Tiverton Book Festival 2024, the authors, the venues and books!

A week full of literary treats.

The day we moved into Tiverton from Buckinghamshire one of our new neighbours knocked on the door to introduce themselves while we...

My mum was an avid reader, and it was she who set a fire under me! By the time I started primary school in Hong Kong where we lived at...

Figuring is a lovingly crafted work of heart-swelling, sublime splendour, written by Maria Popova – beloved curator of the website The...

I am not going to talk about THAT book. It’s had the sort of publicity in a few days that top selling authors would give their...

Goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023. This year gone we have seen our coffee shop close and then merge back into the bookshop. This was a...

I wonder how many of us turned into big kids last Saturday morning when we opened the curtains to find snow on the ground? I do not...

The snow has fallen before Christmas, which I can't remember happening since 2010. I've worked in retail my entire working life, since I...

Book shops are magical places. The air is full of stories whispering in your ear, infinite possibilities of being taken to different...

A billion-dollar corporate battle that has been raging in the book world looks to have reached its final chapter. But its beginnings are...

Book publishing is alive and kicking and clearly book buying is, at worst, still breathing. You only need to enter any bookstore to...

Any serious reader will have a TBR pile. That is Twitter parlance for ‘to be read.’ One of those anacronyms that keep invading our lives...

George Orwell said: ‘In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.’ It is a quote apt for our times on...

Breaking addiction I see Ian Rankin’s latest John Rebus novel is out. The 24th in a long line of successful and excellent crime fiction....

Egrets, we have a few Life and structure on the earth is ever shifting. The place does not standstill, though it does not move along in...

Taking Risks Coming as I do from the edge of Snowdonia it was no surprise that by the age of 11 my dad was taking me rock climbing. It...

Problems with apples There are a few authors whose every book I have or will read. Among them are Lawrence Durrell, Dylan Thomas, Ian...

With Paul Mortimer Born in North Wales, poet & writer Paul Mortimer has lived in Tiverton for 13 years. His first poetry collection,...

Book review written by Paul Conium Cornerstones by Benedict Macdonald You’d be forgiven for thinking that there is no good news anymore....