I will be presenting an illustrated talk about my latest book, The Frozen River, during Oxford Literary Festival, on Saturday 28th March at 6pm. I do hope you can join me then.
DUE TO COVID-19 Shute Festival has postponed its events located at Shute for May to July but hopes to offer them live via zoom. Full details of how to join them via zoom will be available nearer the time. I…
Book launch, talk and signings at 1.30. This is before the Main cider tasting event, 3-6pm, with 20 producers from far and wide + 60 ciders and perries. Cider Salon is where you can meet and talk to the cider producers themselves and learn…
James Crowden in conversation with Martin Hesp for Shute Festival. Online via Crowdcast Cider-making has been at the heart of country life for hundreds of years. But the fascinating story of how this drink came into existence and why it…
At the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury
Time to be confirmed.
At Bridport Literary Festival
At Wells Museum U3A. Time to be confirmed
Author, poet and leading cider writer James Crowden uncovers the rich history behind the origins and making of cider and offers some tastings. He is joined by Tom Oliver of Oliver’s Cider & Perry. Crowden says that while cidermaking has…
Author and poet James Crowden tells how he left the Army in 1976 to live alongside the Zangskari people in a remote Himalayan community where silence and solitude were the hallmarks of existence. Crowden immersed himself in a way of…
Writer and poet James Crowden will be sharing stories from his latest book ‘Cider Country’, taking you on a fascinating journey discovering the surprising origins of this much loved drink. Spanning centuries and continents, Cider Country tells the story of…