Saturday 14th - Folkestone Literary Festival

[12.30PM]
ELIZABETH NORTON
FESTIVAL READ EVENT
QUARTERHOUSE
Anne Boleyn was the most controversial and scandalous woman ever to sit on the throne of England. From her early days at the imposing Hever Castle in Kent, to the glittering courts of Paris and London, Anne caused a stir wherever she went. We are pleased to welcome Elizabeth Norton to this year's festival to discuss not only her own work on this famous queen, but also explore Anne's relationship with her sister through our Festival Read, Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl.
£6 / £5 CONC. / £4 FRIENDS
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[2.00PM]
BRIAN KEENAN
I'LL TELL ME MA: A CHILDHOOD MEMOIR
QUARTERHOUSE
In this remarkable and equally moving act of retrieval, Brian Keenan has captured the vanished world of 1950s Belfast in all its vivid vernacular and grey, post-war austerity. This is the story of an ordinary boy growing up in Belfast after the war; an ordinary boy who would go on to become world-famous as a hostage in Beirut and author of the extraordinary testimony of imprisonment and survival that was An Evil Cradling.
£8 / £7 CONC. / £6 FRIENDS
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[3.30PM]
VITALI VITALIEV
LIFE AS A LITERARY DEVICE
QUARTERHOUSE
Alternately humorous and sad, Vitali's memoir is about writing and life from his early success as a journalist and poet in the former USSR and later Australia to his hard times in Folkestone, where he lived for a year. It encompasses his travels, his books and his friends, including Clive James and Peter Ustinov. Ultimately it is a book about survival and he compares his own recovery to that of the regeneration of Folkestone, which he brands a "survivor town".
£6 / £5 CONC. / £4 FRIENDS
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[5.00PM]
LADY ANTONIA FRASER
40th Anniversary Of MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
QUARTERHOUSE
Antonia Fraser is one of our leading historians, having written over the last forty years many highly acclaimed historical works which have all become international bestsellers. Her first major biography, which heralded the beginning of her glittering career as a historian, was of one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history, Mary Queen of Scots. Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, we are delighted to welcome Lady Antonia to the Folkestone Book Festival to celebrate this momentous milestone.
£12 / £10 CONC. / £9 FRIENDS
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[6.30PM]
GYLES BRANDRETH
SOMETHING SENSATIONAL TO READ IN THE TRAIN
QUARTERHOUSE
They say all political careers end in tears - in Gyles Brandreth's case it's tears of laughter as the author and broadcaster, former MP and government whip, opens up his "diary of lifetime" and takes us on an hilarious no-holds-barred roller-coaster ride around the corridors of power - from Buckingham Palace to the White House, from the green benches of Westminster to the green rooms of the West End.
£12 / £10 CONC. / £9 FRIENDS
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[8.00PM]
LAUGHING BOY COMEDY CLUB
With SHAPPI KHORSANDI, KEVIN McCARTHY, DANNY WARD
QUARTERHOUSE
Shappi Khorsandi, described by the Guardian as "Britain's best young female comic by any yardstick" has recently appeared on BBC1's Live at the Apollo, Friday Night with Jonathon Ross, Have I got News for You and Mock the Week. Feisty, flirty and effortlessly funny she handles every subject with a razor sharp wit, softened only by her deliciously dizzy delivery and endless charm. Shappi headlining a night of hilarious stand up comedy alongside Kevin McCarthy and Danny Ward.
£10 / £8 CONC. / £7 FRIENDS
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