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Folkestone Literary Festival

it's on from the Monday 20th to Saturday 25th of September, so we'll miss it all, but you shouldn't. Various venues, various times, various prices, highlights seem to me to be Clarissa Dickson-Wright, John Hegley and William Hague... see folkestoneli...

Terry Jones tonight

And working hard on a gift voucher system for work today, it's doing my swede in a bit, but I've just done my first successful transactions over the web, bought me a �500 gift voucher over the web, and used it to buy some stuff. Not real stuff, not a...

Folkestone literary festival kicks off

We've got tickets on the way for a few events including David Starkey and Terry Jones, get yours at folkestonelitfest.co.uk/:We have carefully put together nine days of eclectic and exciting world-class authors and performers to entertain you. These ...

Oof, just deleted the whole site

Trying to save a bit of disk space, just erased everything, hope I am recovering it OK...Terry Jones was good last night at the Literary Festival, though he was rushing a bit, think he was trying to squeeze too much material into a truncated time slo...

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008

Where is the lineup? folkestonelitfest.co.uk has nothing yet. I really should have already joined up as a friend and be running their site for them shouldn't I...Names I've heard so far include [abe]Will Self[/abe], [abe]John Hegley[/abe] and a retur...

Susie Dent's coming to Folkestone

Susie Dent of Countdown's "Dictionary Corner" is coming to Folkestone as part of Folkestone Literary Festival 2008. At least I hope it's the same Susie Dent. We watch Countdown every day on 40D, so this will be nice.She has a regular publication call...

Folkestone Literary Festival lineup out at last

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008 official site has the lineup at last, in a hard to digest pdf format, get it here. All the show times, runners, riders, etc, though I wish they'd put out a text version a bit quicker instead of waiting for that to co...

FOLKESTONE LITERARY FESTIVAL 2008

FOLKESTONE LITERARY FESTIVAL 2008 - 1st to 9th NovemberThe full programme is now available on the festival website www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk where you can also book tickets online.Top names this year include Kate Adie, Will Self, Denis Norden, Sir ...

Got my Folkestone Literary Festival tickets

We're off to talks by [abe]David Starkey[/abe] and [abe]Susie Dent[/abe], and I've also ended up with one for Sandi Toksvig. Clare was meant to be going with her Mum, but they've double booked. There are more things I'm tempted to go to, but it would...

Folkestone Literary Festival Brochure - OUT NOW!

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008 - 1st to 9th NovemberIf you haven't managed to check out the programme for this year's festival online you'll be pleased to know that the brochures are now available in many locations around Folkestone and the surrou...

sandy toksvig tickets

Dear Gerald - I am desperate to get 2 tickets for Sandi Toksvig's gig on Nov 8 - they are sold out and the office say no refunds are given so NOONE will send theirs back. Any ideas?

Clare Baker

I might know of one ticket

I think I know someone who might not be able to go, stay tuned, or email me - fg@folkestonegerald.com - or maybe some other kind soul will read this and reply?[abe]Sandi Toksvig[/abe] is also doing a date at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury, have...

David Starkey Friday

Just been to our first Literary Festival event of this year, Susie Dent, very good though there were a few technical issues. If you're going to David Starkey say, and think you might want to get a book signed by him, why not order it from Amazon and ...

Non political news

Ah, the weekend, seems like so long ago now. Chocka at work this week, I am shut away in isolation for two weeks to work on a new project. Good to be without distractions of people coming up to my desk, and actually good to be so busy, it's making th...

I fought the law, and the post office won

Damn, tried to beat the system this week, and failed. We went to see [abe]David Starkey[/abe] last night, presenting his new book Henry: Virtuous Prince, part one of his biography. Very interesting, and makes a change to sitting in front of the telly...

Literary festival too high brow then?

Folkestone Literary Festival is now to be known as Folkestone Book Festival

RE: Literary festival too high brow then?

So many people called it the Folkestone Literacy Festival, this is a great idea and should attract more people.

surely no-one who ever went to the lit fest would make that mistake?

If you want it to be more popular, drop the "book" altogether, call it "folkestone fighting festival" or something

RE: surely no-one who ever went to the lit fest would make that mistake?

No probably not, but surely we should be looking to attract new people to the festival if we want it to continue to be a success.People regularly move to and from Folkestone which means our demographic is always changing and it would be wrong to thin...

HG Wells ART at The Neville Pundole Gallery

Here Now In support of the Folkestone Book Festival I have specially commissioned pieces by several artists, inspired by the works of H. G. Wells. The exhibition is comprised of works in Pottery, Glass and Paint; all drawing their influence from not ...

Alexei Sayle, Germaine Greer, Dan Cruickshank, Martina Cole, Steven Berkoff and Arthur Smith are just a few of the well-known authors taking part in t

Full details probably on folkestonelitfest.co.uk

Folkestone book festival highlights at the Quarterhouse

Folkestone Book Festival 2011Our most popular and enduring festival returns from Friday 4 to Saturday 12 November. Once again we'll have a packed line-up of literary events and guests from the worlds of history, radio, television, music and comedy. ...

Lone Star Comedy

A literary festival special, featuring Robin Ince, Josie Long, MC Alistair Barrie.

Nobody’s Child: Kate Adie talks to Ian Black

Part of Folkestone Literary Festival...

Festival Launch Party

Join us for an informal celebration to launch the 2006 Festival in style. Our Friends, Sponsors and some of the stars of the next 10 days will be present, in anticipation of what promises to be the best Folkestone Literary Festival ever!

The Living Room: Fringe Poetry Evening

part of Folkestone Literary Festival...

History and Headlines: Michael Buerk

part of Folkestone Literary Festival...

David Starkey

Folkestone Literary Festival event, a talk on the modern history of the royals, by local the TV historian.

Folkestone Literary Festival Event - Folkestone Triennial 2008

A chance to meet Ivan and Heather Morrison who will take part in Folkestone Triennial, June - September 2008. TICKETS ON SALE FROM: 01/10/07 – or 01303 842192. Email: info@folkestone.litfest.co.uk

Terry Jones

Folkestone Literary Festival event, a history talk by the Python, we're going, ace.

Folkestone Literary Festival

Don't forget to invite us to the launch ceremony or whatever - fg@folkestonegerald.com

David Starkey

Part of the lit fest, see you there.

Sandi Toksvig

Part of the lit fest, see you there.

Folkestone Literary Festival 2009 preview

special festival preview evening will take place on Thursday, October 29 at 5.30pm at Quarterhouse, where actress Leslie Caron will talk about her life. This will be followed by a screening of the 1958 film Gigi in which she starred

Jeremy Hardy

Part of the literary festival