I'll be opening the festival in the beautiful setting of Fishbourne Church in Sussex on Saturday morning at 10 am. It's quite a programme, with a great range of authors. Hope to see some of you there. I'll be talking about the background to two recent books, The Garden of Angels and When The Germans Come.
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