Great news! We have managed to get James Runcie as our Sunday speaker. He is the author of The Grantchester Mysteries, Visiting Professor at Bath Spa University, and a fiction reviewer for The Independent.
Beside the Grantchester Mysteries his books include: -

• The Discovery of Chocolate
• The Colour of Heaven
• Canvey Island
• East Fortune

The Grantchester Mysteries have recently been adapted to become the ITV/PBS Masterpiece series GRANTCHESTER starring James Norton, Robson Greene, Morven Christie, Pheline Roggan, Tessa Peake-Jones and Al Weaver.
James is a literary polymath, directing plays, dramatised readings at the Southbank Centre e.g. tributes to Seamus Heaney and Maya Angelou; and high-end documentaries on cultural subjects e.g. J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life; and interviews of leading writers e.g.  Hilary Mantel, J.K. Rowling. 

Breaking news is that Alison Chisholm will be teaching a Specialist Course on poetry for us this summer.........that means we now have over nine hours of poetry tuition and courses plus our poetry Open Mic Night! Full details of the course will follow soon.

​Alison writes regular poetry columns for Writing Magazine and Springboard, and has
written various textbooks and a correspondence course on poetry. Her poems have
appeared in magazines, anthologies and eleven collections, and have been broadcast on TV
and radio. She gives talks, readings, courses and workshops around Britain and overseas, and
adjudicates poetry competitions.