A few tickets left – www.cambridgewordfest.co.uk

This weekend Cambridge plays host to Winter Wordfest. It’s a fantastic festival which also runs in the Spring and is popular with authors and readers alike. There’s a brilliant line up for Sunday and lots of opportunities to chat in the ADC bar between events. I shall be in conversation with National Trust Chairman Simon Jenkins, who has written A Short History of England but am also looking forward to hearing Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens, Darian Leader on Madness, Ian Hislop on Private Eye.There’s always controversy, debate, food for thought and moments of literary brilliance. As a patron of Cambridge Wordfest I may be a little biased but this is one of the highlights of the literary year and is undoubtedly a festival with attitude.