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Aye Write! Glasgow´s Book Festival
 
 
 
Date From 2010-03-05 To 2010-03-13
Location Mitchell Library

Glasgow
United-Kingdom
Web Site www.glasgowwestend.co.uk/art/ayewrite.php
 
 
Additional Information
Aye Write! Glasgow´s Book Festival celebrates the rich variety of Glaswegian writing and also brings the best of Scottish and international writers to the city. The programme includes workshops, readings and discussions and takes in a wide range of genres: poetry, prose, screen writing, fiction, crime and children´s books
 
 
 
   
 
Cheltenham Festival of Literature
 
 
 
Date From 2010-10-08 To 2010-10-17
Location
Cheltenham
United-Kingdom
Web Site www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk
 
 
Additional Information
The Cheltenham Literature Festival is to become the first of its kind to host world premieres every year. Each October will see Cheltenham become the place to hear brand new writing that’s been especially commissioned from some of the world’s best authors.
 
 
 
Telephone 01242 263494
Email boxoffice@cheltenham.gov.uk
   
 
Edinburgh International Book Festival
 
 
 
Date From 2010-08-14 To 2010-08-30
Location Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Book Festival 5a Charlotte Square Edinburgh EH2 4DR
Edinburgh
United-Kingdom
Web Site www.edbookfest.co.uk
 
 
Additional Information
The Edinburgh International Book Festival began in 1983 and is now a key event in the August Festival season, celebrated annually in Scotland´s capital city. Biennial at first, the Book Festival became a yearly celebration in 1997.
 
 
 
   
 
Hay Festival of literature
 
 
 
Date From 2010-05-26 To 2010-06-06
Location Hay
Hay Festival, The Drill Hall, 25 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye - HR3 5AD
Hay-on-Wye
United-Kingdom
Web Site www.hayfestival.com
 
 
Additional Information
for 10 days a year, 80 000 visitors converge on Hay from all over the UK, Europe and America to join in a carnival celebration.
 
 
 
   
 
Oxford Literary Festival
 
 
 
Date From 2010-03-20 To 2010-03-28
Location
Oxford
United-Kingdom
Web Site www.sundaytimes-oxfordliteraryfestival.co.uk
 
 
Additional Information
The Festival reflects the great literary traditions of The University of Oxford, and its historic Colleges, as well as the contemporary reputation of its Departments and Institutes in every field of scholarship, research and enquiry.
Novelists, biographers, historians, poets, critics, politicians, soldiers, public servants, scientists, and medics will be joined by artists, philosophers, theologians, architects, engineers, botanists, environmentalists and children's writers.
The Oxford Literary Festival is widely acclaimed for its stimulating and provocative programme and the quality and fearlessness of its debates.
 
 
 
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