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Author Name: John Armstrong

Event Name: John Armstrong at the Bristol

Date/Time: June 29, 2009, 18.15

Venue: Arup Lecture Theatre, 63 St Thomas Street

City and Postcode: Bristol, BS1 6JZ

Description: Author talk

Price: This event is free of charge, but must be booked in advance.

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Author Name: Ali Sethi

Event Name: Newham Bookshop at Wanstead Library

Date/Time: June 29, 2009, 19.00

Venue: Wanstead Library, Spratt Hall Road

City and Postcode: London, E11 2RQ

Description: The Newham Bookshop presents Kamila Shamsie, reading from her Orange short-listed novel author Burnt Shodows in conversation with debut Pakistani novelist Ali Sethi, author of The Wish Maker.

Price: £5, available from Newham Bookshop or Wanstead Library on 020 8708 7400

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Author Name: Roger McGough

Event Name: Roger McGough at Barnes Bookshop

Date/Time: June 30, 2009, 18.30

Venue: Barnes Bookshop 60 Church Road

City and Postcode: London, SE1 8XX

Description: LOCAL AUTHOR ROGER McGOUGH Will be at Barnes Bookshop to celebrate the publication of his new collection of poetry, THAT AWKWARD AGE .Join us to hear Roger reading from his new book.

Price: Free

Author Name: Cathy Cassidy

Event Name: Cathy Cassidy at Waterstone's Galleries, Bristol

Date/Time: June 30th, 2009, 16.30

Venue: Waterstone's, 11a Union Galleries, Union Street, Broadmead

City and Postcode: Bristol

Description: Meet Cathy Cassidy, who will be signing copies of her brand new book Angel Cake.

Price: Free event

Event contact information: For further information, please call Waterstone's on 0117 925 2274

Author Name: Fareed Zakaria

Event Name: The Post-American World and the Rise of the Rest

Date/Time: June 30, 2009, 18.30

Venue: London School of Economics, Old Theatre, Old Building

City and Postcode: London, WC2A 3LJ

Description: In this lecture, Fareed Zakaria will expound on The Post-American World; a world in which the United States no longer dominates the global economy, orchestrates geopolitics or overwhelms cultures. He will explain how ‘the rise of the rest’ – the growth of countries, like China, India, Brazil, Russia and many others – is the great story of our time. Fareed Zakaria is editor of Newsweek International, host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria: GPS, and author of The Post-American World and the best selling The Future of Freedom.

Price: Free

Event URL: events@lse.ac.uk

Event contact information: 020 7955 6043

Author Name: Keith Lowe

Event Name: Barking library

Date/Time: July 1, 2009, 14.00

Venue: Barking library, Town Square

City and Postcode: Barking, IG11 7NB

Description: World War Two Event. Authors Roger Moorhouse, Keith Lowe & Justin Kerr-Smiley talk about their latest books and why WWII still fascinates

Price: Free

Author Name: Martin Jacques

Event Name: When China Rules the World

Date/Time: July 1, 2009, 17.30

Venue: LSE, Houghton Street

City and Postcode: London, WC2A 2AE

Description: LSE Summer School "Executive"

Price: Free

Author Name: John Gray

Event Name: Religion and the Market: are they in conflict?

Date/Time: July 1, 2009, 18.30

Venue: London School of Economics, Old Theatre, Old Building

City and Postcode: London, WC2A 3LJ

Description: SPEAKER: John Micklethwait DISCUSSANT: Professor John Gray CHAIR: Dr Simon Glendinning. The global revival of religion has been predominantly fuelled by the creation of a religious free market defined by entrepreneurship, choice and personal revelation. So can religion and the market sit together and what can economics teach us about religion? John Gray is emeritus professor of European thought at LSE and author of Gray’s Anatomy. John Micklethwait is editor of The Economist and co-author of God is Back.

Price: Tickets are free

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Author Name: Antony Beevor

Event Name: Waterstone's Deansgate: Antony Beevor Talk

Date/Time: July 7, 2009, 18.30

Venue: Waterstone's, 91-93 Deansgate

City and Postcode: Manchester, M3 2BW

Description: We are delighted to welcome one of our most popular writers of non-fiction to Deansgate, where he will be talking about and signing his new book about D-Day. Please note the earlier start time.

Price: Tickets £3, redeemable against one copy of the promoted book on the night

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Author Name: John Armstrong

Event Name: What Is Culture Good For?

