Folkestone Book Festival 2017

The annual Folkestone Book Festival is back, and the programme is as packed as ever with writers, publishers, authors, actors and comedians all ready to discuss books and their place in the world. Taking place from Friday 17th November to Sunday 26th November, it features an impressive selection of talks, workshops and performances from local

Margate Bookie Podcasts

A busy weekend of chatting with writers, authors, journalists and publishers at Margate Bookie Festival. Here’s the link to the podcasts – take a listen to Norah Perkins, Simon Medhurst, Adrian Cross, Elspeth Penfold, Julia Riddough, Anna Mazzola, Sam Gayton, Ros Anderson, Sophia Tobin, MJ McGrath, Hannah Fairbairn, Nigel West, SD Sykes, Francesca Wilkins, Eli Goldstone,

Words at the Southbank

If ever we needed proof that literature is relevant, universal and timeless, the Southbank Centre’s summer and autumn programme provides it. Across the next few months authors, poets and writers will be responding to the current political and social climate through the magic or words. John le Carré introduces his new novel, A Legacy of

Margaret Drabble gets The Novel Cure

‘No one who reads could possibly turn out like Trump.’ At least not according to the prolific and talented Dame Margaret Drabble. And, as author of nineteen novels, twice editor of the Oxford Companion of English Literature, married to Michael Holroyd and younger sister of AS Byatt, she knows a thing or two about reading.

Greenwich Book Festival

Reading is often thought of as a solitary activity, one person curled up with a book and entering into their own world of imagination and exploration. But stories are also something to be shared, words are meant for communication, and ideas brought up for discussion. Powerful and brilliant, there’s even more force in numbers, and