Writing is a solitary business, and so is reading. Here is a chance to celebrate both together in a kind of cultural communion. Well, a literary frolic at least. A chance to meet the men and women who have the courage to choose the words, tell the stories, and make the poems.
Authors talk to readers.
Most are workshops for children and treats for teachers but Bernard Cornwell is an adventure for everyone. There follow twelve days of earnest exploration and exciting entertainment, cool communication and crazy competition, laudable lectures and dangerous discussion, teasing talks and storywalks, serious stuff and comic guff. And then mark your own diary, so that during the first twelve days of May you join us, to discover that fine writing and good talk instructs as it delights and leaves us feeling never quite the same again. His books are read by millions worldwide and have been made into successful films. For the publication of his latest Sharpe novel, Sharpe's Prey , the best-selling author makes a rare visit to England from his homes in Cape Cod and Florida.