Cheltenham Festivals» The 1960 Cheltenham Booker Prize | Cheltenham Festivals http://cheltenhamfestivals.com World class Jazz, Science, Music and Literature Festivals in Cheltenham, UK. See what's on, book tickets and read the latest news. Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The 1960 Cheltenham Booker Prize http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature-2010/the-1960-cheltenham-booker-prize/ http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature-2010/the-1960-cheltenham-booker-prize/#comments Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:00:00 +0000 admin http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/festival/the-1960-cheltenham-booker-prize/ Which 1960 book deserves to win our very own Booker? You have the vote! Join Ion Trewin and our panel of judges, James Naughtie, Susan Hill, Toby Litt, Sarah Churchwell and Erica Wagner, as they debate the merits of Lynne Reid Banks’ The L-Shaped Room, Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls and David Storey’s This Sporting Life. With an introduction by John Coldstream.

]]> http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature-2010/the-1960-cheltenham-booker-prize/feed/ 0 Ted Hughes: Christopher Reid and Erica Wagner http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature-2010/ted-hughes-christopher-reid-and-erica-wagner/ http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature-2010/ted-hughes-christopher-reid-and-erica-wagner/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:30:00 +0000 admin http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/festival/ted-hughes-christopher-reid-and-erica-wagner/ Ted Hughes’ letters are a magnificent and revealing record of his life and work. Poet Christopher Reid, who edited a selection of the letters of Ted Hughes, joins The Times’ Erica Wagner to discuss this exceptional, eloquent and moving record of an extraordinary life, with live readings by an actor of letters specially selected by Christopher Reid.

]]> http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature-2010/ted-hughes-christopher-reid-and-erica-wagner/feed/ 0 Salman Rushdie http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature-2010/salman-rushdie/ http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature-2010/salman-rushdie/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:00:00 +0000 admin http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/festival/salman-rushdie/ In a rare festival visit one of our most prominent contemporary writers, Salman Rushdie, author of the Booker Prize-winning Midnight’s Children, joins Erica Wagner, literary editor of The Times, to discuss his life and work, and new novel, Luka and the Fire of Life.

]]> http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature-2010/salman-rushdie/feed/ 0 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 8–17 October 2010 http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/ http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:03:09 +0000 admin http://87.237.69.118/?page_id=13 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival
8–17 October 2010

About the festival…

One of the oldest and best loved literature festivals in the world… lectures, poetry readings, children’s events, interviews, storytelling, book groups, writing workshops, education projects, live literature… save the date, 8–17 October 2010.

“One of the biggest events in the literature world.”

BBC Gloucestershire

For a taste of the festival view our 2009 brochure.

Secret Gardens…

Monty and Sarah Don

Find out about our Secret Garden series of events and plant the seed of horticultural inspiration this autumn…
Secret Gardens — gardening at the Literature Festival

Introducing Tweet Poetry…

In the run up to The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival we’ll be looking to the twittersphere for inspiration as poet A F Harrold writes a specially commissioned poem…
read more | follow @chelttwitfest

The Bonne Maman Big Read — Far From the Madding Crowd

The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival is joining forces with Bonne Maman Pâtisserie and Vintage Classics for our 2010 Big Read — Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
more about the Bonne Maman Big Read

British Sign Language event programme

Summerfield Charitable Trust

Following on from last year’s pilot project, and with funding from the Summerfield Charitable Trust, we are delighted to be working again this year with Gloucestershire Deaf Association to offer signing at some of the 2010 Festival events. A British Sign Language interpreter will be on stage and we have allocated the most appropriate seats for members of the audience who would like to benefit from this service. Please visit the box office, or contact the GDA Office by text on 0787 561860, fax 01452 372288 or email at admin@glosdeaf.org.uk to book your seats.

Events which will be signed at the 2010 Literature Festival:

If you would like to know more about the work of the Gloucestershire Deaf Association, please visit www.glosdeaf.org.uk

Extra event — Members’ Bookbinding Workshop

Event W28, Thursday 14 October, 10am – 1pm, £45 (inc. £15 of materials), membership discount is not available for this event.

Join conservator Sue Crossley for an introduction to historic bookbinding skills. Using traditional hand tools you will make a leather bound journal from cotton rag printing paper and vegetable tanned goat skins in a range of beatuiful colours. This workshiop is suitable for complete beginners.

Literature Festival highlights — a look back at 2009…

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One of the oldest and best loved Literature Festivals in the world, with its signature blend of award-winning writers and world-renowned thinkers, the festival is a crucible for topical debate and discussion. It is a celebration of the joy of books, the thrill of debate, and the unique two-way conversation between writer and reader.

“I can’t think where or when I might have such a fine, fascinating entertaining time as I did these past two weekends.”

Erica Wagner, The Times

Take a look at what our celebrity guests thought of the 2009 festival!

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