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Authors including journalist and news anchor Clive Myrie, poet and novelist Blake Morrison and journalist and biographer Justine Picardie have been named among the line-up for this year’s Sevenoaks Literary Festival.
The festival will take place between 22nd September and 2nd October and, in a departure from previous years, the majority of events are clustered around the two weekends that bookend the festival.
Picardie will be interviewed by journalist Marianne Jones about her biography of Coco Chanel (HarperCollins); Tracy Borman will speak on her mother-and-daughter story, Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth (Hodder & Stoughton); and Otto English will discuss his book Fake Heroes (Welbeck).
Also in attendance will be former cricket captain Mike Brearley in discussion about his memoir Turning Over the Pebbles (Constable), Blake Morrison will discuss Two Sisters (The Borough Press), Anna Murphy, fashion director of the Times will discuss Destination Fabulous (Mitchell Beazley) and Clive Myrie will talk about his memoir Everything is Everything (Hodder & Stoughton).
The award-winning independent Sevenoaks Bookshop, which co-founded the festival in 2001, will be the book retailer at all events and is creating a window display featuring the festival’s brochure cover artwork by local artist, Melvyn Evans.
For the second time, the festival is being carried out in association with retirement living residence, Wildernesse House. They will also be hosting two events in their library: a discussion on the world of true and fictional crime with Kate Morgan and Simon Toyne on 24th September and a celebration of Virago at 50 with Linda Grant and Lennie Goodings on 1st October.
Festival chair Alison Starling commented: “The Sevenoaks Literary Festival prides itself on being very much a community event, run entirely by volunteers, held at venues through the town, with the valued support of local businesses, schools and the town council. We hope that the combination of more weekend events and a hugely engaging and varied line-up of authors will make for a particularly strong festival in our 22nd year.”