Bestselling author Simon Winchester has been added to the burgeoning line-up for this year’s Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, taking place in Lismore later this month.

A world-renowned travel writer, who proposed to his wife while visiting Lismore in 2010, will return this month to speak at an event celebrating the Immrama travel writing festival.

A journalist has described falling to his knees as a soldier deliberately fired a shot at him on Bloody Sunday.