Middleham Festival this weekend – with a special addition…
I’m just prepping for this weekend’s Middleham Celebrates Richard III Festival in Wensleydale, Yorkshire – Sat 1st & Sun 2nd July, 10 till 4
And not only do I have my own books and those of other Ricardian authors for sale, but this year I have some very special additions
Marion Moffatt of Made Marion Art has created three beautiful watercolours especially for us Ricardians, and I’ll have prints of all three (plus two originals) for sale on my stall
Why only two originals? I hear you ask
Well, that’s because the third will be the special prize in a raffle being held in the Castle throughout the weekend
For more details, head over to Made Marion’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mademarionart/
Marion can also be found on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MadeMarionArt
Make sure you bring plenty of pennies (or groats) along with you when you visit Middleham this weekend! (Those magic money cards also widely accepted – huge stone walls and weather conditions permitting….)
Other attractions are of course Amicorum living history in the castle itself, a 2pm talk on Saturday in the Key Centre by Richard III Society member Graham Mitchell on King Richard’s time in the north of England, and other authors in and around the castle, including Toni Mount, Joanne Larner, Alice Mitchell and Bridget Beauchamp.
Hope to see you there 
Alex Marchant is author of two books telling the story of the real King Richard III for children aged 10+, The Order of the White Boar and The King’s Man, and a third in the sequence, King in Waiting, which continues the adventures of the young members of the Order in the following years. A fourth book, Sons of York, was published in June 2022 and offers a ‘plausible theory’ for the fate of the ‘Princes in the Tower’.
Alex is also editor of Grant Me the Carving of My Name and Right Trusty and Well Beloved…, two anthologies of short fiction inspired by King Richard, sold in support of Scoliosis Association UK (SAUK).
Alex has also published a standalone timeslip novel for readers aged 10+, Time out of Time, relating the adventures of Allie Turner through a doorway into history found under layers of old wallpaper at ancient Priory Farm.
Alex’s books can be found on Amazon at:
My Twitter handle and Matthew Wansford’s
Instagram: AlexMarchantAuthor
GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17175168.Alex_Marchant
