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July 1, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: 1 July

Venue: Garfoth Community College, Lidgett Lane

City and Postcode: Garfoth, LS25 1LJ

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Garforth Community College

Price: Please contact event organiser for ticket information

Event contact information: Byron Godfrey, 07766 886 743

July 2, 2008

Author Name: Toby Litt

Event Name: Ipswich Arts Festival

Date/Time: July 2, 18.30

Venue: St Lawrence Centre, Dial Lane, Ipswich

City and Postcode: Suffolk IP1

Description: Author Talk

Price: £7, £5 concessions

Event contact information: info/booking 01473 433 100 or email: info.ipart@ipswich.gov.uk

July 2, 2008

Author Name: Simon Armitage

Event Name: The Armitage is in town! Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist

Date/Time: July 2, 18.00

Venue: Waterstone's Hull, Grand Buildings, Jameson Street, Hull

City and Postcode: East Yorkshire, HU1 3JX

Description: Poet, music lover, proud Yorkshireman, and GCSE syllabus favourite Simon Armitage will be in-store giving a talk on his latest book 'Gig'. Simon's poetry books will also be available, and he will host a Q&A session as well as signing his works. This event will take place in the Costa coffee shop.

Price: Tickets are £1 and redeemable against the title during the event

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Further details: 01482 580 234

July 2, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 2, 10.00

Venue: Waterstone's Leeds, 93-7 Albion St

City and Postcode: Leeds LS1 5AP

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstones in Leeds

Price: please contact event organiser for ticket information

Event contact information: Paul Burdin, 0113 244 4588

July 2, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 2, 11.00

Venue: Grove Bookshop, 10 The Grove

City and Postcode: Illkley LS29 9EG

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's in Leeds

Price: Free

Event contact information: Russ/Carole 01943 609335

July 2, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 2, 12.30

Venue: Wetherby Bookshop, 20a Bank St

City and Postcode: Wetherby LS22 6NQ

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Wetherby Bookshop

Price: Free

Event contact information: Penny Jackson, 01937 585855

July 2, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 2, 15.00

Venue: Waterstone's Harrogate, 15 James Street

City and Postcode: Harrogate

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's in Harrogate

Price: Free

Event contact information: David Gardner 01423 531953

July 2, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 2, 16.00

Venue: Waterstone's York, 28-9 Ousegate

City and Postcode: York, YO1 8RX

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's in York

Price: Free

Event contact information: Lee 07304 628740

July 2, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 2, 16.30

Venue: Borders, Unit 1, 1-5 Davygate

City and Postcode: York, YO1 8QR

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Borders in York

Price: Free

Event contact information: Lorraine 01904 653300

July 2, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 2, 19.00

Venue: Pocklington Arts Centre, Market Place, Pocklington

City and Postcode: York YO42 2AR

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Simply Books in Pocklington

Price: please contact event organiser for ticket information

Event contact information: Sara Waddington, Simply Books 01759 304444

July 2, 2008

Author Name: Gilda O'Neill

Event Name: Girls Night In (...boys allowed!)

Date/Time: 2 July, 18.00-19.30

Venue: The Newham Bookshop, 745-747 Barking Road

City and Postcode: London, E13 9ER

Description: Come along for an evening of free chocolate, free wine and the chance to talk to some authors

Price: This is a non-ticketed event

Event contact information: The Newham Bookshop 020 8552 9993

July 3, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 3, 11.00

Venue: Broadhursts Southport, 5-7 Market Street

City and Postcode: Southport PR8 1HD

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Broadhursts in Southport

Price: Free

Event contact information: Julie Bentham 01704 532064

July 3, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 3, 12.30

Venue: Waterstone's Ormskirk, 5-7 Church Street

City and Postcode: Ormskirk L39 3AE

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's in Ormskirk

Price: Free

Event contact information: Gemma 01695 580294

July 3, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 3, 16.00

Venue: Waterstone's, 50-70 Bank Hey St, City Centre

City and Postcode: Blackpool FY1 4RY

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's in Blackpool

Price: Free

Event contact information: Emma or Sarah, 01253 29613

July 4, 2008

Author Name: Helen Dunmore

Event Name: Ipswich Arts Festival 08

Date/Time: July 4, 18.30

Venue: Ipswich Institute

City and Postcode: Ipswich IP1 3AL

Description: Author Talk

Price: £7 (includes a glass of wine)

