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Watch again: John Mullan interviews Alan Hollinghurst
Please take the opportunity to catch up via our Youtube channel with talks you may have missed in 2025. Here is Booker-prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst discussing Our Evenings last October with John Mullan – UCL professor of literature and regular pundit of all things bookish for the BBC and The Guardian. We asked Alan to…
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What did you think?
It’s been over a month now since our festival in Wells. We hope you had as much fun and as interesting a time as we did: we loved the exhibition and artists, the writers, their books and fascinating careers, and the many, many discussions – formal and informal – that sprang out of such a…
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Storm Amy visits Literature & Landscape
With six outdoor events from a boat trip to walks through woods or over a salt marsh to – literally – a walk in the park – we watched our plans teetering as Storm Amy and the festival weekend closed in, locked in embrace. Last year had been all sunshine and gloriously filmic early autumn…
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What was our place like before all of this?
Tibor Fischer’s short story ‘Crushed Mexican Spiders’ follows a young woman living in Brixton, London, who returns to her flat to find her key no longer works and that someone else is inside living her life. You never find out what is going on, but her sense of displacement is overwhelming, and sometimes it can…
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What is it about birds?
This beautiful shot is of the wader spectacular at RSPB Snettisham during the Literature & Landscape festival weekend last year – taken by Mark Cocker and shared with his kind permission. It is a reminder that North Norfolk’s 100 miles of coastline is part of a super highway for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds,…