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Geoff Dyer: you are about to be warned
Nothing is quite what you expect – not even the unexpected: how the only son of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker from the Midlands, who went to Grammar School then Oxford then moved around a lot and wrote a lot of books became ‘quite possibly the best living writer in Britain’ (Daily Telegraph)…
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Nicholas Crane: A Journey Through Britain’s Footpaths
Nicholas Crane writer, explorer, geographer and presenter of TV series such as Great British Journeys and Coast will be joining us at Literature & Landscape on Saturday 3 October to talk about his latest book: The Path More Travelled. Nothing connects us to the British landscape more than the 140,000 miles of footpaths that criss-cross…
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David Attenborough’s birthday and this year’s programme…
We are delighted to announce that producer, author and director Alastair Fothergill will be speaking and showing footage of his work at our Literature & Landscape festival in October 2026. David Attenborough on location filming Life in the Freezer (1993) – one of many natural history documentary series produced by Alastair Fothergill. Life on Earth…
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A Richard Mabey interview to remember
We were all rather blown away by this interview last October, when Patrick Barkham quizzed Richard Mabey about his long, ground-breaking and profoundly influential career. Our sell-out audience were still talking about it long afterwards, and as it turned out even the nature-writing master himself was struck by what had happened in that small but…
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Encouraging rural voices of the future
October 2025 saw the launch of Wells Young Writers’ group – a workshop run by author Patrick Barkham that meets about once a month somewhere in the landscape around Wells to notice and imagine. The young people – who are aged 12 and on upwards – then return to Wells Maltings to write and discuss…