If you’re heading to a theatre performance during the summer season @OpenAirTheatre, why not set off from #durrantshotel? We’re an enjoyable stroll away from the open air theatre (or a short taxi ride if it’s a… https://t.co/QtBhNVqrC4
The E-Type. The Mini. The Landrover. And the DB5. Discover the story of these four British icons in #HighPerformance by @petergrimsdale https://t.co/fVCJNcsIgM
@sirstirlingmoss is one of the main heroes of ‘High Performance’. Hear @petergrimsdale talk about his new book & a time when ���Britain ruled the roads’ at #DurrantsHotel next Tues 28 May. More details about the Guest Author Evening on our website at Diary Dates (📸 @Getty images)
‘Some guests wouldn’t think of staying anywhere else in London and I can understand why,’ concludes @rebecca_lipkin in her @Arbuturian review of #DurrantsHotel. Her glowing profile wonderfully sums up what’s at its heart & soul: https://t.co/OmpchcsYL7 Huge thanks, Rebecca!
Will be great to hear @petergrimsdale chatting about ‘High Performance’ at the hotel next Tuesday 28th May and telling the audience exciting tales of the mavericks of the time when ‘Britain ruled the Roads’. More details of the next Guest Author Evening in our pinned tweet.
‘....Peter Grimsdale, the author of this fast-paced study of the British car industry and its charismatic heroes of the 1950s and 1960s, is a thriller writer and television producer and knows how to tell a gripping story.’ @justinmarozzi
He’ll be doing so @DurrantsHotel: 28 May
Rosemary Leveson Gower, Freda Dudley Ward & Thelma Furness were recalled in fascinating detail at last night’s ‘Guest Author Evening’ by #RachelTrethewey in her talk on ‘Before Wallis’.
See pinned tweet for details of next event on Tues 28 May
There’ll be lively conversation on Tuesday 28 May as husband-&-wife Guest Author duo, @petergrimsdale & @Calperson present their respective books: ‘High Performance: When Britain Ruled the World’ and ‘Confessions of a Bad Mother: The Teenage Years’.
6.15pm start. £17.50pp
Was Wallis Simpson ever the only woman Edward VIII wanted to marry? At our Guest Author Evening on 14 May, Rachel Trethewey will discuss three other women who had such an impact on the heir to the throne: ‘Before Wallis’
6.30pm £15pp Tickets to be booked in advance with Hotel
Two fascinating talks last night with the entertaining Craig Brown and Frances Welch as our Guest Author Evening series’ first husband-&-wife duo. Audience chat, book signing & sales session (thanks @dauntbooks!), fizz and canapés followed. More such diary dates promised!
Win a prize stay on Wed 24 April, £250 Dinny Hall Marylebone Lane voucher & pair of tickets for coffee morning with Dinny Hall @DurrantsHotel (25th April). To enter, follow @DinnyHall & @DurrantsHotel & tag person you’d like to bring along.
Competition ends: 18th April
Ssshhh!! We’re always discreet about our well-known guests but we can hint at one who almost did. In @ITV’s #Victoria last week, #KingLouisPhilippe plans to stay @DurrantsHotel: ‘It is well-appointed, I believe.’ (Queen V extends an invite elsewhere which he can’t refuse).
Our George Bar is among 140 gems in the ‘Secret London’ guide to unusual bars and restaurants. Coinciding with the #marylebonefoodfestival, the guide’s co-writer, Hannah Robinson will be with us on Wed 24th for book sales and signing sessions. @Jonglezpublish@palindromicals