Planning the next OLA Reading Festival

The OLA Reading Festival will be 23-27 September, with six speakers, enabling all members of the school to enjoy at least one session. Fantasy writer and former RAF pilot Mark Robson, playwright and novelist David Calcutt, Carnegie nominated local writer Julie Hearn and H.L.Dennis, author of the acclaimed puzzle-breaking series, Secret Breakers will be guests at OLA. An evening with Whitbread winning poet Bernard O'Donoghue will also be open to visitors.