Fiction Festival 2009 archive

(the one with the wrong year

on the programme)

Friday 13th March

7.30pm

The Detective Novel

Booker shortlisted novelist

Jill Paton Walsh

and

Sophie Hannah

Saturday 14th March

11.00am

Discussion

"Does literature civilize, educate or neither?"

Chaired by D J Taylor

Saturday 14th March

3.00pm

The Regional Novel

Rachel Hore, Mark Illis

and

Tessa West

 

Saturday 14th March

8.00pm 

Booker Prize Winner

Penelope Lively

will read from her work and autobiographical aspects "Reading, writing and letters home"

Hostage In Peking

Anthony Grey

In conversation with travel writer and novelist

Christopher West

Sunday 15th March

11.00am

The Historical Novel

Beryl Bainbridge

D J Taylor

and

Christopher Bigsby

Sunday 15th March

3.00pm

Desert Island Novels

In which each of the writers will choose six novels and 

one gramophone record to take to a desert island

 Chaired by Christopher Bigsby