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Wooler Bookfair

George Dalziel

Saturday 27th March 10am - 4pm, Cheviot Centre, Wooler

Wooler is re-establishing its literary connections with a Book Fair on March 27 that will include exhibitors from Yorkshire and Dorset as well Northumberland.

The free event will include poetry readings, children’s story telling and a literary archive display as well as a wide range of antiquarian, second hand books, maps and prints for sale.

“Wooler has a number of connections with the literary world, “ says David Irving of Wooler-based Pinwell Books who is organising the event in partnership with Glendale Gateway Trust, Wooler U3A and Northumberland County Council Library Service.

Walter Scott

”Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe and Virginia and Leonard Woolf all stayed in Wooler, but perhaps the town’s strongest claim to literary fame is as the birthplace of the Dalziel brothers.

“George and Edward Dalziel founded the Camden Press in London. They’d trained as wood-engravers and were the most successful wood-engravers of the Victorian age. They produced the illustrations for Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Lear’s Book of Nonsense and Walter Scott’s Rob Roy among many others.”

The book fair will cover a wide range of subjects including local history, medieval and Anglo Saxon history, military history, modern first editions, children’s books, the arts, gardening, cookery and cricket as well as general literature.

The fair is being held at the Cheviot Centre, Padgepool Place on Saturday March 27 from 10-4pm.

Refreshments will be available and profits from the refreshments will go to the Multiple Sclerosis Research and Relief Fund.