Spoken Word

Coastival and Scarborough Literature Festival invite you to Sunday lunch... with one of the most prolific novelists of her generation, the award-winning Jane Gardam. Or perhaps an afternoon in the company of poets sounds intriguing, but if it’s intrigue you’ll be wanting to search for clues with Sophie Hannah whose latest psychological thriller, The Other Half Lives, is due to be published in February 2009. In fact, why not do them all...

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Jane Gardam

Born in North Yorkshire, Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa prize for Best Novel of the Year. Always witty and wise, Jane brings together a wonderful collection of stories, in her latest book,The People on Privilege Hill.

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Poetry Workshop

Local poets invite you to join them as they share their creative, humorous and often quirky views on life.

Free event.

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Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah is a bestselling crime writer. In 2004 she won the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Prize for her psychological suspense story The Octopus Nest, which is published in her first short story collection, The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets.

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Salmon of Knowledge

The Salmon of Knowledge will appear in Scarborough, enticing you to sit close and have your Fortune told, taking place in a seaside chalet and around Scarborough.

‘Salmon of Knowledge’ is a Live Art piece by Cath Whippey, inspired by the Salmon of Knowledge in the original Wickerman film.

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Dickens in Yorkshire

Join Brian Oxberry for morning coffee in the Sitwell Library at Woodend to hear his talk about Dickens and his visits to Malton and the North Riding of Yorkshire with extracts from Martin Chuzzlewit and the Pickwick Papers.

Free event - very limited places - booking is essential.

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