Date/Time: July 1, 2009, 19.00

Venue: The School of Life, 70 Marchmont Street

City and Postcode: London, WC1N 1AB

Description: High culture often seems tied up with obligation: we are generally told that filling our spare time with cultural pursuits is “good for us”, but little is done to explain exactly why. Time spent in a museum or watching a film may prove a pleasant way to pass an hour, but it is also likely to bore, perplex or annoy. So how can culture justify the time, effort and money that is poured into it? Philosopher and author, John Armstrong, argues that it is because culture is crucial for the survival for humanity. Just as many of us will have found consolation in a song whose lyric seems written for us, or returned again and again to the same film or book because a hero or heroine seems to suffer in the way we do, he believes culture is the only thing that can get humanity through today’s troubled times. John Armstrong is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Director for the Center for Public Philosophy at Monash University. He is author of The Intimate Philosophy of Art and The Conditions of Love. This event marks the publication of his new book In Search of Civilization.

Price: £10

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Author Name: Hilary Spurling, Mark Bostridge, Penelope Lively, Lynn Barber

Event Name: Ways With Words

Date/Time: July 2, 2009, 19.30

Venue: Dartington Hall, Totnes

City and Postcode: Devon

Description: Ways With Words is a vibrant and joyful 10-day festival, a chance for those who read books to meet those who write them. The setting is glorious, the atmosphere is invigorating. People come together in spectacular surroundings to share the pleasure and power of language and ideas. The warmth and energy of this lively gathering make it a memorable occasion.

Price: £8

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Author Name: Adrian Desmond, James Moore

Event Name: British Society for the History of Science Plenary Lecture

Date/Time: July 2, 2009

Venue: Stamford Hall, Leciester University

City and Postcode: Leciester

Description: Author talk

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Author Name: Cathy Cassidy

Event Name: Cathy Cassidy at Borders, Cambridge

Date/Time: July 2, 2009, 16.00

Venue: Borders, 12-13 Market Street

City and Postcode: Cambridge

Description: Meet Cathy Cassidy, who will be signing copies of her brand new book Angel Cake.

Price: Free event

Event contact information: For further information, please call Borders on 01223 306 188

Author Name: Stephen Green

Event Name: LSE Director’s Dialogue with Stephen Green

Date/Time: July 2 2009, 18.45

Venue: London School of Economics, Old Theatre, Old Building

City and Postcode: London, WC2A 3LJ

Description: This event marks the launch of Stephen Green’s book Good With Money. Howard Davies is director of LSE. Stephen Green is currently chairman of HSBC, following his time as CEO. He is chairman of the British Banker’s Association, chair of the prime minister’s Business Council for Britain and an ordained priest of the Church of England since 1988.

Price: Ticket from 10am on Wednesday 24 June

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Event contact information: 0207 955 6100

Author Name: Martin Jacques

Event Name: When China Rules the World

Date/Time: July 2, 2009, 19.00

Venue: Waterstone's Hampstead, 68-69 Hampstead High Street

City and Postcode: London, NW3 1QP

Description: Guardian columnist Martin Jacques will be here at Hampstead discussing his new book "When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World". This will followed by a question and answer session.

Price: Tickets are £3 each available in-store and redeemable against the purchase of the book on the night

Author Name: Lynn Barber

Event Name: Broadway Festival -- Lynn Barber: An Education

Date/Time: July 2, 2009

Venue: BROADWAY CINEMA, 14-18 Broad Street

City and Postcode: Nottingham, NG1 3AL

Description: An Education, the opening piece of this fascinating memoir, initially appeared in Granta and has been adapted for film by Nick Hornby for an autumn cinema release. Lynn Barber will follow her reading with Q&A hosted by Leslie Felperin, Film critic for Variety, and a book signing.

Price: £5 full / £4 concs & members

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Author Name: Arundhati Roy

Event Name: London Literature Festival: Arundhati Roy

Date/Time: July 2, 2009, 19.30

Venue: Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road

City and Postcode: London, SE1 8XX

Description: Arundhati Roy headlines the London Literature Festival, in this major event addressing the subject of democracy. Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things in 1997.

Price: £12

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Author Name: Jonathan Bate

Event Name: Shakespeare's Soul: Jonathan Bate

Date/Time: July 3 2009, 18.00

Venue: Hay Festival site, Dairy Meadows, Brecon Road

City and Postcode: Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5PJ

Description: National Theatre Platform debate featuring Jonathan Bate discussing his book Soul of the Age

Price: Events individually priced

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Author Name: Roger McGough

Event Name: Ledbury Poetry Festival

Date/Time: July 3, 2009

Venue: Ledbury Poetry Festival, Church Street, Ledbury

City and Postcode: Herefordshire, HR8 1DH

Description: Roger McGough will be doing 2 exclusive performances at Ledbury Poetry Festival. 6.00pm -7.00pm: Roger McGough launches the Festival with a new collection and an evening of poems to amaze & delight! Slapstick: 11.00am-12.00 noon. Roger McGough showcases his new collection of slapstick verses - for all the family

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Author Name: Cathy Cassidy

Event Name: Cathy Cassidy book signing

Date/Time: July 8, 2009. 13.00

Venue: Waterstone's, 203/206 Piccadilly

City and Postcode: London, SW1Y 6WW

Description: Cathy Cassidy will be signing copies of her brand new book Angel Cake as well as officially launching National Best Friends Day with activities and scrumptious surprises!

