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In researching novels based on real life historical events, author Sarah Day has followed eighteenth-century explorers to Russia and a group of persecuted gay men to the Tremiti Islands. She has explored a hidden church beneath a swimming pool
Amber Massie-Blomfield travelled from the tip of Cornwall to the Isle of Mull to discover Britain’s most astonishing theatres. In rural communities and the inner-city, Amber found haunted halls, stages hewn from granite cliffs, and squeezed int
Poet Suzannah Evans reads from her 2018 poetry collection Near Future and discusses her writing experiences. Set in an all-too-imaginable Earth where resources are insufficient for human existence and asteroid storms threaten the solar system,
We’re delighted to welcome Damian back to Gladfest – he was the very first event of our very first festival! You Will Be Safe Here is Damian’s first novel. Set in South Africa in 1901, at the height of the Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her s
Mountaineering literature is a traditionally male-dominated genre. Stephen Harper’s best-selling Ladykiller Peak (1965) claimed that mountaineering by ‘the weaker sex’ was a form of ‘women’s rebellion against man’s natural assumption of command
The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne’s ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth – the beautiful, confounding
Emily Brontë: misanthropic, enigmatic, awkward. But was she? Is Heathcliff’s creator really what we think we know of her? In this biography with a twist, Claire O’Callaghan conjures up a new portrait of one of the English canon’s most well-know
In a time of upheaval and division – political, cultural, religious – what can be done to find a common ground? Join Pádraig Ó Tuama (leader of Corrymeela, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organisation), and Zia Chaudhry (Director of L
In Victorian Britain rags were recycled into paper. Many of the urban poor made their living from collecting rags which were processed in paper mills before eventually being transformed into paper for books and newspapers. The personnel involve
Two key figures in the cultural renaissance of our local area, Artistic Director of Theatr Clwyd, Tamara Harvey, and founder of Pedlars and The Good Life Experience, Charlie Gladstone, talk to the Library’s Warden, Peter Francis, about their cu
There ARE still wild places out there on our crowded planet – and Dan Richards has spent the last few years visiting some of them. From Cairngorm bothies to fire-watch lookouts in Washington State, Roald Dahl’s writing hut to a lighthouse in th
We were delighted to welcome Patrick back to Gladfest with his latest book, Take Nothing With You. A Sunday Times bestseller within a week of its launch at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Patrick’s 16th novel tells the story of fifty
Neil has appeared in the film adaptions of Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, as well as producing The Missing Hancocks for BBC Radio 4. But he is also an antiquarian book dealer, and has recently spent much o
Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in the ancient Romani language; the places her family stopped and worked, the ways they lived, the superstitions and lores of their
In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run-down library in the market town of East Mole. Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole for
Herbert Powyss longs to make his mark in the field of science - something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London. He hits on a radical experiment in isolation: for seven years a subject will inhabit three rooms in the ce
'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.' Drawing on this Irish saying, poet, storyteller and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama relates ideas of shelter and welcome to journeys of life, using poetry, story, biblical reflection and pro
After a wonderful Hearth session in November 2018, we’re bringing poetry and what it can mean for mental health to Hearth’s older sibling. Three of the North-West’s best poets, Angela Topping, Angi Holden and Deborah Alma, discuss the written w
Along with Sally Tomlinson, Danny Dorling has written one of the most interesting books on a subject that has threatened to overwhelm us all: Brexit. Called ‘the must-read book about Brexit’ and ‘a much-needed mirror’, Rule Britannia suggests t
We ran out of time in Kit’s 2018 festival interview, so we brought her back for another hour! Kit doesn’t only write bestselling fiction: as editor, fundraiser, and promoter she has been the energy behind a 2018 anthology of contemporary workin
Join one of Gladfest’s most notable, energetic speakers for another trip into the surprising side of the Victorian age. In 2017 Simon found an illustrated novel, published in 1877, on the shelves at Chetham’s Library, Manchester. The Story of a
Our first ever 'Gladfest discusses...' session! A panel of Gladfest speakers, Damian Barr, Kit de Waal and Sarah Perry, take on the relationship between writing and power, exploring some of the most significant historic and contemporary example
Do you know the Rosy Gilchrist novels? If you don’t, you should! They are some of the wittiest crime fiction there is. Rosy Gilchrist works at the British Museum and lives a quiet, blameless life – until in 1952 her aunt is murdered. Rosy goes
Joe Moran has an eye for the small, everyday things that quite a lot of us might miss – or at least not notice to the same extent. His writing examines mundane phenomena from motorways to watching television, and (in Queuing for Beginners) he i
A special preview of the black comedy from one of Wales’ most exciting new playwrights. Hear writer Emily White, director Tamara Harvey and the stars of the show talk about this bold and brilliant play. Set in a run-down spa town in Wales, Pavi
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