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Showing posts with label #HLF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #HLF. Show all posts
Tuesday, 13 October 2020

My love of LitFest season

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An intriguing nugget I've learnt from my two weeks of #litfest indulgence? The novelist Ann Patchett slipped into her favourite ballgow...
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

White privilege, black lives

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The Black Lives Matter protest came to the small market town of Henley yesterday, a mark of how widespread the movement has become. We were...
Wednesday, 10 October 2018

Removal quotes and books

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Two themes are dominating my notebook this week - literary festivals and our imminent move to a new house. In amongst pages of removal quote...
Wednesday, 11 October 2017

Twelve new things I learnt last week

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Notes from the Henley Literary Festival 2017 My son meets children's author Katherine Rundell, who researched her latest novel Th...
Thursday, 5 October 2017

Can Clegg save us from Brexit?

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Notes from the Henley Literary Festival 2017 I've always been slightly intrigued by  Nick Clegg . A silver-tongued, liberal politician...
Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Poetic truth

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Notes from the Henley Literary Festival 2015 My favourite event in Henley's social carousel has come round again. For one glorious wee...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014

The quiet determination of Doreen Lawrence

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Notes from the Henley Literary Festival...  Doreen Lawrence , Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, made a startling observation at the Henley ...
Monday, 29 September 2014

An audience with Jojo and Daisy

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Notes from the Henley Literary Festival...  A few years ago an editor friend of mine at Headline Review sent me a copy of My Last Duches...
Thursday, 3 October 2013

My literary week

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Dame Stella: MI5's first female head Credit: James Gifford-Mead We had a marvellous day out last Saturday: we went en famille to an...