I’ve just had a flick through the programme for the Lichfield Festival (PDF). There’s some good stuff, presided over by a new Festival Director, Fiona Stuart. Names I recognised – Rich Hall, Laura Solon, Jenni Murray, Claire Sweeney, Adrian Edmonson, Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Ex Cathedra and Rachel Gillies. Lichfield Festival website.
Birmingham Book Festival are having an extra one-day festival on 29 May this year. The line-up of events (shamelessly nicked from their website) looks like this: National Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns to Birmingham for another much-anticipated reading. Novelist Helen Dunmore talks about her new novel Betrayal. Novelists Amanda Smyth (Black Rock), Aifric Campbell (The … [Read more…]