BLF: Boater with Jo Bell

BLF: Boater with Jo Bell
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025
Date and time
12 Oct 2025 1.30pm - 2.30pm
Location

Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

£10
£8 concessions

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Jo Bell

Birmingham Literature Festival: Boater with Jo Bell

As the city famous for having ‘more canals than Venice’, it is our pleasure to welcome former UK Canal Laureate Jo Bell to the festival. Her memoir, Boater, details the twenty years Jo has spent living on England’s waterways, offering readers a glimpse into a way of living and working that feels very different to life on land.

It follows Jo’s journey as she takes a year long odyssey towards the Bristol Channel amid a turbulent relationship, and welcomes readers onboard a remarkable journey through her past, the history of England’s canals and the extraordinary communities they support.

Chaired by Jonathan Davidson

Running time approx. one hour

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