We were so disappointed when Brian W Lavery had to pull out of the 2024 festival, but we can now look forward to his appearance this year.
Brian was born in Glasgow’s East End, the fourth of six sons, to a sheet metal worker and a shop assistant. Brian has been a factory worker, car valet, market trader, waiter, university dropout, VAT officer and latterly a journalist, university tutor and writer.
He spent more than thirty years in journalism before undertaking a first-class joint honours degree and a doctorate in creative writing at Hull. He held top-level posts on several national and international newspapers, and was news editor of two regional papers and he edited three weekly papers.
His books include The Headscarf Revolutionaries (2015) and The Luckiest Thirteen (2017) both about the hardships and tragedy that surrounded the Hull Arctic fishing Fleet in the late 1960s and the bravery of the women who decided enough was enough.
