Rebecca Fletcher is an experienced literary chair and also resident host at The Yard Hampshire where she has curated a programme of live author events for the past three years, hosting sell out evenings for a variety of authors and personalities including Nikita Gill, Clover Stroud, Jessie Burton, Viv Groskop, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Minnie Driver, Lorraine Candy, Emma Gannon and Women’s Prize Founder, Kate Mosse to name a few. Her ‘in conversation’ style events have covered numerous topics from music and art to farming and fashion, women’s issues, history, fiction and science. She has chaired headline events at Winchester Books Festival and Farnham Literary Festival, hosted large book tour events in collaboration with the team at Hungerford Bookshop Events including an exclusive evening for Robert Harris’ latest novel, Precipice, and interviewed Professor Dame Mary Beard and author Alex Michaelides to a sell out audience at The Queen’s Reading Room Festival 2024 at Hampton Court Palace. Rebecca also co-hosts a monthly live book club on Instagram, Are You Sitting Comfortably, with Rebecca Lovatt from @myenglishcountrycottage which has featured a range of authors including Charlotte Mendelson, Kate Morton and Nina Stibbe.