Clare Balding

Join us for a cosy evening of stories with much-loved broadcaster, TV presenter and author Clare Balding.

Enjoy an evening with Clare Balding in conversation, as she explores her debut fiction novel, Pastures New. She’ll also be spilling the secrets behind her thirty years of broadcasting and how we can find home in the most unexpected of places. 

Clare will also be taking your questions and sharing the secrets behind her bestselling books and will be signing and dedicating copies of Pastures New.

About The Book: Pastures New

Brimming with the warmth and wit that has made Clare Balding one of our best-loved TV personalities, Pastures New is a joyful celebration of new beginnings, community, and the delightful surprises of rural life.

Sometimes home is where you least expect it…

Alex has perfected the art of dodging responsibility during her almost 40 years — until an unexpected letter turns her life upside down.

She’s inherited a crumbling sheep farm in wildest, wettest Wales. This was not her life plan. Not at all.

Now, her closest companion is a grumpy Welsh terrier, she’s speed-reading The Idiot’s Guide to Farming, and her arrival has set the village gossip mill spinning. With the farm near collapse and its community now relying on her, Alex sets out to uncover the truth behind her mysterious inheritance. Then she can finally get back to the carefree life she thought she wanted.

But as secrets surface, Alex finds her heart pulling her in a direction she never saw coming.

Will she pack her bags – or has she landed exactly where she’s meant to be?

‘Funny and moving, James Herriot meets David Sedaris’ The Times

‘Forthright, thoughtful, funny … reads like a Jilly Cooper novel’ Sunday Times

We’re delighted to be hosting this evening event with Clare and hope you can join us to celebrate the publication of Pastures New at HOME Manchester.