Welcome
Be entertained and stimulated at this year’s Festival and join us to celebrate many anniversaries and landmarks – Dickens’ bi-centenary; Captain Scott’s centenary; the re-launch of the Hogarth Press; the Olympics and the Jubilee. Follow the vibe from Tahir Square to the Square Mile; the English rural idyll to the New York Jazz scene; revolutionary Paris to Bletchley Park; Ab Fab to Accrington; sensuous art to pioneering photography; heroic explorers to A list novelists. Dream new dreams and beat austerity gloom at the Festival, where books, ideas and creativity bloom.












