Book Festival Dates
Here below, a schedule of my upcoming literature festival appearances… and further below, those past…
Do keep checking this page for updates on the festivals I’ll be speaking at, there’ll be more added soon… alternatively subscribe to my RSS feed and let your browser do the checking for you…
If you are a literature festival, and are interested in a Shakespeare on Toast talk, then please contact Najma Finlay
There are two reviews (by Libby Walkup and EssentialWriters.com) of the Bath Literature Festival 2009 talk I gave to be found at the bottom of the Reviews page…
2010
February
28th – - Bath Literature Festival
March
15th – - Oundle Festival of Literature
May
18th – Gdansk, Poland (home of the New Globe)
19th – Warsaw, Poland
20th – Cracow, Poland
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Recent Talks
2008
August
SOLD OUT: 15th, 12 noon — Edinburgh International Book Festival
September
15th, 7.45pm — Sedbergh Festival of Books & Drama
October
12th, 4.30pm — The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival at Blenheim Palace
14th, 2pm — Shakespeare Bookshop, Stratford-upon-Avon
18th, 2pm — Chester Literature Festival – Storytelling Tent
18th, 7.30pm — Ucheldre Centre
23rd, 12.30pm — Guildford Book Festival – Electric Theatre
November
11th, 2pm — English College, Tallinn, Estonia
20th — Beyond Words Festival, University College, Hampstead
24th, 7pm — Shakespeare & Co Bookshop, 37 Rue de la Bucherie, Paris
28th — William Poel Festival, National Theatre
29th, 2.30pm — Hay Festival Winter Weekend – click here for an interview I gave at Hay, which was broadcast on BBC Radio Wales
December
4th, 6.30pm — Peak Festival of Books – Countrybookshop, Hassop Station, Nr Bakewell, Derbyshire
10th, 7pm — The English Bookshop, Amsterdam
2009
March
6th, 1pm – Bath Literature Festival - see Reviews for Libby Walkup and Essentialwriters.com’s write-ups of this talk…
April
2nd, 7pm – Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
4th – Reading Group Convention, Jesus College, Oxford
8th, 1pm – Stratford-upon-Avon Bookshop
May
1st, 6.30pm — Stratford Literary Festival – Panel with Christopher Rush & Jonathan Bates, chaired by Paul Allen
27th — International House, Covent Garden, London
31st, 9am — Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival – It may be early morning, but Toast will be served, and coffee will be provided by Cafedirect!
***Paperback of Toast publishes June 2009***
June
4th, 7pm — Notting Hill Waterstones
10th, 9am — BBC Radio 4, Midweek with Libby Purves
11th, 10amBBC Radio Bristol, Graham Torrington’s show, ahead of the talk at Brendan Books that evening…
11th, 7pm — Brendan Books, Old Brewery Buildings, Bath Place, Taunton, Somerset – Brendan Books was shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop Of The Year…
22nd, 6pm — Shakespeare’s Globe, Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre, ‘Speaking English in Shakespearean London’ with David Crystal
25th, 7pm — School of Life, Show and Tell with Damian Barr. Also with Laura Lockington and David Nicholls…
July
15th, 7pm — Ways With Words – a festival of words and ideas, Dartington Hall, Devon
25th, 12-2pm — Bookworm tent, Magic Meadow, Camp Bestival, Lulworth Castle, Dorset
October
22nd, — Well’s Festival of Literature, Wells, Somerset
