Birmingham Book Festival’s Spring Thing: A Festival in a Day (29th May)

Birmingham Book Festival are holding an exciting new event as a taster for their Autumn Festival. Full details below…

Spring Thing: A Festival in a Day

Saturday 29 May 2010
Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place, Birmingham B3 3HG
10.30am (for a 10.45 start) – 5.30pm.
Sponsored by Newman College

Booking is now open for this day long literature fest featuring Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore, Stuart Maconie, Amanda Smyth, Samantha Harvey, Aifric Campbell, Jo Bell & Jenn Ashworth.

List of Events:

• National Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns to Birmingham for another much-anticipated reading.

• Novelist Helen Dunmore talks about her new novel Betrayal.

• Novelists Amanda Smyth (Black Rock), Aifric Campbell (The Semantics Of Murder, The Loss Adjustor) and Samantha Harvey (The Wilderness) talk about their writing experiences.

• Writer, Presenter and Broadcaster Stuart Maconie talks about his Adventures on the High Teas and that elusive ‘middle England’.

• Poet Jo Bell and Novelist Jenn Ashworth come together in Too Much Information, ‘wise wicked and witty words from two lively writers’.

 More detailed information on writers and events is available on our website.

Tickets are for the whole day and entitle you to a place at each event.

Day Tickets: £29, £25, £19 (Concessions £26, £22, £16)To Book call 0121 303 2323 or visit this page.