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'The Aldeburgh Literary Festival was started in 2002 by John and Mary James of The Aldeburgh Booksho ...
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'Appledore Book Festival is a charity founded in 2006 by Nick Arnold, author of Horrible Science, in ...
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'Showcasing superb writing talent from all over the island of Ireland ... Bring people together to e ...
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'Aye Write is Glasgow's Book Festival, and Scotland’s second biggest book festival. It was founded i ...
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'A celebration of literature, music and art in the heart of Seamus Heaney country ... A child ...
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'Barnes BookFest is an inspirational weekend literary festival based in South West London.' Normally ...
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'London’s largest dedicated children’s literature event ... Barnes is put on by families for familie ...
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'Europe’s largest dedicated children’s literature festival with a vibrant array of talks and activit ...
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'The UK’s national festival of the humanities. A celebration of humanities research through publ ...
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'Each June we invite you into our beautiful Victorian home to meet, watch and listen to storytellers ...
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'The Friendly Festival in a Walled Town ... A volunteer-run event, supported by local sponsors and g ...
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'Beyond Borders Scotland runs a summer programme of cultural events, culminating in the Beyond Beyon ...
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'Taking place every year in October, the Birmingham Literature Festival is a leading festival in the ...
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'Born from the minds of a few avid readers back in 2019, we successfully raised donations and variou ...
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'Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival ... Based in Stirling, Bloody Scotland has brought ...
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'BOOKMARK, established in 2012, has developed a reputation for being a friendly, well organised Book ...
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'Borderlines Book Festival has been developed through partnership working between public and private ...
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'The Festival has grown over the years to be more than just books. Discover health and wellbeing cla ...
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'Normally held at the magnificent Dumfries House, the Festival has become one of the most prestigiou ...
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'An annual arts event and year-round cultural outreach programme that hosts respected authors, poets ...
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'BRIDLIT has expanded significantly over the years and we hope that our programme of events ... is m ...
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'Making the Marginalised Mainstream ... Brighton Book Festival exists because Afrori Books and The F ...
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Dickens and Broadstairs  'In 1937, to commemorate the centenary of the author's first visit, Gladys ...
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'Situated in an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on East Devon’s Jurassic Coast, Budleigh Salterto ...
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'Spring & Winter festivals | Literary events throughout the year ... Cambridge Literary Festival ...
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'Cheltenham Literature Festival is the world’s first literature festival, leading the way in celebra ...
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'Cheltenham Poetry Festival offers an annual 10 day program of exciting live literature events. As w ...
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Normally held Mid November: 'One of the longest-running annual literature events in the country ... ...
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'We aim to offer lively, entertaining and informative events: performance, illustrated talks, lectur ...
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'Chipping Norton Literary Festival is created and run by volunteers. All the fizz and sparkle of the ...
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'Brings together top authors and their readers for a week of history, poetry, biography, creative wr ...
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'Our mission is to encourage a love of literature as it relates to faith, and to create a thoughtful ...
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'Established in 2017, the Festival has featured a stellar international cast of novelists, historian ...
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'The people of Colonsay, like many communities large and small, have always shared a love of books a ...
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'CYMERA is first and foremost a book festival. That means our festival team works with publisher and ...
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'A week-long bilingual arts heritage and literature festival in Mold, Flintshire and surrounding are ...
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'Celebrating the joy of books and reading ... The Festival plays a key role in supporting the econom ...
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'Organised by writers for all those who enjoy the written word. Our aim is to give you the opportuni ...
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'Just some of the charming comments received about the 2023 Dulverton Exmoor Literary Festival from ...
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'Durham Book Festival is a Durham County Council event produced by New Writing North and is part of ...
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'It is a distinctive international showcase celebrating the written word, literature and ideas. It b ...
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'One of the highlights of the county’s cultural calendar. Each year the festival hosts 100+events in ...
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'A celebration of words in all their forms, written, spoken or sung.  The events we put on include: ...
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'Faclan: The Hebridean Book Festival was founded in 2006 and now takes place during the celtic festi ...
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Normally held Late June: 'The Friends of Felixstowe Book Festival is a group for those who would lik ...
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'Folkestone Book Festival has its origins in the Kent Literature Festival which started in 1980 in t ...
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'We began in 2002, very much the brainchild of local literature enthusiast Philomena Dwyer and a cre ...
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Aberdeen' Crime Writing Festival  'Granite Noir is inspired by the incredible popularity of crime fi ...
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'Established in 1989, Guildford Book Festival is staged annually over 8 days across venues within th ...
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'Celebrates writers and lovers of the written word - a welcoming and open place for everyone. Ou ...
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'One of the worlds’ leading art and literature festivals, bringing readers and writers together to s ...
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'Established as one of the UK’s biggest book festivals.' Normally held Early October.
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'An annual festival for the benefit of the people in Hertfordshire. Our county is home to dozens of ...
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'A Not for Profit CIC delivering an annual festival that takes place in and around Hexham in Spring ...
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'An award-winning annual Festival with community, accessibility and inclusivity at its heart. Join u ...
