Brighton Book Festival

The first ever Brighton Book Festival ran between 9-12 June and we were pretty pleased with how it went. There was a nice piece in the local paper the week before and a good review of one of the events I had helped to put in place to round off the festival.

It was a small scale festival, with events ranging from a few people in a pub discussing Molesworth to a crowded ghost story evening in the Grand Hotel. The events I ran went well, with a lively talk on conspiracies by Ian Shircore, author of the forthcoming Conspiracy! book, an atmospheric poetry reading from Nicola Wood and finally a wonderful tribute to Brian Barritt from John Higgs, friend of Brian and author of I Have America Surrounded. The latter was held in the packed out Iambic Arts Theatre and went down really well. It was funny, revealing and occasionally a little rude. As John said afterwards 'Who knew I could get away with doing stuff like that?' 

That should become the Bookstock mantra.