Hello booklovers, Suddenly it’s December and our 2021 festival feels like a lifetime ago. We hope you are enjoying the start of the festive period. Here at FbF we’d like to spread some cheer and give you all some early Christmas presents… in the form of announcing a few of our guests for our 2022 […]
Nature Writing: Matt Gaw and James Canton
Hello booklovers, It is a truth universally acknowledged that many of us have developed a deeper appreciation of the natural world over the past year. We have been observing more, listening more, growing more and thinking more about how we approach our natural surroundings. As we head further into Spring, hopefully with warmer weather round […]
Female Perspectives: Esther Freud, Helen McCarthy, Jojo Moyes, Juliet Nicolson
Hello booklovers, This week we’ve decided to highlight festival writers who put women and the collective experience of womanhood, at the forefront of their work. On the 8th of March, we celebrated International Women’s Day. In the same week, women across Britain mourned the murder of Sarah Everard, which triggered an outpouring of personal experiences […]
A Twist in the Tale: Crime Fiction with Harriet Tyce, Kate Rhodes and Louise Millar
Hello booklovers, Crime fiction has always been an immensely popular and dominant genre, from the post war golden age crime novels of the 1920s, 30s and 40s to the wide ranging crime novels that adorn our shelves today. This is largely thanks to riveting plots, eye popping crimes and terrifying twists that send the imagination […]
Approaches to History: Edoardo Albert, Paul Gething and Esther Rutter
Hello booklovers, One of the many beauties of books is that they allow you to enter different worlds which as readers we may well have never discovered before. Some of our brilliant 2021 guests, Edoardo Albert, Paul Gething and Esther Rutter examine periods of our history in completely different, and completely riveting, ways. In Warrior: […]
An Ode to Motherhood – some poetry for Mothering Sunday
Hello booklovers, Today on Mothering Sunday, I give you some thoughts on a poem by Sylvia Plath, an exciting new anthology of poems from author Ana Sampson (who will be featuring as a guest at Fbf’s 2021 online festival) and some musings on a feathered friend… Whilst out on my daily stroll a few days […]