Event contact information: Tel: 01473 432869 or email: info.ipart@ipswich.gov.uk

July 4, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 4, 12.00

Venue: Pritchards, 13 Moor Lane, Crosby

City and Postcode: Merseyside L23 2SE

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Pritchards in Merseyside

Price: Free

Event contact information: Steve Pritchard 0151 931 1642

July 4, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 4, 18.30

Venue: Borders Stockport, Peel Centre, Great Stockport St

City and Postcode: Stockport SK1 2HH

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Borders in Stockport

Price: please contact event organiser for ticket information

Event contact information: Mike Barry 0161 476 3392 mbarry@bordersstores.com

July 4, 5 and 6, 2008

Author Name: Jane Johnson

Event Name: Sea, Salts and Sail Festival 2008

Date/Time: July 4, 5, 6

Venue: Mousehole

City and Postcode: Cornwall

Description: Jane Johnson, author of 'Crossed Bones', will be appearing at the Sea, Salts and Sail Festival.

Price: Non-ticketed event

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Any further information can be obtained from Mrs Sylvia Pezzack, 01736 731655 or email: info@seasalts.co.uk or website: www.seasalts.co.uk.

July 6, 2008

Author Name: Sathnam Sanghera

Event Name: Leytonstone Festival

Date/Time: 6 July, 18.30

Venue: Leytonstone Library, 6 Church Lane

City and Postcode: Leytonstone E11 1HG

Description: Book discussion with authors Sathnam Sanghera & Jacqueline Walker

Price: £3

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: advance tickets from Newham Bookshop on 0208 552 9993

July 7, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 7, 11.00

Venue: Waterstone's 78-80 St Peters St

City and Postcode: Derby

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstones in Derby

Price: Free

Event contact information: Ginny Wilds 01332 296997

July 7, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 7, 12.00

Venue: Borders Leicester, Grove Farm Triangle, Endleby

City and Postcode: Leicester LE19 1WT

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Borders in Leicester

Price: Free

Event contact information: Fiona Rubio 0116 289 4729 Frubio1@bordersstores.com

July 7, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 7, 17.00

Venue: Borders Norwich, St Stephens Road

City and Postcode: Norwich NR1 3SP

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Borders in Norwich

Price: Free

Event contact information: Lizz Page 01603 664538

July 7, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 7, 19.00

Venue: Jarrolds, 1-11 London St

City and Postcode: Norwich NR2 1JF

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Jarrolds in Norwich

Price: please contact event organiser for ticket information

Event contact information: Carole Slaughter 01603 660661

July 8, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 8, 11.30

Venue: Waterstone's, 36 Buttermarket, Bury St Edmunds

City and Postcode: Suffolk IP33 1DW

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's Bury St Edmunds

Price: Free

Event contact information: Phil 01284 750877

July 8, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 8, 13.30

Venue: Waterstone's, 12-13 High Street

City and Postcode: Colchester

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's Colchester

Price: Free

Event contact information: Clive 01206 561307

July 8, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 8, 18.30

Venue: Heffers, 20 Trinity Street

City and Postcode: Cambridge CB2 1TY

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Heffers in Cambridge

Price: Please contact event organiser for ticket information

Event contact information: Suzanne Jones 01223 568568

July 9, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 9, 11.00

Venue: Waterstone's Dorking, 54-60 South Street

City and Postcode: Dorking RH4 2HQ

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's Dorking

Price: Free

Event contact information: John Watt 01306 886884

July 9, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 9, 12.00

Venue: Waterstone's, 4 The Marlets

City and Postcode: Crawley

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's Crawley

Price: Free

Event contact information: Louise Bateman 01293 525352

July 9, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 9, 13.30

Venue: Waterstone's, Haywards Heath

City and Postcode: Haywards Heath

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's Haywards Heath

Price: Free

July 9, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 9, 15.00

Venue: Waterstone's, 32-40 Calverley Road

City and Postcode: Tunbridge Wells

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's Tunbridge Wells

Price: Free

Event contact information: Sue Dewing 01892 535446

July 9, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 9, 18.00

Venue: Borders Brighton, 2 Western Road, Hove

City and Postcode: Brighton BN3 1AE

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Borders, Brighton

Price: Please contact event organiser for ticket information

Event contact information: Marcus 01273 731122

July 10, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 10, 10.00

Venue: Methvens, 22-26 South St, Worthing

City and Postcode: West Sussex BN11 3AA

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Methvens, West Sussex

Price: Free

Event contact information: Jen 01903 206696

July 11, 2008

Author Name: Penelope Lively

Event Name: Way With Words Festival

Date/Time: 11 July, 16.00

Venue: Great Hall, Dartington, Totnes

City and Postcode: Devon, TQ9 6JG

Description: James and Ben Long talk to Penelope Lively: The Plot Against Pepys

Price: £8

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Phone: 01803 867373 or book online at: www.wayswithwords.co.uk

