A number of national historians will be appearing at this year's Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival which runs from 17th - 20th September. Full details can be found at www.budlitfest.org.uk.Of special note are:
- Rachel Holmes talking about her latest biography on Eleanor Marx.
- Ruth Scurr talking about the remarkable seventeenth gentleman - John Aubrey.
- Peter Nasmyth talking about East Devon's Literary Heritage
- Jessie Childs - God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
Also on the programme are:
- Dame Hilary Mantel ( Budlitfest's President) - historical novelist - twice Man Booker Prize winner talking about her third novel on Sir Thomas More.
- Judith Kerr - celebrated novelist born 1923 who wrote 'When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit' based on her own experience of escaping Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
There are also many other events with authors of national and international acclaim, please see the web site for further details box office information.