Tag: Events
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Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2022
I was in Aotearoa New Zealand’s only Booktown over the weekend for the seventh Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival which featured 50 events, 100 presenters, and 18 booksellers. Stories Off the Beaten Track After driving through some truly wild weather, we arrived in time to catch “Stories Off the Beaten Track” in the Joy Cowley Room…
G B Ralph
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Hay Festival 2021 is online and kicks off next week
The literary festival (one of the world’s biggest and best) is usually hosted in the small town of Hay-on-Wye on the border of England and Wales. With a resident population of 2000 people it boasts around two dozen bookshops, including many second-hand and specialist shops. This year the Hay Festival is back, and it’s all…
G B Ralph