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Festival Weekend Finale

Online ticket sales close at 3pm today, so be sure to book before then to be sure of a seat….

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Ros Ballaster
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Reliving Austen In True Style

The 250th anniversary of novelist Jane Austen’s birth will be celebrated by two of her biggest fans on Saturday, the…

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Kit Mackintosh
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Personal Poems On Request

Kit the Poet is packing up his portable typewriter and bringing it to the Festival where he will write poems…

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Fine Food at the Festival

Eight local eateries just a short walk from Cedars Hall are offering Discounted Dining for festivalgoers who book in advance….

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Gary Wigglesworth Quiz Master
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Still time to book the Quiz

Brainy bookworms have the chance to test their literary know-how at the Festival’s fun quiz night at Cedars Hall. Once…

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Horatio Clare at sea
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Small boats, big Hearts

We Came By Sea, by Horatio Clare, gives a different side to the small boats crisis from the one we…

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Winner Masud Husain
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Top award for Masud Husain

Festival speaker, neurologist Masud Husain, has won the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize for his book Our Brains,…

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justice for war crimes
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justice for war crimes

Will we ever see Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu on trial, asks Steve Crawshaw inĀ  Prosecuting the Powerful. As someone…

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Pre-Festival orders at Waterstones
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Pre-Festival orders at Waterstones

Pop up to Waterstones in Wells High Street to pre-order copies of books by any of the speakers you look…

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The Lost Girls of Autism
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The Lost Girls of Autism

Why is the history of autism male? This is a question asked by neuroscientist Gina Rippon whose eponymous book delves…

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