With the 2016 Festival beginning next month, now is a good time to look back at the impact many of our speakers have been making over the past few months: Arkady Ostrovsky won the Orwell Prize. Tom Holland has been presenting Making History on BBC Radio 4 Alexandra Harris’s Weatherland was serialised on BBC Radio…

Plans are well under way for a bumper Festival this autumn to celebrate our Silver Anniversary. We are delighted to show off our new website in World Book Week, a week when our invaluable education projects get a prominent airing! The Education Committee is proud to announce the events arranged for the week and funded…