Join us for an evening celebrating the career of this renowned and much-loved poet, playwright, biographer, children’s author and novelist. From her debut poetry collection The Adoption Papers (1991), to her latest, May Day (2024), Professor Jackie Kay CBE’s career has seen her win numerous awards: she has also served as a university chancellor and […]
As well as Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage, the wonderful Robin Ince is the man behind books including The Importance of Being Interested and Bibliomaniac. His latest, Normally Weird […]
When the Beatles burst onto the music scene in 1962, they brought with them a counterculture that was to have far-reaching effects: Beatlemania became the catalyst that unleashed a revolution […]
Jerome K Jerome, (Three Men in a Boat) parodied the Victorian taste for spooky amusements with a series of comic horror stories. Enjoy a portmanteau of tales, told by an […]
Ever loved a book so much you wanted to eat it all up? Now’s your chance to immortalise a literary favourite in cake form. Whether you’ve got cake decorating skills […]
It wouldn’t be a book festival without the ever-popular history walk with Andrew Simpson. Join him to explore the lost hamlet of Martledge, discover the story of our agricultural past and hear a few mysterious tales. Meet outside the library for the walk, then it’s all round to the Dressing Room Cafe at The Edge […]
After a career in politics, law and publishing Marcia Hutchinson MBE presents The Mercy Step, her acclaimed debut novel. A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world, finding herself in a chaotic household that seems to have no place for her. Mercy finds solace in books, and imagination, but escapism has limits, and […]
Celeste is Colette’s third novel. Her first, The Secret To Not Drowning, won the Brave New Reads Award and was a Mumsnet book of the year. Captain Jesus, her second, was published in 2020. When Celeste stops to take a stone out of her shoe one night, she’s just moments from her house. Next morning, […]
Closed shops and roast dinners, bulky papers and the hum of lawnmowers, strolls to nowhere in particular and visiting snoozing grandparents. Through an assortment of rituals and activities, Sundays came […]
Manchester was a hidden gem in the Arts and Crafts movement. This beautiful book tells the history of a northern craft revival that was neither rural, nor London-focused, but an […]
Chill the bones of your readers this Autumn with Andy Murray's short story craft course.Learn how to build suspense, how to deftly handle ambiguities, how and when to scare your reader, and how to play around with story form and structure to achieve tension.We'll journey from that most terrifying of concepts; a blank page, and […]
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