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The Frinton Literary Festival 2019 will be held from:
THURSDAY 17th OCTOBER
to
SUNDAY 20th OCTOBER

Put the dates in your diary!

Crime and Wine
with
Isabelle Grey and Elly Griffiths

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isabelle Grey graduated from Cambridge and became a freelance journalist before focusing on screenwriting and fiction. She is the author of two standalone novels and an Essex-based crime series featuring DI Grace Fisher. She has written for film, radio and television, including episodes of such long-running series as Wycliffe, Midsomer Murders and The Bill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elly Griffiths read English at King’s College London, worked in a library, for a magazine, then became Editorial Director for children’s books at HarperCollins. Her bestselling series of Dr Ruth Galloway novels, featuring a forensic archaeologist, have won the CWA Dagger in the Library, and been shortlisted three times for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.

An evening
with
Edward Stourton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Born in Nigeria then educated at Cambridge, Edward Stourton is perhaps best known as a presenter of BBC Radio Four programmes including The World at One and The World this Weekend and is a regular contributor to the Today programme where for ten years he was one of the main presenters. His last book Auntie’s War is a journey through WW2 with the BBC and his new book celebrates 150 years of Hodder & Stoughton.

The Philomena Dwyer Literary Lunch
with
Susan Fletcher

Susan Fletcher was born in Birmingham, studied at York and then graduated from the UEA Creative Writing Course. Her first novel, Eve Green, won the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award and became a Richard and Judy Summer Read in 2005. She has since written many other novels, such as Oystercatchers, Corrag, Witch Light, The Highland Witch and The Silver Dark Sea.

June 1914 and a young woman – Clara Waterfield – is summoned to a large stone house in Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a greenhouse with exotic plants from Kew Gardens, to create a private paradise for the owner of Shadowbrook. Yet, on arrival, Clara hears rumours: something is wrong with this quiet, wisteria- covered house. The owner is mostly absent; the housekeeper and maids seem afraid. And soon, Clara understands their fear: for something – or someone – is walking through the house at night. Reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier, this is a wonderful, atmospheric Gothic page-turner. House of Glass is a compelling, wonderful historical gothic novel about lies, love and ghosts set against the backdrop of a Britain on the cusp of the First World War.

 

Afternoon tea
with
Tamsin Treverton Jones

Tamsin Treverton Jones is a writer and poet. She studied French at Bristol University and went on to be Head of Press at the RSC, the Royal Court Theatre and Bath Literature Festival. She has produced and presented features for radio and programmed literary events for digital broadcast. Windblown is her first book.

 

 

The Great Storm of 1987 is etched firmly into the national memory. Everyone who was there that night remembers how hurricane force winds struck southern Britain without warning, claiming eighteen lives, uprooting more than fifteen million trees and reshaping the landscape for future generations. Thirty years on, the discovery of an old photograph inspires the author to make a journey into that landscape: weaving her own memories and personal experiences with those of fishermen and lighthouse keepers, rough sleepers and refugees, she creates a unique portrait of this extraordinary event and a moving exploration of legacy and loss. ‘This eloquently written account shows that the Great Storm was a wake-up call, providing a wealth of information that helps us manage our treescape today.’ Tony Kirkham, Head of the Kew Gardens Arboretum

Friday 18^th May 2018

To raise funds for the Frinton Literary Festival, the committee propose:

A General Knowledge Quiz Night

 on Friday 18^th May 2018 at McGrigor Hall at 7.00pm

with Quiz Master Giles Watling, MP

Sponsored by The Book Service (TBS)

Tables of 6 are invited at a cost of £7 per person

to include a light supper.  Wine, Beer & Soft Drinks will be on sale.

Tickets from Caxton Books & Gallery