Welcome to Hexham Book Festival 2010, all events are now available for booking. What links books about food, wine, landscape, crime, history, politics and poetry? They're all on offer at the fifth Hexham Book Festival featuring an outstanding line-up of award-winning writers, leading thinkers, controversial speakers and bon viveurs. Join historian and writer Philippa Gregory at Alnwick Castle on murder and betrayal in fifteenth century England; quaff a hundred wines with Guardian columnist Simon Hoggart; discover why writers love landscape with Margaret Drabble; expect wise words from veteran politician Shirley Williams and find a cure for love with poet Wendy Cope.