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'The Festival is held over 17 days at the start of October in this miniature Victorian spa town at t ...
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'Our aim is to use the extraordinary power and reach of Agatha Christie’s global reputation to promo ...
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'Set against the stunning backdrop of Scotland’s whisky isle, we’re a community led festival with an ...
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'An established event on the UK Arts calendar: held its first festival in 2012. The festival provide ...
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'An annual international literary festival, held in London. Every year, the festival brings together ...
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The King's Lynn ‍Literature ‍Festivals ‍are ‍held during ‍a ‍single ‍weekend ‍in ‍March ‍(Fiction) ‍ ...
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'Litfest is a volunteer board-run organisation operating in Lancaster and the surrounding areas.  We ...
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'Ledbury is a lively market town, close to the Malvern Hills AONB.  It is well-known for its bla ...
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'Leeds Lit Fest is delivered by a partnership of 9 Leeds-based creative arts and literature-based or ...
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Held in a 'beautiful former fishing village nestled on the Cleddau on the edge of the Pembrokeshire ...
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'The global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print ...
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'Open to everyone, the Lit Fest will bring together leading figures from the literary world for an e ...
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'Unites readers of every age to celebrate the written and spoken word ... It's the longest-running l ...
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'LYRA is the annual Bristol Poetry Festival. Lyra is a festival which brings together local, nationa ...
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'A Write Highland Hoolie is Mallaig's Book Festival based in Mallaig at the end of the Road to the I ...
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'A celebration of imagination, ideas, stories, and voices from around the world. It is part of Manch ...
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'We celebrate the best of writing and literature during our annual festival held in the beautiful ma ...
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'Each year, in October, residents of the small town of Mere in Wiltshire, along with their friends, ...
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'Devoted to motoring books, magazines, art and automobilia ... The weekend will include a programme ...
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'A Community Effort to bring a #NoBarriers book festival to Inverness and the Highlands ... All of o ...
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'Starting in 2017 as a two-day event that brought authors, illustrators and readers toge ...
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'The North Cornwall Book Festival is part of the year round activity of the Arts Charity, Endelienta ...
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'One of the best known festivals in the UK ... Books, reading, ideas and conversations are at the co ...
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'Established in 2002 as a successful springtime event, the Oundle Festival of Literature has evolved ...
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'In reviving the Oxford Festival – we are determined to reinforce our longstanding commitments to: * ...
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'We have created a beautiful space where a community of people can come together and connect to each ...
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'The Paisley Book Festival is supported by Future Paisley, the wide-ranging programme of events, act ...
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'Our first festival was in November 2016 and we hold them annually. We also work with local and nati ...
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'Our line-up celebrates women, Black and Asian artists, the LGBTQIA+ community, disabled and working ...
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'Proms at St Jude’s is a community festival of music and culture taking place each June in Hampstead ...
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'Queen’s Park is a hidden, family-friendly gem in North West London centred on a 30 acre park surrou ...
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'We celebrate great writing and leading thinkers, sharing stories to as wide an audience as possible ...
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Provides a unique mix of daytime walks and evening talks to both inspire and invigorate you: Be insp ...
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'Stories and songs are vital for human survival. They carry our emotions, memories and values. They ...
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'Sea Fever is North Norfolk’s festival of poetry and prose. It aims to celebrate all forms of the wr ...
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'An annual celebration of live poetry, workshops, panel discussions and debate, based in the heart o ...
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'Established in 2002 with the aim of bringing the brightest and best of current authors to the area ...
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'Shoreham Wordfest has a growing reputation across the South East, supporting local creativity and a ...
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'On the Easter Ross Peninsula: Inspiring A Community With Creativity ... Authors, the Arts and Herit ...
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'StAnza's mission is to celebrate poetry, to bring poetry to audiences and to enable encounters with ...
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'Since 2008 we've been bringing you an exciting mixture of debate, ideas, celebrity author events, w ...
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'Founded in 2016 ... Stroud Book Festival has grown from a small local event to a full, ...
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'The Festival is inspired by the famed author Daphne du Maurier, who spent a large part of her life ...
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'It’s the friendliest Festival with its feet firmly on Yorkshire ground. Hang out with your heroes, ...
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'Community-run charitable trust bringing world-class literary events to Ayrshire at affordab ...
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'Ullapool Book Festival is an intimate and welcoming literary festival on the shores of Loch Broom i ...
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'An eclectic and lively mixture of events covering literature, poetry, comedy, history, science, the ...
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'Set up in 1992 to promote the love of books and of reading throughout the community ... Our main ob ...
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'A ten day literary celebration in Scotland's National Book Town. Wigtown is a traditional market to ...
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'Wimbledon BookFest is a not for profit charity promoting arts, culture and education. Our aim is de ...
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Biennial Festival [2023] founded in 2013. Events can be held between the Full Festivals, including t ...
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'Writing is for everyone. It’s turning up, sharing our stories and creating change on the page. We h ...
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'The Festival began in 2007 under the auspices of York City Council. After the cuts which followed t ...
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