Journey far and wide with Hungerford’s Literary Festival
Friday, 13 October to Sunday, 15 October 2017
This year’s Hungerford Literary Festival, which runs from 13 to 15 October, is inspired by the theme of Journeys.
For your passport to these events head to www.ArtsForHungerford.Com to purchase tickets or buy them from The Hungerford Bookshop (01488 683480). Pick up a programme from the bookshop, library and other businesses around the town.
Martin Bell has stood in war zones as both a soldier and a journalist. From Vietnam to Bosnia to Iraq, he has witnessed first-hand the dramatic changes in how conflicts are fought and how they are reported. In an age of international terror, more and more reports are issued from the sidelines. The dominance of… Continue reading →
Intrepid historian and travel writer, Tom Fort, willingly gets on his trusty bicycle and covers the length and breadth of England to discover the essence of village life. His journeys will travel over six thousand years of communal existence for the peoples that eventually became the English. Littered between the historical analysis, will be personal… Continue reading →
Author of the fantasy adventure series The Secret Society of Dragon Protectors and now The Secret Adventures of Rolo, Debi Evans will be signing copies of Jewel Dog and the Dragons, It stars Rolo, the rescued Jack Russell. The little dog sees more mythical creatures in his fourth time-travelling adventure – especially dragons. Historic journeys… Continue reading →
I Must Belong Somewhere tells the stories of the author’s great-grandfather and grandfather; each of whom was forced to flee his country and forge a new life elsewhere. But this is no ordinary family history. Jonathan Dean visits the places that changed the course of his family tree in the 20th century – Vienna, Cologne,… Continue reading →
Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver, as well as a teapot. Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great… Continue reading →
Alastair Sawday has spent his life travelling. Born in a wooden shack 9,000’ up in the mountains in Kashmir his love of adventure began as a teenager in the 1960s when he set sale for Massachusetts. Then came teaching in St Lucia, and on to Trinidad and Guyana. The lifeblood of Sawday’s work is a… Continue reading →
Calling all budding young writers! Deborah Patterson and Nicola Chester will be leading children on a story-writing adventure. Tour the library with Nicola to find and stack books to create some ‘book spine’ poetry. Afterwards Deborah will use a classic adventure story as inspiration for some fun writing activities on the theme of ‘Journeys’, and… Continue reading →
A talented photographer Joan Leigh Fermor defied the social conventions of her times. She featured regularly in the gossip columns, not only for her affairs and her fashionable clothes, but for her intrepid travels to Russia and America. In 1944 in Cairo, she met Paddy Leigh Fermor, lionized for his daring kidnap of the Nazi… Continue reading →
The story of following the wind from the fells of Cumbria to the Alps, the Rhône to the Adriatic coast, to explore how these unseen powers affect the countries and cultures of Europe. ‘A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder’ -Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun Nick Hunt sets off on an unlikely… Continue reading →
Jules Mountain is a survivor. The odds of surviving his type of cancer were one in five. The odds of dying on Everest are one in 60, but these are severely shortened when factoring in an avalanche triggered by the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Jules lives to tell both tales, conveying the agony and euphoria that… Continue reading →
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