July 11, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 11, 15.30

Venue: Waterstone's, West Mall, Castle Lane West

City and Postcode: Bournemouth BH9 9UY

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's in Castle Lane West, Bournemouth

Price: Free

Event contact information: Katherine Jennings 01202 299449

July 11, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 11, 16.00

Venue: Paperview, 5 Christchurch Road, Ringwood

City and Postcode: Hants BH24 1NU

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Paperview in Ringwood, Hants

Price: Free

Event contact information: Trevor Johnson 01425 489364

July 11, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 11, 16.15

Venue: Waterstone's 14-16 The Arcade

City and Postcode: Bournemouth BH1 2AH

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Waterstone's in Arcade, Bournemouth

Price: Free

Event contact information: Katherine Jennings 01202 299449

July 11, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 11, 17.30

Venue: Waterstone's, Bournemouth

City and Postcode: Bournemouth BH2 6DT

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Bournemouth Waterstone's Dorset

Price: Free

Event contact information: Steve White 01202 589736

July 12, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 12, 09.30

Venue: Waterstone's, Christchurch

City and Postcode: Dorset BH23 1AY

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Christchurch Waterstone's Dorset

Price: Free

Event contact information: Lindsay Falkner 01202 589736

July 12, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 12, 10.30

Venue: Waterstone's, Poole

City and Postcode: Poole BH15 1ER

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Poole Waterstone's Dorset

Price: Free

Event contact information: Dee Steed Della Chapman 01202 670 000

July 12, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 12, 11.30

Venue: Waterstone's, Dorchester

City and Postcode: Dorset DT1 1DQ

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Dorchester Waterstone's Dorset

Price: Free

Event contact information: Phoebe Williams 01305 257123

July 12, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 12, 14.00

Venue: Waterstone's Roman Gate, 252 High Street

City and Postcode: Exeter EX4 3PZ

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Exeter Waterstone's Roman Gate

Price: Free

Event contact information: Terry Hurt 01392 423044

July 12, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 12, 15.15

Venue: Waterstone's 48-49 High Street

City and Postcode: Exeter EX4 3DJ

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Exeter Waterstone's

Price: Free

Event contact information: Jill Perry or Tim Donne 01392 218392

July 12, 2008

Author Name: Penelope Lively

Event Name: Ways With Words Festival

Date/Time: 12 July, 10.00

Venue: Great Hall, Dartington, Totnes

City and Postcode: Devon, TQ9 6JG

Description: Penelope Lively Reading, Writing And Letters Home After forty years in books, Penelope Lively considers the unexpected aspects of a writing life – learning, living and leaving home, with surprises along the way.

Price: £8

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Phone: 01803 867373 or book online at: www.wayswithwords.co.uk

July 13, 2008

Author Name: Gervase Phinn

Event Name: Gervase Phinn signing

Date/Time: July 13, 10.00

Venue: Waterstone's, 79 Courtnenay Street, Newton Abbot

City and Postcode: Devon TQ12 2QH

Description: Gervase Phinn is appearing at Newton Abbot Waterstone's

Price: Free

Event contact information: Libby Shaw 01626 365050

July 16, 2008

Author Name: Virginia Ironside

Event Name: Ways With Words Festival

Date/Time: 16 July, 17.00

Venue: Barn Theatre, Dartington,Totnes

City and Postcode: Devon, TQ9 6JG

Description: Virginia Ironside No! I Don’t Want To Join A Book Club: Journalist, Agony Aunt and novelist Virginia Ironside talks about growing old gracefully or disgracefully. (Why do the over-60s go paragliding or cycle across Mongolia?) This promises to be an insightful and hilarious hour.

Price: £8

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Phone: 01803 867373 or book online at: www.wayswithwords.co.uk

July 16, 2008

Author Name: Vesna Maric

Event Name: London Literature Festival 2008

Date/Time: 16 July, 19.00

Venue: Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall

City and Postcode: London SE1 8XX

Description: Booking Passage. In association with the Refugee Council London-based authors from around the world explore how encounters between new and host communities influence their views of one another, and of the world around them. The writers include Vesna Maric, an emerging and witty voice from Bosnia, and Kurdish poet Choman Hardi. They discuss what choices they make as writers to reflect their new homelands and the different meanings of being a migrant or exiled writer.

