AmpLiterary 2023

Ampthill Festival

Parkside Community Hall

Ampthill Festival 2023

Ampthill festival is an a fantastic event set in heart of Mid-Bedfordshire.
2023 sees Rocks, Proms and Gala Day starting on the 14th July through the 16th July.
Independent not for profit  volunteer run and organised community event.

L﻿ine up and timings subject to changeMorning sessions (individually priced)10.00 – 11.30 Alison Morgan ‘How to Plot a Murder’ workshop, to get all creative crime minds whirring - £10.0010.00 – 10.45 Olaf Falafel author, illustrator and a stand-up comedian KS2 Event - £5.00Afternoon session £1513.30 – 14.30 A panel discussion on the theme of love in all of its guises with authors Tasneem Abdur-Rashid (Finding Mr Perfectly Fine), Mike Gayle (The Museum of Ordinary People, All The Lonely People, Half A World Away) and Bethany Clift (Love and Other Human Errors, Last One At The Party)30 min break15.00 – 16.00 Andrew Hunter-Murray scriptwriter and senior researcher for BBC2's QI interviewed by Ali Nicholl discussing his latest book The Sanctuary.30 min break16.30 – 17.30 Claire McGlasson local author of The Rapture comes to discuss her latest release ‘The Misadventures of Margaret Finch.Evening session £1519.00 – 20.00 Robin Ince comedian, writer and broadcaster. A joyful, obsessive chat about books and bookshops.30 min break20.30 – 21.30 London Literary Tour present Gossiping Groups &amp; Wicked WitsThe literary world has a long history of writers putting people they know – including other writers -- into their work. Pastiches and leg-pulling can be a source of gentle amusement, but occasionally the joke goes too far, and thinly-veiled references slip into naked personal attacks. And that’s what happened among the fashionable literati of London in the 1920s, where everyone knew everyone, and everyone was fair game.With an illustrious host of characters -- including Aldous Huxley, Katherine Mansfield, D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and Noel Coward – and readings from their works, this talk-cum-performance by Mike and Cindy of London Literary Tours focuses on the salons of the Garsington Set, the Bloomsbury Group, and the Sitwells, and the cliques and coteries orbiting them, with stories funny and shocking of literary mockery and its fallout.Book shop, bar and tea room with light refreshments available from 12 noon.

Afternoon session

Panel discussion

Andrew Hunter-Murray

Claire McGlasson

Evening session

Robin Ince

London Literary Tour

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