Award Ceremony
Adjudication of the festival's poetry competitions by Louis de Bernières, Sue Ashby and Mary White.
Book Stall & signings; books by the adjudicators and local authors plus the festival’s own bargain book stall.
Sunday 18th October
Bookstall from 2.30pm, ceremony begins 3.00pm
Afternoon tea
The Lecture Hall
Free admission
Louis de Bernières had a variety of jobs before writing full time. His most famed novel, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and sold 2.5 million copies in the UK. His novels include Birds Without Wings, A Partisan’s Daughter and a children’s story; Red Dog. He is also a poet and musician.
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