Graham Topman Festival organiser

VISITORS TO THE SCRIVENS-BY-ON-the-Wold Festival of Literature and the Arts often stop to remark upon the picturesque figure who stands in the foyer of the church hall welcoming guests. Middle-aged to elderly, six feet three inches tall, occasionally dressed in a suit of plus-fours, more often — the event takes place in July — in a slimline kaftan, this apparition is a source of endless interest to the festival’s attendees and once prompted pted a Booker Prize-winning novelist to suggest to his wife, “They must have let the village idiot out early this year.” In fact, the figure in the doorway is none other than Graham Topman, the festival’s bonhomous chair. Now entering its fifteenth year and hailed by the Sunday Times as “one of the best small books festivals…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2024

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