Literary Lunch with author, journalist and former MP Chris Mullin
Thursday, 27 February 2025
Location: Christopher Wren Dining Room, Ye Olde Watling Pub, 29 Watling Road, London EC4M 9BR
Join us for our next Literary Lunch at the historic Ye Olde Watling pub where we will hear from Chris Mullin who will be discussing his book '
Chris Mullin is an author, journalist and former MP. Chris Mullin was the Member of Parliament for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010. He is a former chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee and was a minister in three departments. a minister in three departments and chairman of the Home Affairs select committee. His books include three highly acclaimed volumes of diaries, "A View from the Foothills", "Decline and Fall" and "A Walk-On Part". He has recently published a fourth volume, 'Didn't You Use to be Chris Mullin? (Diaries 2010-22). He is the author of four novels, the best known of which, "A Very British Coup", was made into an award-winning television series. In 2018 he published a sequel, 'The Friends of Harry Pertkins'. In 2016 he published, 'Hinterland -- a Memoir'.
Doug Wills has been with the Evening Standard for 30 years, 15 as managing editor and 10 of those as Group Managing Editor including the Independent. Doug trained in journalism with Thomson Regional Newspapers in Berkshire, went on to be the political correspondent for the Western Daily Press in Bristol before cutting his editorial management teeth as a deputy editor back with Thomson newspapers. He moved to London in the mid-80s to join the Mirror Group helping to launch the London Daily News when the battle for circulation in the capital was as tough as it is today. He joined the Evening Standard when the Evening Standard was part of Associated Newspapers owned along with the Daily Mail by Viscount Rothermere, Vere Harmsworth, and 20 years later was part of the editorial executive team during the sale of the Standard to the former KGB operative Alexander Lebedev. Doug is the Editor Emeritus of the Evening Standard, is on the board of the Society of Editors and is chair of London Press Club. He became a Liveryman of the Stationers' Company in 2012 and is a Court Assistant and is currently Upper Warden.
The cost of this lunchtime event, which starts at 1.00pm, is just £37.50 and includes a traditional two-course lunch, as well as the after-lunch interview with Chris Mullin and Doug Wills. We are restricted to 35 attendees, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Books will also be available to preorder and get signed on the day!
