• [1PM]
  • Major GORDON CORRIGAN MBE
  • Festival Read Event
  • University Centre Folkestone
  • Former officer in the Brigade of Gurkhas and author of Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War, Major Gordon Corrigan talks about Pat Barker’s novels in relation to his
    re-evaluation of the experiences of Officers and soldiers during WWI.
  • £5 / £4
  • [2.30PM]
  • Howard Jacobson in conversation with
    PETER FLORENCE
  • The Act of Love
  • University Centre Folkestone
  • Award-winning author and regular columnist for the Independent, Howard Jacobson challenges one’s vision of love and happiness through his story about agony-addiction; but also about the nature of desire itself, the exquisiteness of loss, and the universality of the impulse.

    ‘The Act of Love is naked, haunting, unflinching. Its account of sexual obsession is frightening, painful and finally very moving. A tour de force’ Harold Pinter
  • £7 / £6
  • [4PM]
  • dorothy rowe
  • What should I believe?
  • University Centre Folkestone
  • Psychologist and writer Dorothy Rowe turns her attention to the meanings we give to the nature of death and the purpose of life, out of which develop our philosophical and religious beliefs. With religion once more a political force, this examination of the personal and the political is particularly timely.
  • £7 / £6
  • [5.30PM]
  • kate adIe
  • Into Danger: Risking Your Life For Work
  • University Centre Folkestone
  • Long fascinated by those who choose jobs that could see them put directly into danger or that could kill them, Kate Adie has seen many examples of bravery and courage. Grippingly told and with the wit, insatiable curiosity and sharp insight which are the hallmarks of her writing, Into Danger is a fearless exploration of the furthest reaches of human capability.
  • £8 / £7
  • [7PM]
  • JOHN BIRD
  • Change Your Life: 10 Steps to Get What You Want
  • Folkestone Academy
  • An honest, upfront guide for getting what you want, by The Big Issue founder John Bird.
    Drawing on his own life experiences, Change Your Life: 10 Steps to Get What You Want is about getting lost, feeling
    self-pity, feeling a failure, disliking the world and oneself, and then going beyond it.
  • £8 / £7
  • [8.30PM]
  • RUSSELL KANE presents
  • Fakespeare: The Lamentable Tragedie of Yates’s Wine Lodge
  • The Leas Club
  • Imagine if everyone in Southend-on-Sea spoke in Shakespearean language... Acclaimed comedian Russell Kane (host of BBC Radio 2’s Out to Lunch, presenter of Q Radio and British correspondent for five US) writes and stars in his debut Edinburgh play. In full ‘Fakespeare’ style this four-hander is a base blank verse tale of love and tragedie set in Southend.
  • £8 / £7