Frinton Literary Festival 2013

The dates for our 12^th Literary Festival are Thursday 10^th – Sunday 13^th October.

Following the success of our inaugural Crime & Wine evening last year, we will be repeating this at McGrigor Hall on the Thursday.  All other events will take place at Frinton Golf Club.

We are currently in the process of designing a dedicated website for the Festival, so watch this space for updates.

We would also love to hear your ideas and views about authors – so please feel free to contact us using the contact page – or simply give Sally or Judith a ring at the shop.

Welcome to our 11th Annual Literary Festival

Thursday 11^th – Sunday 14^th October 2012

Thursday 11^th October – McGrigor Hall – 7.30pm.  Tickets £10.00

Crime & Wine with James Runcie and Ruth Dugdall

This is our new venture – an informal evening with wine and nibbles and two ‘thrilling’ authors.  We hope to make this a regular part of the festival, for Frinton fans of murder and mystery!

James Runcie will be talking about Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, the first in a series of six works of detective fiction, entitled The Grantchester Mysteries. Set in the early 1950s, this charming new sleuth will appeal to all Miss Marple fans!

By contrast, Ruth Dugdall uses her experience in the probation service in Felixstowe to create some very disturbing characters in her psychological thrillers, showing how very ordinary people can behave in quite extraordinary ways!

Friday 12^th October – 8.00pm at Frinton Golf Club – Tickets £7.50

Mining stories from the past: Historical Novelists in Conversation

Join authors Barbara Erskine and Rachel Hore as they discuss the challenges, pleasures and pitfalls of writing historical fiction.

The Festival’s first patron and fervent supporter, Barbara lives in Beaumont-cum-Moze.  Barbara has written12 internationally bestselling novels, beginning with the much loved Lady of Hay recently reissued by HarperCollins and her latest River of Destiny was published in July this year.  Most of her work involves characters living in the present day being affected by some paranormal activity, drawing them into a different time frame, where they are led to uncover secrets hidden for centuries.

Rachel, who lives in Norwich with her family, is the author of five novels with a strong historical component.  Her third The Glass Painter’s Daughter, was shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year in 2010.  A Place of Secrets was selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club in 2010 and her most recent A Gathering Storm was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.  Her next novel, The Silent Tide is scheduled for publication in April 2013.

Saturday 13^th October – 12.30pm at Frinton Golf Club – Tickets £25

The Philomena Dwyer Literary Lunch with Louise Miller

Louise will be talking about her new book A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes.   The only woman to serve as a soldier in the First World War, this account charts her incredible story, from her tomboyish childhood in genteel Victorian England, her mission to Serbia as a Red Cross volunteer and subsequent military enrolment, her celebrity lecture tours of Europe, her marriage to a fellow officer and her survival of a Gestapo prison during the Second World War to her final years in Suffolk.

Sunday 14^th October – Frinton Golf Club – 3pm.  Tickets £12.50

Afternoon Tea with Simon Heffer

The author, columnist and current Editor of Mail Comment Online, the website for The Daily Mail, will be talking about his recent publication Strictly English: The correct way to write…and why it matters.

6^TH -9^TH OCTOBER 2011 – CELEBRATING OUR 10^TH ANNIVERSARY

Here is an outline of this year’s programme.  Please come into the shop to book your tickets.

Thursday 6^th October

An evening of Literary Fun with members of Frinton Summer Theatre.

McGrigor Hall 7.30pm.  Tickets £10

Friday 7^th October

An Evening with Peter Sissons talking about his new memoir When One Door Closes.

Frinton Golf Club at 7.30pm.  Tickets £7.50

Saturday 8^th October

The Philomena Dwyer Lunch with Sophie Hannah who will be talking about her latest psychological thriller Lasting Damage.

Frinton Golf Club at 12.30pm.  Tickets £25

Saturday 8^th October

An Evening with Allan Mallinson talking about his new Matthew Harvey novel On His Majesty’s Service, together with his best selling history The Making of the British Army.

Frinton Golf Club at 7.30pm.  Tickets £7.50

Sunday 9^th October

Guided Walk with author of Essex Coast Walk, Peter Caton

Frinton Golf Club at 11.00am.  Tickets £5 with £2 going towards the Community Mini-Bus Appeal.  Children Free.

Sunday 9^th October

Afternoon Tea with Gervase Phinn

Frinton Golf Club at 3.00pm.  Tickets £12.50

Schools’ Programme
The Frinton Literary Festival is committed to working with the whole community and once again we are delighted to have secured authors to visit all 5 local primary schools and Tendring Technology College.

The authors taking part this year are:

• Alan Gibbons
• Gill Harvey
• Sally Kindberg (illustrator)

The 9th Frinton Literary Festival takes place from
Friday 24th September until Sunday 26th September 2010.
This year all events will take place at the Golf Club.

Friday 24th September – Dan Cruickshank.   8pm.  Tickets £7.50

In his latest book, one of our leading historians describes how Georgian London was shaped by the sex industry.  He draws on memoirs, newspaper accounts and court records to give us vivid portraits of some of the women who became involved in the world of prostitution.   As Dan Cruickshank powerfully argues, these women, and many thousands like them, shaped eighteenth-century London, and they also helped determine its future development.

Saturday 25th – The Philomena Dwyer Lunch.  12.30pm.  Tickets £25

Carol Drinkwater, actress and bestselling author, will be talking about her new book ‘Return to the Olive Farm’.  Published in July, this will be the sixth of her much-loved memoirs, based on her life on a Provençal olive farm.

Saturday 25th – Reading Group Evening – from 7pm.  Tickets £10

Bloomsbury Publishing are bringing us two authors: Marika Cobbold and Jane Rusbridge to read from, talk about and answer questions on their latest novels – ‘Aphrodite’s Workshop for Reluctant Lovers’ and ‘The Devil’s Music’, respectively.

This is a chance for your Book Club / Reading Group to get together with other groups to discuss the book or books and meet the authors.  The idea is that you choose one of the books for your group to read and then come along, sit together and talk about the book (and maybe catch up on news as well!!) then have the opportunity to ask the authors anything that may come out of your discussion.

Tickets are £10 which includes one of the books and we are also offering 10% off the other book should you wish to read both before the event.   See the book club tab for further details.

Sunday 26th – Afternoon Tea with Barbara Trapido at 3pm.  Tickets £12.50

Well-loved and respected author Barbara Trapido will be talking about her latest novel ‘Sex and Stravinsky’, a book which throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, it comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.

Schools’ Programme
The Frinton Literary Festival is committed to working with the whole community.  Last year we took authors into three local primary schools.  This year we are delighted to confirm that we have secured authors for all 5 local primary schools and Tendring Technology College.

The authors taking part this year are:

• Alan Gibbons
• Gill Harvey
• Julie Irwin
• Lauren St John
• Leslie Wilson

This festival would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors and the continued goodwill and interest of local residents.

Our Annual Fundraising Quiz Night will be held on Friday
10th September at the McGrigor Hall.

Tickets are £5 per person and tables of 6 are recommended.  This includes a ploughman’s supper.  Beer, wine and soft drinks will be on sale at very reasonable prices and we would be grateful if you would support the Festival by purchasing drinks from us, rather than bringing your own!  We trust you understand this request.  Many thanks from the Frinton Literary Festival Committee.

Frinton Literary Festival

Speakers from 2002-2009