-In conversation with Anita Sethi Caroline Lucas, former MP for Brighton Pavilion and the UK’s first Green Party MP, delves into our literary heritage to explore what it can teach…
Sir Ernest Shackleton, who lived in Eastbourne, became a national icon after venturing on four epic voyages of discovery to the Antarctic a century ago, including the famous Endurance expedition.…
Sam McAlister is a BAFTA-nominated producer who has negotiated with everyone from Buckingham Palace to The White House, persuading reluctant individuals to participate in BBC Newsnight interviews, renowned for rigour and…
Flash Fiction, broadly speaking, is a story told in under one thousand words. Sometimes as few as six. This diminutive literary form, far from being restrictive, encourages authors to explore…
Chaired by Professor Ivor Gaber Our panel of activists in different spheres of public life will bring their expertise and experience to shine a light on topical concerns raised by…
Britain is a nation of gardeners; the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely admired and copied across the world. But it is little understood how millions…
A play performed and written by Jenny Rowe James Tiptree Jr. was known as a CIA official, an international traveller and an “ineluctably masculine” writer of science fiction. But in…
Join Joseph Coelho, children’s author, poet and former Children’s Laureate as he shares his route in to writing and the journey from idea to book for his Fairytales Gone Bad Series, illustrated…
Join celebrated Sussex author Kate Mosse in conversation as part of the launch tour for her much anticipated latest book, The Map of Bones. A story of adventure and hardship, dispossession…
Registration from 10am. Refreshments and bookstall available all day. This will be our third Fatal Shore festival of crime writing, led by best-selling authors Elly Griffiths and William Shaw and featuring…
Expert quiz master and multi-million best-selling author Mark Edwards is joined by authors Kat Diamond and Derek Farrell to test how well you know your crime – on TV, in…
An illustrated talk by Vivien Morgan The talk answers all the questions of why young women dressed as men to fight as soldiers in the 17th to 20th centuries. There…
