on Tuesday 27^th July we will be appearing at Book Em in South Pasadena, LA

1118 Mission St., South Pasadena, CA 91030-3212. Barry Martin Mary Riley. Phone: 626-799-9600

At 7 pm on Thursday 29^th July we will be at Centuries and Sleuths in Chicago

7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130-1502. August Paul Aleksy, Jr. Phone: 708-771-7243.

At 7 pm on Wednesday 4^th August we will be at Partners in Crime, Greenwich Village, NYC

44 Greenwich Ave., New York, NY 10011.  Maggie Topkis Phone: 212-243-0440