Arriving in London in 1938 as a penniless, teenage Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform publishing, championing Nabokov, Simone de Beauvoir, Saul Bellow, Edna O’Brien, Isaiah Berlin, Golda Meir and many more.

Thomas Harding, the internationally bestselling author of Legacy and Hanns & Rudolf, returns to the festival to discuss The Maverick, the first biography of this complex and fascinating figure, in conversation with social historian Anne de Courcy.

An event from Jewish Book Week 2024