Bond girl Fiona Fullerton launches Cotswolds literary festival
A star-studded Literature Festival in the Cotswolds could give its famous Cheltenham counterpart a run for its money.
The inaugural Kempsford Literary Festival will take place in March, with organisers hoping to bring book-lovers flocking in.
HRH The Countess of Wessex will open the festival, which has already attracted top-flight authors such as Joanna Trollope, Gyles Brandreth and Lord Douglas Hurd.
Susan Hill, former GCHQ chief Dame Stella Rimington, Nicholas Coleridge and Michael Dobbs are also in line to speak at the showpiece occasion, as well as agreeing to sign copies of their books.
The event, which will run from Match 12 to 14, is the brainchild of Reverend Tim Hastie-Smith – the former headmaster of Dean Close School in Cheltenham – who became vicar of Kempsford last year.
The festival will take place at the local primary school and is being organised by former actress and ex-Bond girl Fiona Fullerton, who also lives in the village...
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