Borderlines Book Festival – Carlisle

Borderlines Book Festival – Carlisle

Bookends, the fabulous independent bookshop in Carlisle and Keswick, is now responsible for two successful book festivals – Words by the Water in Keswick and Borderlines in Carlisle where this photograph was taken on Sunday, November 16th. The happy sight of...
Tring – November 14th and 15th

Tring – November 14th and 15th

Tring in Hertfordshire is a town I know very well because my sister, Linda, lived there in the late 60s/ early 70s. I now know it for the book festival that Ben Moorhouse, owner of the town’s independent bookshop, organises every year. This year I participated in the...
‘Harold Wilson: Twentieth Century Man’ goes paperback.

‘Harold Wilson: Twentieth Century Man’ goes paperback.

On November 6th my concise biography of Harold Wilson went paperback. I love the photograph that the publisher, Swift Press, unearthed to adorn the cover. The ubiquitous pipe is prominently displayed in a pose that somehow captures Wilson’s potent combination of...
Mold and Wrexham

Mold and Wrexham

Just as Phil Collins famously did Band Aid concerts from Wembley and Philadelphia on the same day, so I managed two book festival appearances on the afternoon and evening of November 7th. The 2pm matinee was at Mold Library where my namesake, Caroline Johnson...