Day 4 Events – Sunday 27th September 2026

Morning and lunchtime.

9:00 – Guided tour of Berkhamsted School and archives.

Led by archivist Lesley Koulouris the tour takes in the famous green baize door, the Exhibition Room, Old Hall and the School chapel. Meet outside Old Hall, Berkhamsted School, Castle Street, promptly at 9 am. No booking required, a free event for festival-goers ahead of the main morning session.

Morning:

Deans Hall, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street)

£26

10:00 – Cadence Rustam: Love, loss and betrayal in Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair.

Cadence Rustam, at 22 the youngest ever speaker at the Festival, will reflect on the key themes linking the two early postwar novels which cemented Greene’s status as a writer of international repute.

(11:00-11:30 break for tea and coffee)

11:30 – David Belbin: A Greeneland centenary – Graham Greene in Nottingham 1925-1926.

Focusing on Greene’s four months living and working in Nottingham in 1925-1926, writer David Belbin shows how this short and often neglected period not only led to Greene becoming a Catholic but set his future trajectory as a novelist

Lunchtime:

13:00 – Farewell Lunch.

A two-course cold buffet, wine and coffee; vegan/vegetarian options available. Please book online by Thursday 10 September.