Cambridge Wordfest Spring 2010
9/10/11 April 2010
Get ready for the best in contemporary literature, politics, history and more with this year's Spring Wordfest. Authors appearing include:
- Hilary Mantel, 2009 Booker Prize winner for Wolf Hall;
- Philip Pullman with his new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ;
- Poet Don Paterson, winner of the 2009 Forward Prize and Queen’s Gold Medal;
- Jon McGregor (If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things) and Blake Morrison (And When Did You Last See Your Father?) reading from their new novels;
- Award winning screen writer and novelist Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Launderette), with his new Collected Stories;
- John Simpson, one of the greatest reporters of our day, reading from Unreliable Sources;
- Rebecca Stott, whose novel The Coral Thief is this year’s Book of the Festival.
We've also got Lionel Shriver, Andrew O’Hagan and Prue Leith on a panel discussing Politics & Literature; founder of the 10:10 campaign, Franny Armstrong (The Age of Stupid, McLibel) talking with environmental campaigner Tony Juniper; and pundit Will Hutton on the financial crisis and his new book, Them and Us.
On a lighter note, we celebrate the work of Adrian Mitchell with the cabaret Yes!, performed by Wonderful Beast Theatre Company; Jeremy Hardy reads from his hilarious new book, My Family and Other Strangers; and Friday night brings comedy with Kate Fox and Milton Jones. Children’s events include Francesca Simon with her latest Horrid Henry story and there are loads of workshops, opportunities to meet industry insiders and events for and about new writers.
Do join us for a packed weekend of literary pleasures!
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Some of the Authors
The Full Line up
- Ellah Allfrey
- Christopher Andrew
- Franny Armstrong
- Phillip Augar
- Kat Banyard
- Laura Barber
- Martin Bell
- Craig Bennett
- Adam Blade
- Jo Broughton
- Colette Bryce
- Madeleine Bunting
- Rachel Calder
- Stephanie Calman
- Russell Celyn Jones
- Lucy Cousins
- Algy Craig Hall
- Richard Dearlove
- Patricia Duncker
- Andy English
- Maisy Event
- William Fiennes
- Annie Firbank
- Michael Fishwick
- Adam Foulds
- Kate Fox
- John Freeman
- Anne Garvey
- Malcolm Gaskill
- Ceri Goddard
- Abi Grant
- Sylvia Hallett
- Max Hallett
- Jeremy Hardy
- Jo Herbert
- Celia Hewitt
- Nick Hillman
- Pam Hirsch
- Alex Horne
- Will Hutton
- Hala Jaber
- Sophia Jansson
- Natania Janz
- Ceci Jenkinson
- Milton Jones
- Tony Juniper
- James Kelman
- A.L. Kennedy
- Sian Kevill
- Andrew Kidd
- Hanif Kureishi
- Michael Lawrence
- Prue Leith
- Sonia Leong
- Kathy Lette
- Emily Mackie
- Hilary Mantel
- Emma Mawdsley
- Sylvester McCoy
- Rory McGrath
- Jon McGregor
- Duncan Minshull
- Sasha Mitchell
- Sean Moore
- Blake Morrison
- Daljit Nagra
- Andrew O'Hagan
- Peter Owen Jones
- Jenny Parrott
- Don Paterson
- Rowan Pelling
- RR Prathap
- Matt Prendergast
- Philip Pullman
- Celia Rees
- Sian Reid
- Jane Rusbridge
- Geraldine Ryan
- Amy Sackville
- Max Schaefer
- Marcus Sedgwick
- Susan Sellars
- Jo Shapcott
- Owen Sheers
- Lionel Shriver
- Francesca Simon
- John Simpson
- Ali Smith
- Mortal Storm
- Peter Stothard
- Rebecca Stott
- Jeremy Strong
- Anusha Subramanyam
- Miguel Tantos
- Wonderful Beast Theatre Company
- Victor Watson
- Laura Watson
- Anna Whitelock
- Mary Kay Wilmers
- Lydia Wilson
- Titania Woods
- Evie Wyld
- Daniel Zeichner
