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2025 Alderney Literary Festival Programme  

PROGRAMME PDF

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Friday 28th March 2025

10.00 - 11.00

Opening Panel Discussion on the Festival theme
Weaving the Historical Narrative: the linearity of time

11.30 - 12.30

Rosie Garland
​Out of the Margins and reclaiming centre stage

12.30 - 13.30

LUNCH
Island Hall

13.30 - 14.30

Leo Vardiashvili (Debut Author)
In conversation on Hard by a Great Forest

15.00 - 16.00

Simon Scarrow
From Alderney to Anhalter Station

16.30 - 17.30

Clare Mulley
Agent Zo: the untold story of a Polish freedom fighter
Saturday 29th March 2025

10.00 - 11.00

Lesley Downer
Writing Unfamiliar History: the history of Japan

11.30 - 12.30

Lavie Tidhar
In conversation - Rooting in the dirt of the past
 

12.30 - 13.30

LUNCH
Island Hall
 

13.30 - 14.30

Eleni Kyriacou
In conversation - When facts and fiction meet: drawing inspiration from historical true crime

15.00 - 16.00

Ellen Alpsten
From Fact to Fiction

16.30 - 17.30

Anna Abney
Character versus content
Sunday 30th March 2025

10.00 - 11.00

Flora Johnston
Paris 1919: a fragile peace

11.30 - 12.30

Anthony Riches
Some historical events may not have occurred where you think they  happened.
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Dickens and Travel high-res jkt.2022
folly & Malice
Between the chalk jacket
PEACH BLOSSOM SPRING - UK paperback cover
OldTowns jacket
Black Butterflies jacket
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