Price: FREE

Event contact information: 01423 562303

Author Name: Marina Lewycka

Event Name: Connecting Conversations: Novelist Marina Lewycka in conversation with Geraldine Shipton.

Date/Time: July 5, 2009

Venue: Archway Methodist Church, Archway Close

City and Postcode: London, N19 3TD

Description: Novelist Marina Lewycka talks to psychoanalyst Geraldine Shipton about her writing, exploring the themes of ageing, loneliness and the crossing of cultures in her novels, and why she chooses to write comedy.

Price: £12, £8 concessions, £10 Friends of the Freud Museum

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Author Name: Ross Kemp

Event Name: Ross Kemp book signing

Date/Time: July 6, 2009, 13.00

Venue: WHSmith, 53-55 Argyle Street, City Centre

City and Postcode: Glasgow, G2 8AH

Description: Ross Kemp will be signing copies of 'On Afghanistan'

Price: Free

Author Name: Ross Kemp

Event Name: Ross Kemp book signing

Date/Time: July 6, 2009, 17.00

Venue: Waterstones, East Kilbride, 38a The Plaza

City and Postcode: East Kilbride, G74 1LW

Description: Ross Kemp will be signing copies of 'On Afghanistan'

Price: Free

Author Name: Adrian Desmond, James Moore

Event Name: Darwin, Darwinism and Eugenics

Date/Time: July 7, 2009

Venue: University of Cambridge University

City and Postcode: Cambridge

Description: Author talk

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Author Name: Ross Kemp

Event Name: Ross Kemp book signing

Date/Time: July 7, 2009, 13.00

Venue: Waterstones, Emerson Chambers, Blackett Street

City and Postcode: Newcastle, NE1 7JF

Description: Ross Kemp will be signing copies of 'On Afghanistan'

Price: Free

Author Name: Anna Minton

Event Name: Anna Minton at Barnes Bookshop

Date/Time: July 7, 2009, 18.30

Venue: Barnes Bookshop, 60 Church Rd

City and Postcode: London, SW13 0DQ

Description: A celebration of the publication of Anna Minton's book Ground Control

Price: Free

Author Name: Ross Kemp

Event Name: Ross Kemp book signing

Date/Time: July 8, 2009, 13.30

Venue: Waterstones, 12 College Lane

City and Postcode: Liverpool, L1 3DL

Description: Ross Kemp will be signing copies of 'On Afghanistan'

Price: Free

Author Name: Cathy Cassidy

Event Name: Cathy Cassidy at Huddersfield Children's Bookshop

Date/Time: July 8, 2009, 16.00

Venue: Huddersfield Children's Bookshop, 37-39 Lidget Street

City and Postcode: Huddersfield

Description: Meet Cathy Cassidy, who will be signing copies of her brand new book Angel Cake.

Price: Free event

Event contact information: For further information, please call the Huddersfield Children's Bookshop on 01484 658 013

Author Name: Ross Kemp

Event Name: Ross Kemp book signing

Date/Time: July 8, 2009, 17.00

Venue: WHSmith, Meadowhall, 45 High Street Meadowhall Centre

City and Postcode: Sheffield, S9 1EN

Description: Ross Kemp will be signing copies of 'On Afghanistan'

Price: Free

Author Name: Meg Rosoff

Event Name: Meg Rosoff at the New Angle Prize ‘Shortlist Showcase’

Date/Time: July 8, 2009. 19.30

Venue: Ipswich Institute, Reading Room & Library, 15 Tavern Street

City and Postcode: Ipswich IP1 3AA

Description: Meg Rosoff will join fellow shortlisted authors for an event showcasing the shortlist of the New Angle Prize for Literature.

Price: FREE and unticketed

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Author Name: Roger Deakin

Event Name: New Angle- Shortlist Showcase

Date/Time: July 8, 2009, 19.30

Venue: The Ipswich Institute Reading Room, 15 Tavern Street

City and Postcode: Ipswich, IP1 3AA

Description: Brian Morron, chairman of the Suffolk Book League, hosts the evening and introduces the shortlist, providing a showcase for the books and their authors. Join us in the elegant reading room and library of the Institute for a glass of wine and enjoy some fascinating conversation and discussion together with an eclectic mix of readings from the shortlisted authors.

