Welcome to the Second Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 2010

Writers & Guests


Our 2010 line-up of distinguished guests includes…

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy OBE, Man Booker Prize Winner Hilary Mantel CBE, Simon Brett, Sir Christopher Meyer, Susan Hill, Caroline Taggart, Richard Willis, Mal Peet, Ian Mortimer, Jeremy Musson, Hugh Williams, Alex Wade, Anna Beer, Ian Frost, Bill Studdiford and many others.

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

Britain’s first female Poet Laureate and champion of the dramatic monologue…. [Read more...]

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel CBE

Hilary Mantel is one of our most important living writers. She is the author of eleven books… [Read more...]

Susan Hill

Susan Hill

Susan Hill’s many books include The Woman in Black and Mrs de Winter. She is a prolific writer… [Read more...]

Simon Brett

Simon Brett

Simon Brett is the much-loved author of the Fethering series, the Mrs Pargeter[Read more...]

Jeremy Musson

Jeremy Musson

Jeremy Musson is a writer, broadcaster, architectural historian, and a former National… [Read more...]

Sir Christopher Meyer

Sir Christopher Meyer

Sir Christopher Meyer served as Ambassador to the United Kingdom to the United States from… [Read more...]

Hugh Williams

Hugh Williams

Hugh Williams read Modern History at Oxford before beginning his career in television… [Read more...]

Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer is well known for challenging conservative views about history and making… [Read more...]

Anna Beer

Anna Beer

Anna Beer is the author of Bess: The Life of Lady Ralegh, Wife to Sir Walter and an… [Read more...]

Alex Wade

Alex Wade

Alex Wade is a writer, freelance journalist and occasional media lawyer… [Read more...]

Mal Peet

Mal Peet

Mal Peet’s success can be measured not just by the critical acclaim his books receive… [Read more...]

Ian Frost & Bill Studdiford

Ian Frost
& Bill Studdiford

Ian Frost & Bill Studdiford will be ‘Bringing Byron to Budleigh”… [Read more...]

Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart has been an editor of non-fiction books for nearly thirty years… [Read more...]