This, the 10th anniversary of the Knutsford Literature Festival, has been particularly successful. We, the committee members, would like to thank all those who helped to make the festival such a success:
our very supportive audiences, particularly the "Friends", whose enthusiasm meant that many events were sold out almost immediately;
the helpful staff at our venues;
the sponsors, Waterstones, Barrington Sports and Leicester Warren Hall, whose contributions do much to assist us in balancing the books!
Knutsford Guardian for some very useful publicity.
Thank you to all.
KNUTSFORD LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2009
13 Events - taking place in and around the historic and beautiful town of Knutsford
between
06 - 23 OCTOBER 2009
Tuesday 06 Sorry - this event is now sold out.
Anne Chisholm
Chairman of the Royal Society of Literature, writing about the liberated woman, born in 1900, to whom she was a close friend during the last years of her life
Frances Partridge: The Biography
2pm Catholic Church Hall - £4
Thursday 08 Sorry - this event is now sold out.
Max Hastings
Former editor-in-Chief of the Daily Telegraph, journalist and historian has written about the most telling years of Sir Winston Churchill's long and illustrious career
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45
7.30pm Methodist Church - £8
Friday 09 Sorry - this event is now sold out.
Rohan McCullough
Actor, Rohan McCullough, presents her hour- long one woman show, which won The Scotsman Drama Award
Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth
7.30pm - Civic Centre - £8
Saturday 10 Sorry - this event is now sold out.
Joan Bakewell - biography/review -
Author, broadcaster, doughty champion of the elderly, television presenter has now broken out of the mould yet again to produce her first - and very well reviewed - novel.
All the Nice Girls
2.30pm Methodist Church - £5
Sunday 11
Sophie Hannah
Prize-winning poet and crime novelist
The Other Half Lives
2.30pm Leicester Warren Hall - £4
Tuesday 13 Sorry - this event is now sold out.
Clarissa Dickson Wright - biography
Biography from this irrepressible raconteur and cook
Rifling Through My Drawers
7.30pm Methodist Church - £5
Wednesday 14 Sorry - this event is now sold out.
A Literary Lunch with Sandra Howard
Fashion model, freelance journalist and novellist - her latest romance is set against a backdrop of terrorism
From Fashion to Fiction
12 noon for 12.30pm - Mere Golf and Country Club - £26 - includes lunch
Friday 16
Diana Quick
A family memoir from this actress, journalist, author
A Tug on the Thread – From The British Raj to The British Stage
7.30pm Methodist Church - £5
Saturday 17
Selina Hastings
writer and journalist, the author of four literary biographies, judge of the Booker, Whitbread and numerous other prizes
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
2.30pm - Methodist Church - £4
Monday 19 Sorry - this event is now sold out.
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Chief cricket correspondent for The Times, a regular on Test Match Special and a former Benedictine Sporting After Dinner Speaker of the Year
The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time
7.30pm Leicester Warren Hall - £4
Tuesday 20
Mark Illis - Tender :-: Stephen May – Tag
Two authors to watch.
Mark Illis writes for Emmerdale, Peak Practice, Eastenders and The Bill.
Playwright Stephen May is Director of the Ted Hughes Arvon centre at Lumb Bank
7.30pm - Catholic Church Hall - £4
Thursday 22 Sorry - this event is now sold out.
Claire Harman
Writer, critic and author of four major literary biographies
Jane’s Fame
2pm - Catholic Church Hall - £4
Friday 23 For those of you relying on SatNav to find Toft Cricket club, please be aware that there is a printing error on the programme. The Cricket Club is on Chelford Road and NOT Toft Road.
Poems, Pints and Pimms
Celebration of 10 Years of Knutsford Literature Festival
8pm - Toft Cricket Club - £2
Knutsford Literature Festival 2009 began with a 'thank you' event for Friends of the Festival in April - with author Adele Geras.
ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
Please return booking form to:
Knutsford Literature Festival 2009
76 Glebelands Road, Knutsford, Cheshire. WA16 9DZ
Cheques and Postal Orders payable to:
Knutsford Literature Festival
Cash should not be sent in postal applications
Please enclose a stamped, addressed envelope.
Priority Bookings: Friends of the Festival can make priority bookings, by post, up to:
Monday 01 September 2009
General Postal Bookings:
Accepted from Tuesday 01 September 2009
In-Person Bookings:
From Monday 07 September 2009
Tickets from:
Knutsford Tourist Information Centre
The Council Office, Toft Road,
Knutsford.
Tel: 01565 632 611
Open: Monday to Thursday 08.45 - 17.00
Friday 08.45 - 16.30
Saturday 09.00 - 13.00
Refunds and admissions:
Please check your tickets as soon as you receive them. The Festival cannot refund money, nor exchange tickets, except when an event is cancelled. The Festival reserves the right to refuse admission and to change or amend events if necessary.
Books will be available to purchase at all book signing events.
The Knutsford Literature Festival is now in its 10th Year.
The committee would like to thank all Friends of the Festival
for their continuing support and the following for their kind sponsorship:
Waterstone's Bookshop, King Street Knutsford
Barrington Sports of Parkgate Industrial Estate, Knutsford
Leicester Warren Hall, Bexton Lane, Knutsford
