Hello Booklovers! Throughout this year’s festival, we have a multitude of inspiring, thought provoking and fascinating events from local people and organisations. For a special preview event, we are welcoming a much loved local artist Maggi Hambling this weekend, as she chats with Nicola Upson about her artwork and her recently published new book. And to […]

Hello book lovers! Whilst our festival brings to you the very best that fiction can offer, we are also very happy to present numerous varying and fascinating Non-Fiction events, which are more than likely to tickle the fancy of all of our visitors! For those with an interest in East Anglian artwork, Julia Blackburn will […]

Hello Booklovers! 2016 has been the year of the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and much of this year has been spent celebrating his works, his wit and his life. A timeless playwright, it is safe to say that the particular fascination surrounding the Bard lies in how his works are still as relevant now […]

There is a not altogether comfortable feel to today’s three poems. But who always wants comfortable? They tap into an intensity experienced at the fall into love, the precarious insecurity that even a lifetime of a loving relationship may not entirely dispel, or the awe inspired by an impressive presence. Alfie Davis personifies love as […]