A fresh chapter is under way for Hexham Book Festival which has returned with a packed 10-day programme and among the topics up for discussion this weekend will be the upcoming Coronation.
Big name authors will be giving talks throughout the festival's run in the Northumberland market town, including royal biographer Robert Hardman who, on Sunday, will be speaking about his book about the late Queen Elizabeth and also her legacy, the crowning of King Charles and what the new monarch may end up doing differently.
With celebration plans for the May 6 coronation gathering pace, the author's talk about Queen of our Times, due to take place - appropriately enough - at the town's Queen Hall theatre, is set to prove an especially popular event in the busy programme which next weekend will also include a special children's festival, Storyland, which will take over Hexham.
