A delicious mix of mafia-style smuggling, illicit night fights and tense shoot outs, Peter’s event forms part of our Criminally Good Day at Harwich’s Electric Palace Cinema. Anyone who enjoyed Alan Johnson’s event at Chelmsford Library should make a beeline for this one!

Wrapping up the day there will be a screening of Fritz Lang’s legendary ‘M’ (1931), which is widely regarded by many as one of the greatest films of all time and ‘The Blue Print for the Serial Killer Movie’. Film buffs will not want to miss this one, particularly the opportunity to see it in one of the country’s oldest surviving purpose-built cinemas replete with its silent screen, original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact.

In her latest book Thorns, Lust and Glory, Estelle asks how this courtier’s daughter became the Queen of England. What it was that really tore apart this illustrious marriage. How she became the whore of England: an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold. While many stories of Anne Boleyn’s downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate.

Sing As We Go is the fourth and final volume of his critically-acclaimed sequence of books that chart the history of Britain from the accession of Queen Victoria to the outbreak of the Second World War.