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This year we will be moving all events to the Tennis Club, following the success of the Crime & Wine evening last year.

Thursday 9^th October at 7.30p. Tickets £12    

Crime & Wine with Sophie Hannah & Fergus McNeill

Internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction Sophie Hannah will be talking about her latest thriller The Telling Error as well as her new novel starring Hercule Poirot, approved by the Agatha Christie estate and due to be published in September 2014.

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Sophie will be sharing the platform with Fergus McNeill.  Fergus has just published his second thriller Knife Edge, the dramatic follow-up to Eye Contact featuring his Detective Inspector Harland.

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Friday 10^th October at 8.00pm 

An Evening with BBC Foreign Affairs Producer Oggy Boytchev

For the first time Boytchev, who grew up in poverty in communist Bulgaria, discloses his personal journey – from political asylum seeker to one of the BBC’s most experienced and respected broadcasters.  Packed with previously unpublished anecdotes, including those about the BBC, Simpson & I: Between Two Worlds is described as a “heart-warming and heart-stopping rollercoaster”.

Tickets £8.00

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Saturday 11^th October

The Philomena Dwyer Literary Lunch at 12.30pm. Tickets £27.50

with bestselling author Santa Montefiore

Known for her ‘sweeping stories of love and families spanning continents and decades’The Times, Santa will be talking about her latest book published on 28^th July – The Beekeeper’s Daughter.

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Sunday 13^th October – Afternoon Tea at 3pm. Tickets £15

Clare & Christy Campbell co-authors of BONZO’S WAR

Clare Campbell is an author and journalist, writing regularly for the

Daily Mail.  She also ghosted the national bestseller Bringing Down the Krays (2012) by Bobby Teale.  Her husband and co-author Christy Campbell is the former defence correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph.  Bonzo’s War is the untold story of what happened to the nation’s pets during WW2 – an unforgettable account of the comfort pets bring us in times of strife.

 

 

AfternoonTea with Natasha Solomons

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

McGrigor Hall 7.30pm.  Tickets £10

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

Frinton Golf Club at 7.30pm.  Tickets £7.50

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

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

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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

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.