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Thursday: quotes of the day
Hearing and seeing writers talk about or perform their work is always a great privilege. They have such interesting things to say. Biographer Ann Thwaite told some brilliant anecdotes today.…
Day one: poetry, biography history
Still time to book for events later today. Online and free: register via the Festival website.
Four days. Twenty events. We are go!
It’s all getting very exciting here at Literary Festival HQ. We’re entering Festival Week and we can’t wait for you to meet our superb line-up of writers, thinkers and performers.…
Register now: online & free
Registration for the online and free Berwick Literary Festival opens today – September 14. Make sure you visit the website and book your sessions as soon as you can. Programme…
Ann Thwaite, biographer: An extraordinarily interesting life
Register for free for this event – Click here Eminent biographer Ann Thwaite joins the 2020 online and free Berwick Literary Festival on Thursday 15th October at 4pm. Her work includes…
I ran away to a remote Scottish isle. It was perfect
Register for free for this event – Click here From The Observer 26th July 2020 Crowded out of the city by noise and stress, I embraced the wild solitude of a…
A message from the Wonderful Dyad Theatre Company!
Dyad Theatre provided a highlight of our 2019 programme and we were looking forward to their return in 2020. Now we can only hope that they will be able to…
Lady Sybil – a Northumbrian woman who witnessed War and Revolution in Russia
Register for free for this event – Click here Simon Boyd, author of Lady Sybil: Empire, War and Revolution (Hayloft Publishing Ltd, 2017), writes about his remarkable grandmother Lady Sybil Middleton…