Sir Harold Hillier Gardens - Lecture Lunch - A Criminal Passion - Writing Historical Mysteries - Thursday 20th November 2025 - 11.00am

Sir Harold Hillier Gardens

Lecture Lunch - A Criminal Passion - Writing Historical Mysteries

Thursday 20th November 2025

11.00am

Join local author Claire Gradidge, winner of the 2019 Richard and Judy ‘Search for a Bestseller competition’, who will talk about the way photographs, maps and memories of Romsey and the surrounding area shape her WWII Josephine Fox historical mystery series. Charting a countryside which is vanishing, the books offer ‘tantalising Golden Age mysteries’ which ‘capture the atmosphere of wartime Britain.’ Books will be available for signing on the day.

Coffee at 11am, followed by lecture and a two-course lunch served in Jermyn’s House set in the heart of the Gardens.

Booking is essential

Member price: £41p/p

Non-member price: £53.50p/p includes Garden admission

Once purchased, tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded.

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