Booktown Festival attracts 17,000 to Clunes

8 May 2012 Books+Publishing

Approximately 17,000 people visited Clunes in central Victoria on the weekend for the annual Clunes Booktown Festival, up from approximately 14,000 in 2011. Linda Newitt, one of the event’s organisers, told Bookseller+Publisher that approximately two-thirds of festival goers were newcomers to the festival, ‘which is great for future festivals’. Newitt...