Top notch authors in Essex (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette)

Top notch authors in Essex

11:51am Monday 8th February 2010

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There’s a host of award winning authors lined up for this year’s Essex Book Festival.

The annual event in its 11th year has signed up an impressive host of top name writers to appear at venues across the county.

The festival which starts in March includes festival patrons broadcaster Germaine Greer and journalist Francis Wheen, who both live in the county.

Among the other top draw names will be former spin doctor Alistair Campbell and BBC news presenter George Alagiah.

Best-selling authors include Margaret Drabble, Rose Tremain, Penelope Lively, Alexander McCall Smith, Mike Gayle, Joanne Harris, Sadie and Melissa Jones, and Reggie Perrin creator David Nobbs.

Local writers making a welcome return to the festival include historical novelist Barbara Erskine, who lives near Great Bentley, former poet laureate Andrew Motion, originally from Stisted, and Wivenhoe-based poet and singer/songwriter Martin Newell.

At Walton library there is a poetry reading called the Manningtree Stanza on March 2 at 2.30pm.

Essex historian and novelist Richard Woodman will be celebrating the bicentenary of the Martello Tower when he speaks at Jaywick Library on March 13 at 2pm.

At Clacton library Manningtree author Jon Fink wuill be talking about his new compelling new novel based on the Siege of Sidney Street.

Full details in Clacton Gazette

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