VISITOR INFORMATION FOR 2024

You are welcome to come and go as you wish. Come for an hour or stay the whole day and immerse yourself in the incredible stories of how God is still transforming lives today. Chat to all of the authors and be inspired by their testimonies. Be sure to enter our treasure hunt.

It's FREE TO ENTER! Pick up a form at the festival. Chat to each of the 14 authors and find out who matches the following facts.

1. ​I am Dutch, and some of the words I use in my novels I have never heard, so I have no idea how to pronounce them.  
   
2. I'm enjoying being a chameleon writer granny to 5.
   
3. My name means 'King Yellow Dog.' 
   
4. I’m a triathlete as well as an author.
   
5. I taught in a 'Harambee' school in Kenya, aged eighteen, living with a fellow volunteer in a tin-roofed hut.
   
6. I once won a holiday to America in a competition about postcodes. 
   
7. I went to the same secondary school and university as J.R.R. Tolkien. 
   
8. I am a 3rd Dan black belt in Japanese Ju-Jitsu and I like to juggle.
   
9. My garage contains over 100 jars of jam, jelly and chutney which I have made over the past few years. 
   
10. Being an ex-sniper I can hide anywhere.
    
11. My journalism career took me all over the world and, strangely, particularly to the seaside.
    
12. I am the joint international coordinator for the International Christian Dance Fellowship.
    
13. I sailed in a Whitbread Ocean Sailing Race (30,000 miles) around the World in 1977/78 as a crew member.
    
14. Holidayed in Alaska as a teenager, where we stayed in a log cabin by a lake, where there were dried bear droppings and a toilet with no door and a bell to scare away the animals!