Regency romp revisited
Comedian Rachel Parris, best known for her TV appearances on The Mash Report and Late Night Mash, brings some racy…
Pick of popular scientists
Science writers Masud Husain and Tim Minshall, both speakers at this year’s Festival, have been picked for the shortlist of…
Football season kicks off
As the football season kicks off this month, the Festival is delighted to host two of the sports greatest fans….
Royal Revelations
Searing revelations about Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson have stirred up a storm of interest in biographer Andrew…
A strange journey into history
Sophy Roberts, a speaker at this year’s Festival, is on the shortlist of the 2025 Wainwright prize for conservation writing…
Festival supports Wells Ecoweek
Health, climate change and conservation are all hot topics, and not only is the Festival hosting three speakers on relevant…
Congratulations to Booker Prize nominee
Award-winning novelist Andrew Miller’s latest book The Land in Winter has been longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 and has…
Friends Event Success!
Remnants of woolly rhinos, hyenas, bears, wolves, aurochs and other species long extinct in the UK are among the fossilised…
Recipes for success
Women whose lives have been successful in wildly differing ways are just some of the highlights of this year’s Festival….
Winning story
A speaker at last year’s Wells Festival of Literature has been awarded this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction for her…