Posts by Jackie Kaines
Take a bow: Simon Garfield wows with his celebration of dogs
Simon Garfield will be speaking about his book ‘Dog’s Best Friend: A brief history of an unbreakable bond’ at Berwick Literary Festival in October 2021. Here he gives insight about his work and writing process to Festival blogger George Cochrane.
Read MoreWhat links Gordon Brown, Simon Armitage, William Dalrymple and Salley Vickers?
Gordon Brown, Simon Armitage, Salley Vickers and William Dalrymple will all be celebrating words at Northumberland book festival Berwick Literary Festival in October 2021
Read MoreFull programme announcement coming soon…
The programme for the eighth Berwick Literary Festival the Northumberland book festival will be announced soon
Read MoreFestival taste and see
New short film: A taste of the Festival The Festival team is delighted to announce the arrival of a brand new short film. Designed to promote the Literary Festival and…
Read MoreLiterary Festival Box Set
Berwick Literary Festival 2020 presents brilliant talks to enjoy at your leisure. Celebrating words: written spoken performed. Poetry, politics, history, trending…
Read MoreWritten, spoken, performed
That’s it folks. Four days. Twenty Events. Record attendance from 34 different countries.
Read MoreStephen Green: rethinking what we think we know
If you were concocting a fantasy dinner party guest list, you’d want a good mix of people to keep the conversation flowing. A government minister, maybe. The CEO of a global bank for a view of how the world works, and a clergyman for a rather different perspective. Throw in a linguist who’s lived in the US, Asia and Saudi Arabia, a civil servant, an author, a chap who visited 56 countries in three years boosting UK trade, and… oh hell, we’re out of cutlery.
Read MoreSaturday: Festival quotes
If you heard Jessie Greengrass speak at today’s Festival, I’m guessing that you, like me, will be rushing to order her new book The High House. This deep-thinking, candid-speaking interview…
Read MoreFriday: Festival quotes
Shaun Bythell joined us from his bookshop – The Bookshop – in Wigtown. Following his first two books about shop life (The diary of a bookseller and Confessions of a…
Read MoreThursday: 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.…
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