Lowdham, Saturday 30th June

Lowdham Book Festival – Saturday 30th June

10am – 5pm All Day Book Fair and Café, Village Hall, Main Street, Lowdham

The final Saturday of the Lowdham Book Festival is always one of the highlights of Nottinghamshire’s literary calendar. This year’s line-up of free talks and readings is especially strong. The only problem is deciding which talk to attend. Take a look at the order of play:

11am Lost Nottingham – A city in pictures, an illustrated talk by Ian Rotherham. Methodist Chapel, Main Street.

11am Skeletons, with Jan Zalasiewicz. Women’s Institute, Main Sreet.

11am Writing About Neuroscience, with Jonathan Taylor. Committee Room, Village Hall.

11am The Afterlives of Dr Gachet, with Sam Meekings. Marquee behind the Village Hall.

12.30pm The Piano Room, with Jaroslav Melnik. Methodist Chapel, Main Street.

Jaroslav Melnik (Jaroslavas Melnikas) is a celebrated Ukrainian/Lithuanian writer, and winner of the BBC Ukrainian Service Book of the Year Award. He will be reading in English and discussing East European fiction with Stephan Collishaw of Noir Press.  

12.30pm Pandemic, 1918 – An illustrated talk, with Catharine Arnold. Women’s Institute, Main Street.

12.30pm How to Read the English Landscape, with Andrew Bibby. Committee Room, Village Hall.

12.30pm New Irish Writing, with Deirdre O’Byrne. Marquee behind the Village Hall.

2pm The Welbeck Atlas – An illustrated talk, by Steph Mastoris. Methodist Chapel, Main Street.

2pm Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy Panel, with Dr Teika Bellamy. Women’s Institute, Main Street.

2pm The Shoestring Poetry Hour, with Jonathan Taylor and Robert Etty. Committee Room, Village Hall.

2pm The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness, with Graham Caveney. Marquee behind the Village Hall.

3.30pm In Transit – poems about travel, with Sarah Jackson and Tim Youngs. Methodist Chapel, Main Street.

3.30pm Viking Nottinghamshire – An illustrated talk, by Rebecca Gregory. Women’s Institute, Main Street.

3.30pm Words Best Sung, with Lee Stuart Evans. Committee Room, Village Hall.

Lee Stuart Evans is a comedy writer, for the likes of Stephen Fry, Frank Skinner and Jimmy Carr. He will be discussing his novel Words Best Sung, a sixties set coming of age story set in North Notts, Skeggy and London.

3.30pm Crime fiction, with Roz Watkins. Marquee behind the Village Hall.

The full programme can be read HERE.