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My day at the festival started with a walk across Cheltenham's Imperial Square in the quiet sunshine of an autumnal…

Yesterday, my day at the festival was bridged by two events that could not have provided two more different insights…

So what's it like in the Writers' Room on the first Saturday of the festival? In a word, busy. I…

My first evening at the festival started with a conversation with an older lady who had got up to let…

I have just heard Eric Hobsbawm, amongst the first of the speakers at this year's festival, talking at length about…

In the first of her reports from the Cheltenham Literature Festival Jen Tomkins picks up her press pack and gets…

The time has come for me to leave The Reader office, pack my bags and head to Cheltenham for this…

Manchester-based publisher Comma Press is promoting a new book of short stories entitled Elsewhere: Stories From Small Town Europe and…

On Saturday The Guardian newspaper printed a superb piece by James Ellroy on crime writer and sometime Pinkerton detective Dashiell…

In celebrity and not-so-celebrity interviews in Sunday newspapers one of the most common questions is a variation on "what books…

Amanda Boston writes to remind us of her Continuing Education course 'Journey to the Centre of the Book' which will…

Helen Whitehead writes to tell us about an online writing course that she is running with fellow tutor Sharon Rundle.…