Price: £7

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Book online at www.southbankcentre.co.uk (£1.50 transaction fee). Tel: 0871 663 2586 (£2 transaction fee) or in person at the Royal Festival Hall 10am-8pm daily

July 16, 2008

Author Name: Mark E. Smith

Event Name: London Literature Festival 2008

Date/Time: 16 July, 19.45

Venue: Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

City and Postcode: London SE1 8XX

Description: Mark E. Smith joins his biographer Austin Collings to discuss his extraordinary life as front man of The Fall. His book Renegade is the first time he has opened up in a full biography.

Price: £9

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Book online at www.southbankcentre.co.uk (£1.50 transaction fee). Tel: 0871 663 2586 (£2 transaction fee) or in person at the Royal Festival Hall 10am-8pm daily

July 17, 2008

Author Name: Gilda O'Neill

Event Name: QAC Sight Village Exhibition 2008, Birmingham

Date/Time: 17 July, 14.30

Venue: The Clarendon Suites 2 Stirling Road Edgbaston

City and Postcode: Birmingham B16 9SB

Description: Author Talk

Price: Free

Event URL: » Click here for more information

July 17, 2008

Author Name: Simon Armitage

Event Name: London Literature Festival 2008: Simon Armitage and Lavinia Greenlaw

Date/Time: 17 July, 19.45

Venue: Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

City and Postcode: London SE1 8XX

Description: Poets Simon Armitage and Lavinia Greenlaw reveal their rock star fantasies and musical inspirations through discussion of their latest books.

Price: £9

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Book online at www.southbankcentre.co.uk (£1.50 transaction fee). Tel: 0871 663 2586 (£2 transaction fee) or in person at the Royal Festival Hall 10am-8pm daily

July 18, 2008

Author Name: Valerie Grove

Event Name: Way With Words Festival

Date/Time: 18 July, 10.45

Venue: Great Hall, Dartington,Totnes

City and Postcode: Devon, TQ9 6JG

Description: Valerie Grove A Voyage Round John Mortimer: Novelist, playwright and barrister, John Mortimer has led a rich personal and professional life. Valerie Grove, the biographer of Dodie Smith and Laurie Lee, and a journalist at The Times and The Oldie, has had full access to John Mortimer, his circle of friends and colleagues and their diaries and letters.

Price: £8

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Phone: 01803 867373 or book online at: www.wayswithwords.co.uk

July 18, 2008

Author Name: Valerie Grove and Claire Tomalin

Event Name: Way With Words Festival

Date/Time: 18 July, 15.30

Venue: Great Hall, Dartington,Totnes

City and Postcode: Devon, TQ9 6JG

Description: Patrick French, Valerie Grove, Peter Stanford, Claire Tomalin. Wanted Dead Or Alive: Is it easier to tell the biography of someone who is no longer around or someone who is large as life still? Is the truth compromised by having the subject peering over your shoulder? These acclaimed biographers discuss the restrictions they encounter and what they do about them.

Price: £8

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Phone: 01803 867373 or book online at www.wayswithwords.co.uk

July 19, 2008

Author Name: Claire Tomalin

Event Name: Ways With Words

Date/Time: 19 July, 14.00

Venue: Great Hall, Dartington, Totnes

City and Postcode: Devon, TQ9 6JG

Description: Claire Tomalin The Time-Torn Man: A Life Of Thomas Hardy. In her biography of Thomas Hardy, Claire Tomalin brings the man as well as the writer to life, describing how he was regular in his habits, how he sprinkled brown sugar on his breakfast bacon and refused to let the maids into his room in case they touched his papers. She tells of his mournful wistfulness for the past and describes his working life.

Price: £8

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Phone: 01803 867373 or book online at: www.wayswithwords.co.uk

July 19, 2008

Author Name: Bernadine Evaristo

Event Name: London Literature Festival 2008: Mama Africa

Date/Time: 19 July, 19.00

Venue: Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall

City and Postcode: London SE1 8XX

Description: Join us for the launch event of Blonde Roots, Bernardine Evaristo’s brilliantly inventive new book. The novel is an ingenious reversal of the slave trade, in which Africans are the masters and Europeans held captive.

Price: £7

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Book online at www.southbankcentre.co.uk (£1.50 transaction fee). Tel: 0871 663 2586 (£2 transaction fee) or in person at the Royal Festival Hall 10am-8pm daily

July 22, 2008

Author Name: Penelope Lively

Event Name: Buxton Festival

Date/Time: July 22, 10.45

Venue: Buxton Opera House, Water Street, Buxton

City and Postcode: Derbyshire, SK17 6XN

Description: The House in Fiction: Penelope Lively has written novels, short stories, books for children and two experimental memoirs. Her novel Moon Tiger won the Booker Prize and her most recent novel Consequences has received excellent national reviews. In this engaging talk she considers how houses are represented in fiction.

