The event is run by The Aldeburgh Bookshop which has been in business for nearly 60 years. The owners, John and Mary James, took on the shop in 2000 . In April 2005 they won a 'Nibby' (the Oscar of the booktrade) for Independent Bookshop of the Year at The British Book Awards. Impressive.
When? The 15th Aldeburgh Literary Festival will take place from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th March 2016.
Who? 2016- Jonathan Dimbleby , Frances Wilson +
Festival Website: The Aldeburgh Literary Festival
Enquiries on 01728 452587
Established? 2001
The event is run by The Aldeburgh Bookshop which has been in business for nearly 60 years.The owners..
Previous festivals :
2015 Max Hastings, Kate Mosse, Helen Macdonald , Kate Charlton-Jones, Simon Winder+
2014 - Lucinda Lambton - Patrick Gale on novels and mothers - Alan Powers on Eric Ravilious - Frances Welch on Rasputin - Professor Mark Miodownik on Stuff Matters - Patrick Marnham on Snake Dance - Sarah Dunant on Blood and Beauty, a Novel of the Borgias - Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher - Peter Hennessy: Distilling the Frenzy--Writing the History of One’s own Times - Hermione Lee on Penelope Fitzgerald - Jon Canter and John Lloyd: The Life and Works of Douglas Adams - Tom Holland In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World - Miranda Seymour: Noble Endeavours: The Life of Two Countries, England and Germany, in Many Stories - Professor John Mullan: What Matters in Jane Austen—Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved - Nicholas Shakespeare: Priscilla: the Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France
Before that....
Michael Holroyd, Alexander McCall Smith, Margaret Drabble, ,Sebastian Faulks, Nigel Lawson, Harry Eyres, Irene Noel Baker, Paul Binski, Frances Spalding, Anthea Bell, Anatole Kaletsky, Ferdinand Mount, Edward Lucas, Mary Dejevsky, Justin Marozzi.
Two Nobel Literary Prize winners, Harold Pinter and Doris Lessing, Michael Frayn, Alan Bennett, A. S. Byatt, Julian Barnes, Will Self, Richard Dawkins and Matt Ridley
Charles Moore described the festival in his Spectator diary as 'quite the nicest literary festival' (click here to see the full entry). Charles Allen wrote that he and his wife had 'been to many literary festivals but I can honestly say that Aldeburgh's combination of bracing sea air, intimacy and intellectual sharpness puts it at the very top of our list.'
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