Port Eliot Lit Festival
St Germans, Cornwall
Books have become the new rock’n’roll, goes the thinking. But in reality books are a solitary pleasure while rock’n’roll is messy, loud and communal. That’s why Glastonbury is a riot of mud and mayhem and the Hay festival is all straw hats and civility. However, the third Port Eliot Lit [...]

The Financial Times, 2 April 2004
In the cosy bar of the Craigellachie Hotel in Scotland’s Speyside, the barman is having trouble pouring a dram of whisky. The bar is lined with 500 different bottles: he can’t remember where he left the one he wants. Welcome to Whisky Country.
The hotel is slightly fusty - cigar smoke, [...]