Price: £9

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Festival Box Office, Buxton Festival, 3 The Square, Buxton SK17 6AZ / Box Office Phone: 0845 127 2190 Email: boxoffice@buxtonopera.co.uk

July 26, 2008

Author Name: Valerie Grove

Event Name: Buxton Festival

Date/Time: July 26, 10.45

Venue: Buxton Opera House, Water Street, Buxton

City and Postcode: Derbyshire, SK17 6XN

Description: A Voyage Round John Mortimer: Valerie Grove, the renowned journalist, discusses her enthralling biography of John Mortimer. For the first time a biographer has had full access to Mortimer, his circle of friends and colleagues, and their diaries and letters. The result is a riveting account of the life of one of the great national figures of our time.

Price: £9

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Festival Box Office, Buxton Festival, 3 The Square, Buxton SK17 6AZ / Box Office Phone: 0845 127 2190 Email: boxoffice@buxtonopera.co.uk

August 9, 2008

Author Name: Sathnam Sanghera and Imran Ahmad

Event Name: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Date/Time: August 9, 14.30

Venue: Peppers Theatre, Charlotte Square

City and Postcode: Edinburgh EH2 4HQ

Description: Author Talk

Price: Adult events range from £5.00 - £10.00 (£3.00 - £8.00 concessions)

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Email: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk / Telephone: 0845 373 5888

August 12, 2008

Author Name: Robin Yassin-Kassab

Event Name: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Date/Time: August 12, 19.30

Venue: Writers' Retreat, Charlotte Square

City and Postcode: Edinburgh EH2 4HQ

Description: Author talk with Mohammed Hanif

Price: Adult events range from £5.00 - £10.00 (£3.00 - £8.00 concessions)

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Email: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk / Telephone: 0845 373 5888

August 14, 2008

Author Name: G. W. Dahlquist

Event Name: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Date/Time: August 14, 16.30

Venue: Writers' Retreat, Charlotte Square

City and Postcode: Edinburgh EH2 4HQ

Description: Author Talk

Price: Adult events range from £5.00 - £10.00 (£3.00 - £8.00 concessions)

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Email: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk / Telephone: 0845 373 5888

August 16, 2008

Author Name: Helen Dunmore & Katie Hickman

Event Name: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Date/Time: August 16, 14.30

Venue: Peppers Theatre, Charlotte Square

City and Postcode: Edinburgh EH2 4HQ

Description: Author Talk

Price: Adult events range from £5.00 - £10.00 (£3.00 - £8.00 concessions)

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Email: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk / Telephone: 0845 373 5888

August 16, 2008

Author Name: Helen Dunmore & Katie Hickman

Event Name: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Date/Time: August 16, 14.00

Venue: Writers' Retreat, Charlotte Square

City and Postcode: Edinburgh EH2 4HQ

Description: Writing Poetry with Kevin MacNeil

Price: Adult events range from £5.00 - £10.00 (£3.00 - £8.00 concessions)

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Email: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk / Telephone: 0845 373 5888

August 19, 2008

Author Name: Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Event Name: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Date/Time: August 19, 12.30

Venue: Peppers Theatre, Charlotte Square

City and Postcode: Edinburgh EH2 4HQ

Description: Author Talk

Price: Adult events range from £5.00 - £10.00 (£3.00 - £8.00 concessions)

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Email: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk / Telephone: 0845 373 5888

August 23, 2008

Author Name: Simon Armitage

Event Name: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Date/Time: 23 August, 17.00

Venue: Scottish Power Studio Theatre, Charlotte Square

City and Postcode: Edinburgh EH2 4HQ

Description: Author Talk

Price: Adult events range from £5.00 - £10.00 (£3.00 - £8.00 concessions)

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Email: boxoffice@edbookfest.co.uk / Telephone: 0845 373 5888

August 25, 2008

Author Name: Jane Johnson

Event Name: Newlyn Fish Festival

Date/Time: 25 August, 09.00-17.00

Venue: Newlyn Harbour, Newlyn

City and Postcode: Cornwall

Description: Jane Johnson will be appearing at this year's Newlyn Fish Festival to promote Crossed Bones

Price: £4 (free entrance for children)

Event URL: » Click here for more information

Event contact information: Sarah Henshall - Festival Secretary Telephone: 01736 364 324

 

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