FORMER Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, was the curtain raiser of the 11th annual Hexham Book Festival on Friday at the town's Queen's Hall.
A packed auditorium listened attentively to his argument for a wholesale economic restructure before grilling him mercilessly on everything from the reasons for the financial crash of 2008 to whether capitalism itself was dead.
The following evening Captain Corelli's Mandolin author, Louis de Bernieres, effectively poured a bucket of cold water over the unalloyed romantic and on Sunday Queen's Counsel Thomas Grant rejuvenated the dusty annals of advocacy with a rollicking round of anecdotes.
Read all the reviews in this Friday's Hexham Courant.
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