SEXY SHORTS FOR CHRISTMAS
Lunch with LESLEY COOKMAN, HAZEL CUSHION, KATIE FFORDE, BERNARDINE KENNEDY and JANE WENHAM-JONES (Lunch in aid of breast cancer)
Guildhall, High Street
12pm
£6 (incl. sandwiches and coffee)

Sexy Shorts for Christmas with Katie Fforde, Bernardine Kennedy, Jane Wenham-Jones and Lesley Cook
A Charity book with Impact! Sexy Shorts for Christmas is packed full of fun, raunchy reads by top international writers. Today we feature a special panel of writers from this book who will discuss the different aspects of the romantic novel and what defines the genre.

RUSSELL CHAMBERLIN – LOOT: THE HERITAGE OF PLUNDER
Guildford Institute - Modern History Group event 
2.45pm
GI Members free Non-members £3

Russell Chamberlin discusses the second, revised edition, of his book  Loot: the Heritage of Plunder. Reviewing the first edition, Glyn Daniel, doyen of archaeologists, wrote in The Times: "Everyone should read this book and ponder the issues involved."

GIRLS NIGHT I
AMANDA CRAIG & DEBBIE TAYLOR
Electric Theatre
7pm
£5.00 (incl. glass of wine) £4 Friends of GBF (incl. glass of wine)
Amanda Craig and Debbie Taylor launch this year’s Girls Night with a discussion on ‘sun-lit’ – novels that are both literary and pleasurable, which lift the spirits while engaging the mind. Chaired by Hazel Cushion publisher of Sexy Shorts For Christmas featured today at 12pm

GIRLS NIGHT II
JENNY COLGAN, MIL MILLINGTON, ADELE PARKS & LAUREN WEISBERGER
Electric Theatre
8.30pm
£7 (incl. glass of wine) £6 Friends of GBF (incl. glass of wine)
Joint Ticket £10 includes both shows

Hazel Cushion replaces Katharine Viner who has had to cancel.
Hazel chairs a fun evening of readings and discussion with Jenny Colgan, Adele Parks, Lauren Weisberger and Mil Millington.

HUMPHREY CARPENTER
Griffiths Lecture Theatre, University of Surrey
7.30pm
£6.  £5 Friends of GBF.  £2 students

Humphrey Carpenter in conversation with Paul Blezard about his biography of Spike Milligan, one of Britain’s best-loved and most original comics. He reassesses Spike’s extraordinary and contradictory life and career.

JIMMY YOUNG in conversation with NEIL PRINGLE
Guildford Civic
7.30pm
£8

In an extraordinary career that first brought him fame as a pop singer, Sir Jimmy Young later turned to radio. His interviewing style won him exclusive interviews with every serving Prime Minister since Sir Alec Douglas Home. He has remained a very private person, but in his autobiography, Forever Young, he tells his story  and the truth behind his controversial departure from the BBC.

Neil Pringle has presented the mid morning show on BBC Southern Counties Radio for five years and has won a number of awards.