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Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 March 2009

 

 

 

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2009 Festival programme will be available in January 2009. Contact us to go on the mailing list.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADVANCE NOTICE

WELCOME TO THE 6th KING'S SUTTON LITERARY FESTIVAL

at the Memorial Hall

Saturday 10am-6pm   -   Sunday 12am-5.30pm (times to be confirmed)


2009 Festival  Watch this space....

 

Plans are afoot for another exciting Festival in 2009.  The programme will be published in January, so contact us if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

 

 

The 2008 Festival

 

The weekend Festival, sponsored by the Banbury Guardian, is gathering a mounting local and national reputation. It broke past records with this, its fifth, event in March 2008. The Millenium Hall in this Northants 'Village of the Year' was abuzz with browsers at bookstalls, local authors to meet, a workshop for young writers, chat about reading, writing and books over lunch, tea cups and wine glasses. Speakers always enjoy their visit and book signings at this unstuffy festival and their sessions were a sell-out this year.

 

Sir John Mortimer and Steven Berkhoff brought typically robust and witty perspectives to contemporary theatre, writing and politics. Radio 4 veteran and life peer, Bishop Richard Harries interwove religious insight with literary stimulus. Africa held the spotlight with Lawrence Potter, hotfoot from teaching in Rwanda , and Tim Butcher of the 'Telegraph', recounting his adventures up the Congo - Blood River - in the steps of Stanley. History had its say with period crime writers Mark Billingham and Ann Perry', and under Penguin sponsorship, Catherine Bailey's account of Yorkshire coalmining, and Clare Clark's of the building of London sewers,

 

2008 Guest Speakers

Our speakers are chosen for their enthusiasm, knowledge and love of books. 

Catherine Bailey

Steven Berkoff

 

©Charlie Hopkinson

Mark Billingham

 

 

 

Tim Butcher

 

Clare Clark

 

Martin Gurdon

 ©Diocese of Oxford

Richard Harries

John Mortimer

©Dianne Hinds

Anne Perry

Lawrence Potter

 

Our esteemed interviewers were: John Duncan, Zoe Johnson, Peter Kyte, Patrick Neale, Garry O’Connor and Winifred Robinson - respectively a retired Archdeacon, two barristers (one a QC), a leading independent bookseller, a renowned biographer/writer and equally renowned BBC journalist. 

 

We look forward to welcoming you in 2009

     

 

 

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Our sponsors

 

In 2008 we were grateful for the support of the Banbury Guardian, who sponsored the printing of the programme. Savills generously provided a banner on the Bodicote Flyover, and Cherwell Valley Silos erected a banner on their site. 

 

www.banburytoday.co.uk

 

 

www.savills.com

 

Cherwell Valley Silos

www.cherwellvalleysilos.co.uk

 

We thank also:

 

Purely Plants, Middleton Cheney (floral decorations) www.purelyplants.co.uk

&

King's Sutton Scaffolding

 


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