Three weeks to go!
Join us in three weeks time for Jacobean court drama, environmental action and local authors, with their take on writing and publishing.
And, due to popular demand, we have increased capacity for Rory Cellan-Jones with his heartwarming book about adopting, befriending, and learning to love a shy rescue dog from Romania.
Read on!
RORY CELLAN-JONES
SUNDAY 5TH OCTOBER
Adopting a pet can be challenging. Rory Cellan-Jones received the trembling Sophie in a van from Central Europe and thus began the process of growing together through love, kindness and a great deal of patience.
Sophie from Romania follows the journey of her adoption – as Rory and his wife work with a dog trainer to win her trust, and navigate Rory’s Parkinson’s disease diagnosis.
LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT
SUNDAY 5TH OCTOBER
As King James I’s favourite, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham was the King’s gatekeeper, right-hand man and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and first minister. Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire, and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Francis Bacon’s empiricism and public opinion was becoming a political force.
ISABEL LOSADA
SATURDAY 4TH OCTOBER
Finally! A book about saving our planet that is fast, funny, and inspiring. With humour, heart, and heaps of practicality, Isabel delves into every corner of modern life – how we live and work, travel, shop, eat, drink, dress, vote, volunteer, bank – everything.
From digital decluttering to how we can use the law to protect our local environment, Isabel takes the reader on a journey of environmental action. She talks Guy Watson of Riverford to understand food and farming, and even goes to Knepp to question rewilding.
By the end, both narrator and reader are armed with the tools to become part of the solution.
LOCAL AUTHOR DISCUSSION
SATURDAY 4TH OCTOBER
Three local authors will discuss the challenges, the opportunities and the preparation of writing, publishing and promoting their books. Aspiring authors will be offered advice on the writing process and a route to publication that is best for them. There will be plenty of opportunities for questions.
Publisher Gavin Jamieson, will lead the discussion with Marisa Linton, writer of Young Adult fantasy book The Binding Spell, Iain Maclean, author of TJ’s War, a historical novel inspired by his father’s life as an MI6 agent during WWII and Jane Dalton, with her first novel With Love from the Afterlife, a contemporary suspense story.
We hope to see many of you at the festival!
Best wishes
Cuckfield Bookfest Team