Save the Date!

Somerset CBG are delighted to announce that we will be hosting You Couldn’t Make it Up! a one-day non-fiction conference on Saturday 11th November as part of the celebrations for National Non-Fiction November 2023.

Sidcot School have kindly agreed to let us use their Arts’ Centre for this event, giving us a lovely location for the day. Sidcot is easy to find and there is plenty of parking on site for those coming by car.

Doors will open at 9am, allowing an hour before our first speaker for delegates to browse the bookshop which will be provided by Heather from Reading Rocks and we are very excited to have the opportunity to work with her! She will be offering some amazing deals on selected books, highlighted in the publishers’ presentations. There will also be a Publishers’ Exhibition for delegates to explore, offering a wonderful opportunity to find out about their books and discuss them. Tea and coffee will be available at this time as well and both the Exhibition and the bookshop will be available all day!

We have an incredible line up of speakers. Isabel Thomas is the author of many non-fiction titles including ‘Moth’, ‘The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions’ and ‘Thirty Trillion Cells’. Andy Seed’s books are full of humour and include the ‘Interview with a…’ series and ‘The Clue is in the Poo’. Famous for her time as a presenter on ‘The Really Wild Show’, Nicola Davies is now equally well-known for her writing, both fiction and non-fiction. Her books include ‘Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes’, ‘Lots’ and ‘One World’. There will also be presentations from publishers, highlighting some of their non-fiction titles.

Delegates will also have the chance to win one of two free places at a CLPE Non-Fiction webinar. It will be a wonderful opportunity to meet like-minded lovers of information books and tickets are only £10 for FCBG members and £20 for non-members. Lunch on the day is NOT included; however, there is plenty of space for everyone to bring their own sandwiches and there is a Co-op and a Spar in the nearby village of Winscombe, a fifteen minute walk from the school. The day will end at about 4pm.

Members of the Federation of Children’s Book Groups can find out how to book their tickets by emailing somersetcbg@gmail.com . Non-members can book tickets via Eventbrite.

We look forward to seeing you all there!