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A warm welcome to our website, and we cannot wait to welcome you back in person as you come to our beautiful medieval village for the 2022 Festival which runs from Friday November 18 to Sunday November 20.

How wonderful, after these difficult years, to engage again in person with  authors, and we already have an exciting range of authors booked.  Making a welcome return to speak in the Village Hall is our 2021 Festival Dinner Speaker Alan Johnson.  Alan has turned from major politician, and memoir-writer to writing crime fiction. On Saturday we have our much-loved historian Tracy Borman and best-selling novelist Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (in conversation with her husband Paul Venables whose voice will be familiar as Jakob in The Archers).  Beloved poet Wendy Cope will be reading and discussing her work.  Thomas Harding, author of The House by the Lake will be speaking about his latest book White Debt the story of the Demerara Uprising by the enslaved people of the British Colony.  Andrew Lownie will also be joining us on Sunday 20 November as will the Natural History writer Patrick Barkham.  Simon Edge author of Anyone for Edmund? will speak at the Guildhall on Friday evening. Further speakers will be announced shortly.

https://www.lavenhamliteraryfestival.co.uk/