We published lots of blogposts over the weekend: catch up with them all here
Interviews
- Patrick Gale discusses his new novel A Place Called Winter
- Philip Wells the Fire Poet discusses poetry and activism
- Horatio Clare talks about Down to the Sea in Ships
- Jill Murphy reflects on The Worst Witch series
Reports on talks, sessions and workshops
- The Novel cure: a literary prescription to ease your woes
- Responses to the poetry of Wells and Field
- A John Betjeman walk around Trebetherick
- In pictures: on the John Betjeman walk
- The fiction of Tiffany Murray and Matt Haig
- Horatio Clare: capturing the beauty and wilderness of the sea
- The Rev Richard Coles and Nina Stibbe
- Victoria Field Workshop: The Poetry Cure
- Dr Jenny Balfour – Textales: If Cloth Could Talk
- John Crace on sketch writers – the pirates of the papers
- Like lime through feathers: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Ella Berthoud and John Crace discuss ‘What is fiction for?’
- Festival finale: Louisa Young interviewed by Patrick Gale
Personal responses and creative writing
My favourite book: festival-goers and authors share their favourite volume
- My favourite book: 1984
- My favourite publisher: Peirene Press
- My favourite book: Kayla the Pottery Fairy
- My favourite book: A Month in the Country
- My favourite book: Frenchman’s Creek
- My favourite book: Rebecca
- My favourite book: Dr Zhivago
- My favourite book: The Shipping News
Our brilliant festival team was: Jay Armstrong, Sarah Purnell, Annie Harrison, Anna Cathenka, Aysha Bryant, Shannan Sterne, Sarah Cave, Emma Gibbs, Paige Davis and David Brady. Thanks also to Sorrel Watson for her interview.