Contributors to next month’s Kendal Mountain Literature Festival (November 18-21) in Cumbria include Anita Sethi, author of I Belong Here, Nick Hunt, (Outlandish), Tharik Hussain (Minarets in the Mountains), Monisha Rajesh (Epic Train Journeys) and Fred Pearce (A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World). For the full programme, see the festival website. The Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature (for which short-listed books include Signs of Life by Stephen Fabes) will be presented in an online event as part of the festival on November 19.