PUTTING some big literary names in front of book lovers, Bewdley Book Week returns this Monday promising to be a record year.
The annual event this year has polymath Raymond Tallis, BBC World Affairs producer Oggy Boytchev, bestselling author Katie Fforde, and the UK’s Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, making it the festival's biggest ever line-up.
There is also a strong local element to the 2015 programme. Bestselling romantic novelist Dinah Jefferies has confided to the organisers that Bewdley is the UK location in her first novel Separation. She first came to live in the town after spending the first nine years of her life in Malaysia. She is sure to be quizzed on her recollections and her views on Bewdley today.
Bewdley Bards and Bewdley Historical Society also figure in the programme. The Bards will share their love of words with readings from their poetry and prose and The Historical Society will reveal some interesting new stories about the town's people from the past, including a Wribbenhall railwayman’s First World War experience and the travels of a Bewdley clockmaker.
For details of the Bewdley Book Week programme and online ticket reservation, visit bewdleybookweek.org.uk.
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