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OUR COUNTY’S LITERARY HERITAGE 015
Is it Rudyard Kipling – or his double?
A life-size statue of Rudyard Kipling has recently been unveiled in Burwash, East Sussex, where the author of the much-loved Jungle Book (and other works) lived for years. Local artist Victoria Atkinson sculpted the statue of Kipling sitting on a bench in the high street. “I feel very connected to this project, having lived in the area all my life and walked the fi elds around Bateman’s every day for the past 20 years,” says Victoria.
Chiddingstone Literary Festival: 4th-7th May
Book enthusiasts of all ages can revel in even more literary loveliness than usual as this May’s Chiddingstone Festival stretches over four days instead of three. Get set for talks and appearances by such luminaries as Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Joanne Harris, Dan Freedman, Maz Evans, Joseph Coelho, Scottish Poet Laureate Jackie Kay and many others. Children will love the Pericles Theatre Company’s The Little Mermaid and they can try modelling with Aardman Animations, creators of Wallace and Gromit. • Tickets cost from £6 (children) and £13.50 for adults. For more information, visit
chiddingstonecastle.org. uk/literaryfestival
BOOMING BOOK SALES
Who said print was dead and buried? While audio books are one of the biggest growing markets (up 87% on 2014), sales of print books held steady in 2018, rising by 3% over the previous year, according to Nielsen BookScan. As a nation we love a crime thriller – most fi ction
bestsellers are now in this genre – but one of the biggest rises came from adult non-fi ction, especially politics and
government titles, with food and pop science also popular. The good news is that our children still love books – sales
of children’s non-fi ction grew by 30% over 2017 while youth fi ction accounts for a whopping 30% of the bestseller lists, driven largely by comic author David Walliams! Encouragingly, too, despite the pressure on retail book chains, the number of independent bookshops continues to rise. With the county’s libraries under threat from funding shortfalls, that’s just as well...
MORE INFORMATION • Caroline Ward Vine: to read Breathing Water, visit
costa.co.uk/costa-book- awards/costa-short-story-award/ • Mark Oldfi eld: for details of Mark’s books, go to
http://headofzeus.com • Emma Toomey: to check out Freddie Windsor Goes to Football and others, visit
pegasuspublishers.com • Chiddingstone Literary Festival: visit
chiddingstonecastle.org.uk/ literaryfestival
• Rudyard Kipling statue project: visit
victoriaatkinson.co.uk/kiplingproject
© Tom Reynolds
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