Philip Pullman and Hilary Mantel head up Cambridge Literary Festival

06 April 2010

An impressive line up of authors is scheduled to appear on 9/10/11 April at 'Wordfest', the Cambridge Spring literature festival. Phillip Pullman will be talking about his new book 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ' and Hilary Mantel will discuss her booker prize winning 'Wolf Hall'. In addition, two amazing Journalists, John Simpson and Martin Bell will discuss their books 'unreliable sources' and ' A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save our Democracy'.

Tickets for each event are available through the Cambridge Wordfest website. Other authors at the event this weekend include:

Jon McGregor – 'If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things' and 'Even the Dogs'.
Lionel Shriver – 'So Much For That'
Rebecca Stott – 'The Coral Thief'
Franny Armstrong – 'The Age of Stupid'
Will Hutton – 'Them and Us'
Jane Fearnley-Whittingtall – 'The Ministry of Food: Thrifty Wartime Ways to Feed Your Family'
William Fiennes – 'The Music Room'
Hanif Kureishi – 'Collected Stories','My Beautiful Launderette' and 'The Buddha of Suburbia'
Madeleine Bunting – 'The Plot'
A L Kennedy and James Kelman – 'What Becomes',  and 'If it is Your Life'

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