Calendar: West Midlands

'Chapter and Verse' Literature Festival, Shropshire

7-13 June 2010

Following on from a successful festival in 2009, Shropshire Libraries are currently organising the second 'Chapter and Verse' literature festival, to take place in June 2010. We are looking for authors to take part in reader events at a variety of venues. Average audience size expected to be 30+, but larger venues are also being arranged for 100+.

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Anna Lawrence Pietroni on Ruby's Spoon

1 - 10 February and June 2010

Anna Lawrence Pietroni is available for library events.

Ruby's Spoon is a bold and bewitching debut set in the industrial Black Country of the 1930s. Anna Lawrence Pietroni's fiercely charismatic heroine blazes the arrival of a mesmerising new literary talent.

For more information, see: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0701184361

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Black Country Big Book Fortnight

Big Book Fortnight aims to raise the profile of libraries, books, reading and storytelling, and to promote reading as an experience, by presenting a Book Festival through partnership between the four Black Country library authorities (Sandwell, Dudley, Wolverhampton and Walsall). We are currently planning the event for 2010 and are looking for authors who are promoting their books during this period.

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Martin Edwards - The Lake District Mysteries

Martin Edwards, author of three previous novels in The Lake District Mysteries series (The Coffin Trail, The Cipher Garden, The Arsenic Labyrinth and coming Feb 2010 The Serpent Pool) is available for library events within reasonable travelling distance of mid Cheshire.

Martin's Lake District novels centre around historian Daniel Kind, newly moved to the area, and DCI Hannah Scarlett who heads up the Cold Case Review team.

As well as speaking to groups of varying sizes about his books, Martin is happy to talk on the following topics: forensics; true crime cases; detective fiction and its history and Agatha Christie. He has also run popular interactive Victorian murder mystery events.

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Martin Bell - A Very British Revolution

Oct 2009 - May 2010

I'm organising a book tour across the country for Martin Bell's new book - in October, November and December, as well as Spring 2010. For more information, click on continue reading.

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