05 FEBRUARY 2010
Round-up: UK Literary festivals in February 2010
Disappointingly, several of the usual literary festivals held in February have been cancelled for 2010, including Belfast and Caomhnu. Fortunately London and Bath have managed to surpass their usual excellence and provide book lovers with a fascinating selection of guest authors and writers.
Space for Thought Literary Festival: London School of Economics (LSE) 11 -13 February 2010 - Visiting authors: Dan Cruikshank ( The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital) ; Lionel Shriver ( The Post Birthday World); Ben Okri, Mark Lawson, Giles Foden, Susie Orbach, Colin Thubron and A S Byatt ( The Children's Book and Possession: A Romance)
Bath Literary Festival Bath LitFest 27th February – 7th March - Visiting authors: Michael Frayne chronicles his journalistic career in Travels with a Typewriter
Marjorie Wallace, author of ' The Silent Twins' and 'On Giants Shoulders' has been a long time campaigner and advocate for the marginalised, particularly people with mental illness, talks about the difficulties of fighting injustice in society.
The actor Bill Paterson, who has chronicled his memories from childhood in 1950's Glasgow in his comical and poignant book 'Tales from the Back Green', is interviewed by James Runcie.
Cookery writer Tamasin Day-Lewis discusses her new cookery book 'Supper for a Song' which is the food lover's response to the needs of families to produce healthier food at a lower cost to the people's finances, in the post credit crunch era. Today's Prices for this book in Hardcover today range from the RRP £20.00 to £11.83, so be sure to click on the link to check out the prices before purchasing this fantastic book, and make sure that not only do you save money by following the recipe's, but also capitalise on the price of the book.
Jonathan Safran-Foer, whose excellent novel 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' traces a young boys fascinating historical journey following the discovery of a key belonging to his late father who had died on September 11th, makes a rare appearance at the Bath Festival. Here he will discuss his latest venture 'Eating Animals', a book documenting the price of increased meat consumption on the environment.
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