Posts by Mike Fraser
GRANTCHESTER COMES TO BERWICK 17-20 October!
With some well-known names coming to the Berwick Literary Festival this autumn, Mike Fraser, one of the programme organisers, was interviewed by Michael Gallico, next year’s Chair of the Steering Group. Tell me more about the Festival We’re in our sixth year and proud to be part of Berwick’s exciting Autumn Festival season. It’s run…
Read MorePoppy Holden – Border Ballads & Thomas the Rhymer
Published with permission from Poppy and ABC Radio Download audio Saturday 27 April 2019 11:30AM (view full episode) IMAGE: CHRIS DAUNT’S ARTWORK ‘TWO MAGICIANS’ FROM THE BOOK ‘BORDER BALLADS FROM ETTRICK AND YARROW’ BY POPPY HOLDEN. (SUPPLIED: POPPY HOLDEN) In the 1970s, the soprano Poppy Holden was a vital – not to say unique – part of Europe’s musical avant-garde.…
Read MoreKatharine Tiernan is in the News! Click here!
Praise for Katharine’s Tiernan’s recent novel, Cuthbert of Farne, based on the life of the North’s favourite saint. Tiernan has a flair for psychological insight and an imagination that fills in the gaps in the historical record without ever doing violence to what is likely. She is also possessed of a vivid visual imagination, and…
Read MoreFestival Highlights
Once again, the Berwick Literary Festival is proud to welcome acclaimed local, national and international contributors. Here are some highlights of this year’s exciting programme to whet your appetite. Fiction is especially strong this year with Salley Vickers, Chris Mullin and James Runcie promoting their latest novels, while Berwick-based Jessie Greengrass will discuss her debut…
Read MoreFestival Highlights
Once again, the Berwick Literary Festival is proud to welcome acclaimed local, national and international contributors. Here are some highlights of this year’s exciting programme to whet your appetite. Fiction is especially strong this year with Salley Vickers, Chris Mullin and James Runcie promoting their latest novels, while Berwick-based Jessie Greengrass will discuss her debut…
Read MoreDuncan Campbell – Exposing the Criminal Underworld
There are almost 5000 criminal gangs in the UK. But the old family firms are gone – today’s underworld is multi-national, diversified and tech-savvy. Read all about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/04/inside-the-21st-century-british-criminal-underworld Then hear Duncan at our Festival: 20th October @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Visitor Centre (downstairs) Duncan Campbell was the Guardian‘s crime correspondent and chairman of the…
Read MoreKaty Loves Dirty Dancing
Katy Brand – I Carried a Watermelon We are delighted to announce that Katy Brand will be wowing an audience at our festival a week before her new book I Carried a Watermelon is published. Don’t worry she will have lots of copies to sign! Katy Brand – I Carried a Watermelon is a love…
Read MoreOne of our 2019 Participants, Jessie Greengrass, has been nominated for a major Literary Prize for her novel Sight! The press release is below.
An appealing mix of books illuminating themes such as gender, identity and race form the shortlist for the centenary awards of Britain’s longest-running literary prizes, announced today. Contenders for the James Tait Black Prizes include a novel inspired by computing science pioneer Alan Turing and a debut novel about a woman’s journey into motherhood (Sight).…
Read MoreJohn Mackay Wilson – Tales of the Borders in the Berwick Advertiser once again!
“Health and Home are Powerful Magnets”. John Mackay Wilson – the Writer of Tales of the Borders and Editor of the Berwick Advertiser 1832-1835 The Editor of the Advertiser is publishing weekly Tales of the Borders. In doing so he is following in the footsteps of one of his most distinguished predecessors as Mike Fraser…
Read MoreBerwick Literary Festival 2017 – Fun, History, Fiction, Poetry and Football!
Berwick Literary Festival 2017 – Fun, History, Fiction, Poetry and Football! Ian McMillan and Tony Husband top the bill at this year’s festival (19th to 22nd October) with a fun, improvised history of Berwick, while the latter will also deliver a sad but also amusing account of his Dad’s dementia. There will be other participants…
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