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.
Tickets have SOLD OUT for Margaret Drabble, Alastair Campbell, David Nobbs, Rose Tremain, Barbara Erskine, George Alagiah and the Women in History event.
But there's still time to snap up tickets for former poet laureate Andrew Motion, and Germaine Greer's discussion panel chaired by BBC Essex's Dave Monk.
Other events to catch include -
Booker nominated author Jon McGregor; Manningtree author Jon Fink; Francesca Kay on her novel set in Fifties Britain; and Tony Klinger, the Essex film-maker and producer talking about The Who.
The Book Festival launched at Chelmsford Library on 4th March. It was a great start to a month of festival events. BBC Essex broadcast the entire event. You can find out more about what went on by looking at the BBC Essex website.
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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