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Monica Feria-Tinta is the English Bar response to David Attenborough. He broadcasts about the natural world, she is saving it case by case. Monica tells us what inspired her to write A Barrister For The Earth, which is featured at this year’s festival ‘I’ve been a barrister at the Bar of England & Wales since […]

With just two months to go, our committee is gearing up to launch our new schedule of author events in June. Here, they tell us about the final stages of organising our book festival – and, in particular, why gathering authors’ mobile numbers is so important!           Meg Reid, festival chair […]

In the next of our series, this year’s guest Tracy Chevalier tells Steph Mackentyre why she doesn’t write novels in her home study   ‘I have a little study, a very small room in our house, and it looks out over a very tiny garden. You would think this is where I would write, but […]

Julia Jones’s new book Stars To Steer By celebrates women’s involvement with sailing and the sea in the 20th century. To celebrate International Women’s Day, Julia, a guest at this year’s festival, tells us what inspired her to write about this subject Through much of the 20th century, recognition for women in sailing was rare. […]

Elly Griffiths discusses her new Victorian novel The Frozen People at this year’s festival. Steph Mackentyre asked the best-selling crime author about her work space. Elly, can you tell us a bit about where you write? ‘Well, I’m talking to you from my writing shed, which is at the top of my garden! I live […]

With tens of thousands of new books published in the UK each year, how do literary festival programmers choose? Meg Reid tells Louise Millar about the three twists of fate that led to biographer Ian Collins speaking about Ronald Blythe at the 2025 festival.                     Ronald […]