Review: The Myth Of Creation, Charleston Festival, Firle, May 20 ★★★★
HOW did a teenage unmarried mother come to create one of literature’s most famous monsters?
Preview: Trailblazing women take the floor at Charleston Festival
CHARLESTON Festival plays host to an array of dynamic thinkers, artists and writers next month. CAROLE BUCHAN previews three events based around the work and lives of extraordinary women
Sophie Hannah on staying true to novel detective ahead of talk at Small Wonder at Charleston
ASK writer Sophie Hannah what she feels about Agatha Christie and her most famous detective Hercule Poirot and she replies that Christie is in her “literary DNA” and writing about Poirot is like “writing about a very close friend.”
Write your own Small Wonder and win tickets to literary festival at Charleston
The Argus and Small Wonder are giving away two day passes to the festival for the writer of the best 500-word work of fiction, to be chosen by a panel of judges.
Writer who proof read gravestones to earn living while studying publishes first book
A WRITER who proof read gravestones to earn her living while studying has published her first book.
Diana Reich tells Carole Buchan about her 25 years as artistic director of Charleston Festival
Bellowing cows, spurned lovers and death threats – it’s all in a day’s work for Diana Reich, artistic director of the Charleston Festival.
Arts Council chair Peter Bazalgette on the similarities between the Bloomsbury group and today’s reality TV
For chair of Arts Council England, Peter Bazalgette, the leap between the subversive and avant garde Bloomsbury group and today’s reality TV is not as wide as it may seem.
