Welcome to the Essex Book Festival!
The annual festival, jam-packed full of well-known authors and themes ranging from history to health and creative writing to crime, is always a popular event and its eleventh year is no exception.
With excitement growing tickets have already SOLD OUT for Andrew McCall Smith, Margaret Drabble, and Alastair Campbell, and just a handful of tickets remain for Joanne Harris, Lesley Pearse, and Reggie Perrin creator David Nobbs. But these are selling fast.
There's still time to snap up tickets for Andrew Motion who will be talking about his experience as poet laureate; Germaine Greer who will be discussing the County's diverse culture along with BBC Essex's Dave Monk; best selling novelist and ex-agony uncle Mike Gayle; and popular author Maggie Gee.
Why not take the opportunity to find out about Dutch authors Tommy Wieringa or Otto de Kat, or listen to Bee Rowlatt, a London journalist, and May Witwit, an Iraqi academic in Baghdad, tell us how their friendship grew while talking about Jane Austen.
Other top names for 2010 include the BBC newsreader George Alagiah, multi prize-winning author Rose Tremain and journalist and broadcaster Francis Wheen.
If you haven't been to the festival before then this short film will give you an idea of the range with famous authors, new authors and many authors in between.The festival also takes place at a range of venues right across Essex which makes it really accessible!
To find out exactly what the 2010 festival has for you, use the search boxes on the right or pick up a festival brochure from your local Essex library. To see the brochure in LARGE PRINT click here. The brochure is also available on audio CD. Please ask at your library or call 01245 244937 for a copy.
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