Torsten Woywod liest aus seinem Roman "Mathilde und Marie"

In the organizer's words:

Redu, the small book village in the Belgian Ardennes, becomes the stage for an extraordinary story - and for Mathilde and Marie, two heroines you immediately take to your heart.

We feel very lucky that we are one of the 60 bookshops that Torsten Woywod visits on his 120-day reading tour. What a tribute to the book trade.

We have known Torsten for many years: as a colleague, as an ambassador for the independent book industry and as one of the warmest people around. Few people have dared to do so much for books: with his travel literature projects In 60 bookshops across Europe (2016) and In 80 bookshops around the world (2017), he made his love of bookshops visible. He later founded his own publishing house, with which he brought Leonhard and Paul into German. And now, with Mathilde and Marie, he presents his first own novel - warm-hearted, decelerating, full of joie de vivre.

We will use the proceeds from this event to enable a debut reading as part of our LIT.festival 2026 this summer.