Trust & Festival News

The 2018 Graham Greene Festival was a great success. Attendance was up from last year and the Birthplace Trust welcomed a number of new faces. For the first time, the Trustees produced a questionnaire and a large number of people completed it. However, the Trust is aware that some people may have missed doing so […]

We thank the Trust’s Chairman Giles Clark for these photographs of the 2018 Graham Greene International Festival. And thanks to all those who attended who made the event both enjoyable and memorable.        

It is an undeniable truth of everyday life that our interests and leisure time generally cost money. Sometimes it feels as though we are spending a lot, especially if we are going to the theatre, to a gig or to a major sporting  occasion. Attending an event such as The Graham Greene International Festival is […]

An illustrated festival brochure containing the programme of events and other information is now available for downloading from the Festival 2018 page. Please go to https://grahamgreenebt.org/festival/. You may find within further details on the festival sessions, each of the speakers and some of the highlights that will be in offer, such as displays and bookstalls. […]

A Message from our Festival Director: Dear All, I hope you are well and looking forward to our annual Greene gathering. I have the pleasure of announcing that Helen Boden will again be displaying the work of her print-making group. Helen’s group has produced a series of amazing, vibrant images, some of which we have […]

The 2018 Festival sees a welcome return of two priests who have presented talks at previous festivals. On Saturday afternoon, The Reverend Mark Bosco of Georgetown University will give what sounds like a topical paper entitled, Coloring Catholicism  Greene in the Age of Pope Francis. On Friday morning, Monsignor Roderick Strange will present the inaugural […]

Berkhamsted (or Berko as it is affectionately known) features prominently in the pages of the forthcoming edition of A Sort of Newsletter, the quarterly publication of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust. For those who do not know, and there may be some, A Sort of Newsletter is received in February, May, August and November by […]

The noted mid-20th Century English poet Elizabeth Jennings died in 2001. Dana Greene (no relation to Graham) has written a biography and her book will be released in the UK by Oxford University Press on September 20, 2018.  Vivien Greene features prominently in the life of Elizabeth Jennings: spending Christmas holidays together, sharing a passion […]

Recently, the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust has appointed several new Trustees who have taken responsibility for various parts of the Trust’s affairs. Lucy Hill is overseeing the Trust’s compliance with the new Data Protection legislation. Jonathan Steffen is now the Press Officer. He will be seeking to promote the Trust’s public profile and to increase […]