WORDS of Bromsgrove - Updates

"Of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness,' wrote Virginia Woolf of Jane Austen. In John's talk, which will look closely at passages from Austen's novels, he will try to catch what is brilliant about them. We will see how Austen takes us into the...

As its second Event in The 2025 Bromsgrove Festival, WORDS welcomes Sir Laurie Bristow, who was the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to Afghanistan when the Taliban overthrew the government and took power in August 2021. His book, “ Kabul: Final Call “, is a first hand account of the final days of...

Lord Brady of Altrincham, formerly Sir Graham Brady, became a household name in the fourteen years of the recent Conservative Governments, elected as Chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee in the House of Commons amidst the most turbulent times in modern political history. In this role,...

At 7.30.p.m. on Wednesday, May 7th, Louise Minchin is the guest of WORDS in The Studio at Artrix, where she will be in conversation with Linda Mather to talk about her writing career and her debut novel - “ Isolation Island “. Louise is most famous for her twenty year stint on BBC...