About
Charlotte - novelist & festival co-founder
NOVELIST
Poetry and poetic writing are somewhat lacking in the English literary landscape these days. And yet to feel and feel the rhythm of language so that it sings to you is one of the great experiences of reading. If you try Cry the Beloved Country or the tales of Lilian Beckwith or the later novels of John Buchan or anything by Yeats and you remain unmoved, then perhaps my writing is not for you (not that I am for one moment putting myself at their level, she adds hastily). But if you like a little magic, stylistic or narrative, if you like to read stories that are fractionally out of reach, if you like to lose yourself in the imaginative world that is made possible by means of the written word, then maybe we can talk.
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FESTIVAL PRODUCER
Both my parents, together and separately, were great lovers of the arts. The Edinburgh Festival was part of the warp and weft of our lives and I have happy memories of going to plays, concerts, ballet, opera and feeling the rush that you feel when you witness great people doing great things.
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With the Lake District Book Festival, I am looking forward - along with co-founder Christopher de Bellaigue - to helping great things to happen, to bringing 'the world to the Lakes and the Lakes to the world', in the process, giving pleasure and real benefit to a part of the country that we love. June 2026 here we come...