A SUPERB line-up of travel writing experts will share their experiences at this year’s Sherborne Travel Writing Festival.
The festival is returning for its third year at the Powell Theatre from April 11 to 13.
Festival curator Rory MacLean, a travel writer of more than a dozen books, has put together an exciting programme of talks to motivate, inspire, and excite armchair and intrepid travellers alike.
This includes the globe trotting music PR Guru Alan Edwards, author of I Was There, who will open the festival by spilling the beans on what life was like travelling the world with rock icons -including hitching a lift in the Rolling Stones private jet.
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Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times best-selling author, will also introduce her new book, The Figurine, a unique Cycladic Bronze Age statuette, set amidst the murky world of treasures stolen from excavated archaeological sites.
Sophy Roberts will close Saturday’s proceedings discussing The Training School for Elephants, which charts her investigation of a hitherto untold story of a 19th-century colonial expedition through Tanzania, Donegal, India, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Jonathan Lorie will host ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Travel’ on Sunday morning and share his tips on how to get work published, drawing on his personal experience as a prolific travel writer, travel magazine editor and leader of the UK’s only MA in travel writing.
Weekend festival tickets, with entry to all 12 talks, including free parking all weekend, cost £100 for Sherborne Literary Society members and £120 for non-members.
Individual session tickets cost from £10 per member and from £12 for non-members.
Membership of the Sherborne Literary Society is only £10 a year, which includes a discount on books bought from Winstone’s Bookshop in Sherborne. Visit www.sherborneliterarysociety.com
Accommodation recommendations can be found at www.sherbornetown.com
Sherborne has an hourly train from both London Waterloo, via Salisbury, and Exeter, and the Powell Theatre is an easy 10-minute walk from the station.
Sherborne is a two-and-a-half-hour drive from London, one hour from Bath and Bristol, and approximately an hour’s drive from the Jurassic Coast.
Tickets can also be bought from Winstone’s Bookshop in Sherborne.
For further information about the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival, contact Helen Brown at sherbornelitfest@gmail.com or call 07515 554549.
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