Portsmouth Bookfest 2021: 'It's lovely when reading becomes a community thing'
Colin Telford, co-owner of the Hayling Island Bookshop says: ‘Reading has never been more important than now for people's mental health. ‘It's a very relaxing activity and it does make people feel better – they can explore different worlds, different places, different characters – escape from the awful situation we're in. Novelist and teacher William Sutton will be running two novel-writing courses and interviewing crime author Mark Billingham in this year's Bookfest. ‘Therefore bookshops and book festivals are as important as ever, if not more so. ‘It's important that the festiv...
Source: portsmouth.co.uk