Thanks for a wonderful Festival! See you again in 2020.

Here’s a great big old fashioned shout out to books.

Here’s to authors. 

Here’s to illustrators. Here’s to editors. Here’s to publishers and publicists. Here’s to bookshops and booksellers. Here’s to libraries and librarians.

Here’s to our sponsors. Here’s to the venues. Here’s to all our volunteers.

Here’s to all the readers out there of every age and every background and every taste.

Thank you. We really couldn’t do it without you!