BIG READ: Best fest yet will champion city's new 'golden age'

With literary flair woven into its history, authors and readers in this city would be the first people to tell you that escapism can begin at home.  Merely namedrop the likes of Charles Dickens or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and you will instill pride in the hearts of those who are truly Portsmouth born-and-bred.  But nearly 88 years on from the death date of the latter, our    writers will unite with a bumper reminder      electric with creativity  Â