THE ESSEX BOOK FESTIVAL IS WELL AND TRULY LAUNCHED - CHECK US OUT AT www.essexbookfestival2023

 

GREAT BEGINNINGS

We don't know about you but we had a fabulous opening weekend. It was a joy to listen to Guardian journalist Polly Toynbee talk about her memoir An Uneasy Inheritance at Anglia Ruskin University - don't forget to book your tickets for Robin Ince's event at ARU on Thursday 15th June - followed by a fascinating programme of events at Harwich including the inspirational Lady Unchained and broadcasting legend James Naughtie.

We're now limbering up for next weekend's events including Tim Burrows talking about his new book The Invention of Essex at Hedingham Castle on Saturday 10th June (our partnership event with EA Festival). Then The History Books at Layer Marney Tower, which opens with historian Leo McKinstry talking about Cinderella Boys, the remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who rescued Britain from Hitler's U-Boats and made Allied victory possible.

Then it will be time for us to shake the cobwebs off the walking boots and join artist/writer Lora Aziz for our Radical Pilgrimage along The Saffron Trail from Southend to Saffron Walden - you might want to join us for that.www.essexbookfestival2023