Inclusions

• 7 night Trans Atalantic voyage from New York to Southampton aboard Queen Mary 2 including all taxes and fees
• All main meals and onboard entertainment
• Special onboard activities, workshops, Q&As and panel sessions
• Exciting line-up of authors, an award winning journalist and book illustrator

The chance to engage in lively discussions, exchange ideas, and even collaborate on creative projects are further highlights of this first-of-its-kind sailing in Australian waters. Whether it’s listening in as literary experts dissect award-winning works or bearing witness to acclaimed authors shedding light on the real-life influences that inspired their storylines, literature fans are sure to find themselves in their element.

Special Guests

Sophie Raworth – Journalist and BBC News presenter, who has fronted many of the BBC’s big events programmes, including the Queen’s funeral, Royal Weddings, the World War One centenary, and the London Olympics.

Richard Coles – Writer, broadcaster and an Anglican priest, who co-presented Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 for 11 years and appears, from time to time, on QI, Have I Got News For You, and Would I Lie To You? He writes regularly for the Sunday Times, and is the author of half a dozen books.

Dolly Alderton – Screenwriter, columnist and the author of four Sunday Times Bestselling books. Her 2018 memoir, Everything I Know About Love won The National Book Awards Autobiography of The Year and was nominated for Waterstones Book of The Year Award and a British Book Award. It was adapted into a seven-part TV series for The BBC and Peacock. Her 2020 novel Ghosts was nominated for The Everyman Wodehouse Prize and a British Book Award. She has written a column for The Sunday Times Style since 2015. A collection of her advice columns, Dear Dolly, was published in 2022. She hosted and co-hosted chart-topping podcasts Love Stories, The High Low and Sentimental in The City.

Andrew O’Hagan – Editor-at-large of the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Andrew has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times, was voted one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003 and won the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Peter Frankopan – Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and a senior research fellow at Worcester College in Oxford. He is also a Professor of Silk Roads Studies and a bye-fellow at King’s College, Cambridge.