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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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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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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
Will we ever see Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu on trial, asks Steve Crawshaw in Prosecuting the Powerful. As someone…
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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
Why is the history of autism male? This is a question asked by neuroscientist Gina Rippon whose eponymous book delves…
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Collision of destinies
Troubled minds and dysfunctional families meet head on in Edward St Aubyn’s latest book Parallel Lines, a sequel to his…
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Passion in Love and Art
Artists through the ages have been inspired by love, whether in the throes of an affair or the pain of…
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This Book Is The Business
Congratulations to innovative academic Tim Minshall who has been long listed for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of…
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From night owls to nightshifts
Nightmares, nightshifts and night owls all get a mention in Dan Richards‘ fascinating book Overnight in which he travels, goes…
