Festival Preview
With the summer festival season well under way here in the festival office we're busy inviting a host of literary luminaries to Cambridge Wordfest Winter 2010. Amongst those who have enthusiastically accepted is the legendary creator of Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin, with a new Tale set in Barbery Lane, San Francisco. Armistead is in the UK for the first time in four years to promote his latest novel Mary Ann in Autumn; Jeanette Winterson is paying us a visit in this 25th Anniversary year of the publication of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; we also have award-winning biographer Hilary Spurling on the Nobel prize-winning novelist and author of The Good Earth,Pearl Buck; Intense and acclaimed actor, director, writer and playwright, Steven Berkoff will be discussing his remarkable memoir, Diary of a Juvenile Delinquent; best-selling author Kate Mosse (Labyrinth, Sepulchre) pays her first visit to Cambridge Wordfest to talk about her latest novel Winter Ghosts, a haunting ghost story set in France in 1928; Journalist, best-selling novelist and Cambridge resident Allison Pearson will discuss her much awaited second novel I Think I Love You. Allison will be in conversation with Natasha Walter about adolescent love, David Cassidy and teenage girls. We’re also delighted to announce that we are hosting a reading by the five shortlisted authors for the BBC National Short Story Award. The award which is celebrating its 5th year is due to be announced the day after the readings.
Cambridge Wordfest Winter 2010, Sunday 28th November
Box Office Opens 29 October 2010
Priority Booking for Friends of the Festival begins 22 October. To become a friend of the festival click here
