Join The Beaumont for a complimentary evening with award-winning author Sarah Sands

Celebrating the best of British writing, The Beaumont is launching a digital version of its previous sold-out literary evenings, bringing together the world’s best and brightest non-fiction writers to read from their latest work.

The series continues on Tuesday, April 20 with a reading of The Interior Silence: 10 Lessons from Monastic Life (Short Books) and a Q&A with the book’s celebrated author and former editor of the Evening Standard and the BBC's Today `Programme, Sarah Sands.

Suffering from information overload, unable to sleep, Sarah Sands has tried many different strategies to de-stress... only to reject them because, as she says, all too often they threaten to become an exercise in self-absorption.

The Beaumont is partnering with Heywood Hill as its official bookseller.

The Book

From a Coptic desert community in Egypt to a retreat in the Japanese mountains, we follow Sands as she identifies the common characteristics of monastic life and the wisdoms to be learned from them; and as she discovers, behind the cloistered walls, a clarity of mind and an unexpected capacity for solitude which enable her, after years of insomnia, to experience that elusive, dreamless sleep.

“This book shows that tranquillity of spirit is worth searching for.” – John Humphrys

The Author

Sarah Sands is a journalist and author. A former editor of the London Evening Standard, she was editor of the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 from 2017 to September 2020. She lives in Norfolk.

Timings

18.30 London / 13.30 EST: Reading and In-Conversation with Sarah Sands, followed by a Q&A (via Zoom)

THE BEAUMONT'S LITERARY SERIES

The Beaumont Hotel launched its literary series in 2018, bringing together the world's best and brightest non-fiction writers to read from their latest works. As part of the series, we showcase young writers alongside established literary names, putting a spotlight on intelligent and intriguing non-fiction stories with our overall aim being to put together a series of stimulating and engaging events. To date, we have hosted Annabel Rivkin & Emilie McMeekan, Sir Nicholas Coleridge, Marcus Berkmann, Sir Simon Jenkins, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott and Bettany Hughes OBE.

With every hotel bedroom brimming with hard-bound books and a private dining room named after The Lotos Club in New York - one of the oldest literary clubs in the United States - The Beaumont is a fitting host for this celebration of authors and writing.