Cheltenham

[coalescent]

I managed to exercise willpower right up until I discovered that people under 25 get half-price tickets to most events at this year's Cheltenham festival of literature. Now I just keep finding more things that I want to go to.

Saturday 9th October 19:15
Alan Garner

Sunday 10th October 11:45
Francis Wheen and Francis Spufford

Tuesday 12th October 18:00
Iain Sinclair, Michael Foot and Bryan Appleyard discuss HG Wells

Friday 15th October 16:15
Beryl Bainbridge and Paul Bailey discuss writing male and female characters.

Saturday 16th October 14:00
Michael Palin

Saturday 16th October 16:00
Greg Dyke

Saturday 16th October 19:15
India: past, present and future with Siddharth Dhanvant Shangvi, Deoborah Moggach and Ian McDonald.

...and there's plenty more. Full programme here. So ... who's interested?

Comments

Elidor

[talvalin.livejournal.com]

I remember reading that in junior school. Something about kids getting whisked off to Fairie? S'alright I guess.

Re: Elidor

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Bunch of kids go into a church and get whisked off to the magical land of Elidor. Then they come back and weird stuff happens with a ouija board and then it all ends up with them chasing a unicorn through Manchester.

It's one of those books I don't want to read again for fear that reading it as an adult will reveal it to be far worse and less magical than half-remembered fragments from when I was little.