Calendar: Yorkshire

Edward Pearce on Pitt the Elder

January - February 2010

Edward Pearce is available for library events.

Pitt the Elder is a masterful portrait of arguably the most powerful minister ever to guide Britain's foreign policy and of an age which marked a new epoch in history, when the balance of power in Europe and the world was set for almost two centuries.

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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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Author and poet wanted - Knaresborough

Knaresborough Library and Customer Service Centre is looking for an author and a poet to take part in feva 2010. feva is Knaresborough's annual festival of entertainment and visual arts and will be celebrating its 10th year in 2010. See www.feva.info for more information about the festival. The library hosts events with a maximum capacity of 50 people and feva events at the library are always popular and oversubscribed. We have had very positive feedback from authors who have participated in previous years.

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Colin Challen MP - TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Sept 2009 - Feb 2010

Passionate about climate change? Colin Challen is the guy to talk to . . .

Colin is available for library events and talks to reading groups. Click on continue reading for more information.

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