Sean Langan is a British journalist, documentary filmmaker, BAFTA nominee – and kidnap survivor. Armed with only a camera, Sean has worked in volatile situations, in environments noted for war, conflict and civil unrest, from Latin America to Iraq to Zimbabwe.
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Idolised by fellow idlers and despised by 9-5ers, Tom Hodgkinson is a modern day God – albeit one of lazy pleasures and idle pursuits. Editor of the The Idler, a bi-annual cult magazine – heaven forbid he and co-founder Gavin Pretor-Pinney should raise their pens the other ten months of the year! – Tom has also written several books on the art of lazing. At this year’s festival he’ll be talking about idle parenting and generally revealing the secrets of an idle life.
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Untitled Books will be running a Literary Lonely Hearts Club for the three days of the Port Eliot Festival. They'll be bringing writers and poets with them and hosting a programme of readings and events, alongside which they'll be doing their utmost to bring the beautiful folk at Port Eliot together...
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Poet, performer, playwright, educator, lecturer, biographer and editor, Phil Bowen leaves no stone unturned in his unfaltering advocacy of poetry. Using sparkling wit, wiley-fox wisdom and resounding wordplay, Phil has been converting poetry naysayers, young and old, for the best part of a decade. This year he’s set his literary sights on the higgledy piggeldy crowds of Port Eliot.
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William Fiennes is a critically acclaimed author and writer. His first novel, The Snow Geese, won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize for literature and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He was the Sunday Times’ Young Writer of the Year in 2003, and has been described as “one of the finest stylists of his generation” (the Sunday Times). His second novel, The Music Room, has just been published this spring.
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Celebrated ‘fishing and culture’ website, Caught By The River, has gained a cult following for its evocative call to escape the rat race and celebrate the most important things in life – time, pleasure, books, music, cake and much more. Brought to us by Jeff Barrett, Robin Turner, and Andrew Walsh, Caught By The River will be hosting a special area by the estuary and presenting a varied mix of happenings in keeping with the website's unique spirit.
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Lynne Hatwell, aka Dovegreyreader – the "Devonshire based bookaholic, sock-knitting quilter who used to be a community nurse in her spare time" – has blogged daily at dovegreyreader scribbles for three years; mostly about books (470+ at the last count) but also about knitting, quilting and life in the very beautiful Tamar Valley... and then back to books again.
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Writer, musician, composer, nightclub host, actor and all-round legend, Richard Strange has played a key role London’s cultural life for the last 30 years. The Sex Pistols, Joy Division and The Jam supported his first proto-punk band, The Doctors of Madness, in the 1970s. Since then, Richard has remained as diverse as he has prolific; working with Tom Waits and William Burroughs, writing numerous articles and books, and appearing in films like Batman and Gangs of New York.
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Award-winning novelist and broadcaster Marcel Theroux is the author of three successful novels: The Stranger in The Earth, The Paperchase – for which he won the Somerset Maugham award in 2002 – and A Blow to The Heart. His newly released narrative Far North confirms his prolific talent, as Brandon Robshaw (the Independent) says: “Theroux is a master storyteller, and the narrative is as full of surprises as it is of murders.”
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Susie Boyt’s latest book and fifth novel, My Judy Garland Life (Virago, 2008) “blends autobiography with biography to create something magical, poetic and truly original”, writes psychoanalyst Darian Leader. No stranger to acclaim, Boyt’s previous work has also been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (The Last Hope of Girls) and the Mind Award (Only Human).
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