Island Life

The Guernsey Literary Festival has unveiled the first wave of speakers for its 2026 programme, promising another richly varied line-up of authors, thinkers and performers when it returns next spring.

His musical composition has become the ‘aesthetic backbone’ of one of the UK’s most revered theatre directors and has taken him to London and New York, but as Simon De La Rue reports, Angus MacRae still found time to pop back to Guernsey to hear his own new version of Sarnia Cherie for the first time.