2009 Festival Photos
Pictures from three glorious days at the 2009 Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
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Sarah Harrison has written 25 novels including the bestsellers "The Flowers of the Field", "An Imperfect Lady" and "How to write a Block Buster".
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Virginia Ironside is a journalist and author. Her recent book "No, I Don't Want to Join a Book Club" has been a tremendous success both in English and its translation into eight languages. Currently she writes for both the Independent and the Oldie.
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Sponsors' Launch Party at The Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton
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Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s novel about the machinations of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII is the hottest favourite for the Booker prize. Mantel, 57, has never been a serious contender for the Booker before (she has been longlisted previously) but within 48 hours of this year’s longlist being announced, she jumped from being an outsider to the 2-1 favourite.
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Pamela Neville-Sington at Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 2009.
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Legendary crime writer HRF Keating in discussion with Simon Brett at the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 2009
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Simon Brett is well known as a writer of the popular radio series "After Henry". He is also the author if three successful series of detective books.
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Members of 'The Detection Club' at Tobias Restaurant, Budleigh Salterton. The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, John Rhode, Jessie Rickard and H. C. Bailey. (H.R.F. Keating was President during 1985-2000, and Simon Brett is the current President.)
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Michael Foreman is an award-winning British author and illustrator, mainly for children.
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Award winning crime writer Val McDermid at Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
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Pictures of Budleigh Salterton, Devon.
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Local Poets & Writers
Readings by Local Poets and Writers, who will sign their books, will follow on from the Writers’ Workshop.
| Date: | Sunday 20th September 2009 |
| Time: | 4.15 pm |
| Place: | Salem Chapel |
| Tickets: | Free |
The Quintet
An innovative and fascinating session involving five local distinguished authors and speakers talking about their work with illustrations.
Sean Day-Lewis, Professor Alan Emery, Ralph Feltham, Sir Keith Sykes and Dan Jacobson.
Sean Day-Lewis will be speaking about his father Cecil Day-Lewis.
| Date: | Friday 18th September 2009 |
| Time: | 10.30 am |
| Place: | Temple Church Hall, Fore Street |
| Tickets: | Free |
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The Guardian | Saturday Interview: Hilary Mantel
‘I accumulated an anger that would rip a roof off’: Author Hilary Mantel has resisted shallow interpretations of her macabre work as domestic novels. Now her latest pitch-dark novel is the favourite to win the Booker prize
The Guardian – 12.09.2009
There is an anecdote Hilary Mantel tells, about herself at six, and “a little girl in my class putting her hand up and saying, ‘Miss! My mother says there’s no such person as the devil.’ And I remember thinking through all sides of the question. I thought: her mother’s told her that because she’s having nightmares. And Miss doesn’t know what to say! Because how can she say, ‘Your mother was wrong’? It was the most delicious moment.”
Her large pale eyes look intent, and mischievous. “But of course, I did myself believe in the devil. I just thought I was made of stronger stuff than that little girl.” Read more
Coastline is an irresisitible lure to line-up of writers
Sue Lawley – Western Morning News 15.08.2009
Budleigh Salterton, one of the jewels of Britain’s only World Heritage Site, sits on a coastline of great beauty which dates back 180 million years. But now its worldwide reputation may come to depend on something more than its splendid situation – its taste for literature.
Our coastline may be Jurassic – but Budleigh Salterton’s first literary festival, to be staged this autumn, is very much of the 21st century. We’ve called it Writing By The Sea – a notion that a lot of people appear to find attractive. Not least, I’m delighted to say, a number of talented writers who’ve accepted our invitation to attend.
The list is enough to make any bookworm squirm with delight – from crime-writer Val McDermid, author of Wire In The Blood, to Michael Morpurgo, the former Children’s Laureate; from Simon Brett, creator of Radio 4’s After Henry, to Sarah Harrison, who’ll be telling us How To Write A Blockbuster. Read more
HRF Keating at Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
H R F Keating, author of the best-loved Inspector Ghote series, will be speaking at the first ever Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, running from the 18th – 20th September. Keating is part of an impressive line-up of authors including Hilary Mantel, Simon Brett, Michael Mopurgo, Val McDermid and many more. He will be talking about his work, including his latest release A Small Case for Inspector Ghote?.
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Hilary Mantel at Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
Hilary Mantel will be taking part on day two of the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival. Her latest novel, Wolf Hall, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009, is a historical novel about Henry VIII’s minister Thomas Cromwell.
This is Budleigh Salterton's second literary festival.
