Waking at 4:40 am, the journey from Surrey to Wales is a blur. A noisey rush along empty motorways, some hair-raising buffeting on the Severn bridge, and then a drawn out, madcap dash down a warren of country roads to…
Tag: Literary Festival
With over 100 literary festivals flooding the UK’s burgeoning festival market, www.literaryfestivals.co.uk is devoted to publicising details about all the UK’s festivals, and is the perfect resource for anyone looking to indulge in their next festival fix. Of course, if you were…
The dates for the Hampstead and Highgate festival has just been announced as 19 – 21 September, 2010. The festival is one of London’s answers to the increasingly popular literary festival scene, and aims to celebrate North London’s literary heritage, with…
As the book festival season settles across the UK, Manchester’s Children’s Book Festival is set to take place from 1st-4th July. Aside from book readings, children’s activities and a chance to meet authors, the festival is challenging as many people as possible…
From 3rd-17th July Oxfam will be holding a bookfest across all its 700 stores in the UK, which will include a wide variety of book-related activities—from author events through to kids activity days, auctions and competitions. So if you’re in…
For some reason my life is always at its busiest during the Hay Festival, and, to prove a point, this year I’ve been so busy as to nearly forget the UK’s crown jewel of Literature festivals. Nonetheless, the UK’s busiest annual literature…
As the English Summer warms up and the mad dogs and Englishmen run riot in anticipation of the sunshine, it seems a touch unmannered to consider the Autumn. However, since the Guildford Book Festival has announced this year’s dates as…