Price: Free

Author Name: Cathy Cassidy

Event Name: Cathy Cassidy at Lindley Library

Date/Time: July 8, 2009, 20.00

Venue: Lindley Library, Centre Lidget Street, Lindley

City and Postcode: Huddersfield

Description: Come and hear Cathy talk about her brand new book Angel Cake at Lindley Library.

Price: FREE EVENT BUT TICKETS NEED TO BE BOOKED ON 01484 658 013

Event contact information: For tickets and further information, please call 01484 658 013

Author Name: Adrian Desmond, James Moore

Event Name: Darwin Festival 2009

Date/Time: June 8, 2009, 18.00

Venue: Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street

City and Postcode: Cambridge, CB2 1TY

Description: DARWIN'S SACRED CAUSE: Race Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins revolutionizes our understanding of Darwin's path to human evolution. New insights from fresh sources have driven Darwin scholars Desmond and Moore to re-thing the basis of Darwin's theories, providing a completely new explanation of how Darwin came to his shattering views on human origins.

Price: See website

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Author Name: Ross Kemp

Event Name: Ross Kemp book signing

Date/Time: July 9, 2009, 13.00

Venue: Asda, Derby Road

City and Postcode: Spondon, DE21 7LW

Description: Ross Kemp will be signing copies of 'On Afghanistan'

Price: Free

Author Name: Roger McGough

Event Name: West Cork Literary Festival

Date/Time: July 9, 2009, 20.30

Venue: West Cork Literary Festival, County Arts Office, County Hall

City and Postcode: Ireland (Cork)

Description: Two events at West Cork Literary Festival 8.30pm An Evening with Roger McGough Miracle birth of a new collection and an evening of poems to amaze & delight! 9.30am Morning Seminar / Maritime Hotel - €20 Creative Writing / Roger McGough

Price: 15 Euro for evening event, 20 Euro for seminar

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Author Name: Cathy Cassidy

Event Name: Cathy Cassidy at Waterstone's, Blackpool

Date/Time: July 10, 2009, 16.30

Venue: Waterstone's, Unit 4, Tower Shopping Centre, Bank Hey Street

City and Postcode: Blackpool

Description: Meet Cathy Cassidy, who will be signing copies of her brand new book Angel Cake.

Price: FREE

Event contact information: For further information, please call Waterstone's on 01253 296136

Author Name: Cathy Cassidy

Event Name: Cathy Cassidy at Borders, Preston

Date/Time: July 11, 2009, 11.00

Venue: Borders, Deepdale Retail Park, Blackpool Road

City and Postcode: Preston

Description: Meet Cathy Cassidy, who will be signing copies of her brand new book Angel Cake.

Price: FREE

Event contact information: For further information, please call Borders on 01772 703 856

Author Name: Cathy Cassidy

Event Name: Waterstone’s Liverpool One

Date/Time: July 11, 2009, 15.00

Venue: Waterstone’s Liverpool One, 12 College Lane

City and Postcode: Liverpool, L1 3DL

Description: Cathy will be signing copies of her brand new book Angel Cake

Price: Free event

Event contact information: 0151 709 9820

Author Name: Marina Lewycka

Event Name: London Literature Festival: Marina Lewycka

Date/Time: July 11, 2009, 13.00

Venue: Southbank Centre, Level 5 Function Room, Belvedere Road

City and Postcode: London, SE1 8XX

Description: Marina Lewycka and Quaisra Sharaz read from their latest work, exploring contemporary urban life and the personal histories of immigration and place that make up human character. In Lewycka's novel, We Are All Made of Glue, a chance meeting brings Georgie Sinclair and Mrs Shapiro together. When Mrs Shapiro falls ill, Georgie is named as her next of kin, and she begins to uncover the secrets of the eccentric Jewish emigre's past. She shares the event with Quaisra Sharaz .

Price: £7

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Author Name: Helon Habila

Event Name: London Literature Festival: Helon Habila

Date/Time: July 11, 2009, 19.00

Venue: Southbank Centre, Blue Room, Spirit Level, Belvedere Road

City and Postcode: London, SE1 8XX

Description: Helon Habila reads from his work and from writers who have inspired him while responding to questions from the audience. He is in conversation with Cameron Duodu, author of The Gab Boys and founder editor of the Daily Graphic in Ghana. The event guides the audience through the range of inspirations that underpin his acclaimed novels Waiting for an Angel and Measuring Time. The event is introduced by Nii Ayikwei Parkes. The African Heritage Series features conversations between leading and emerging African writers discussing music, writing and community life.

Price: £7

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Author Name: James Lovelock

Event Name: Prophet Of Gaia

Date/Time: July 13, 2009, 14.00

Venue: Great Hall, Dartington, Dartington Hall, Totnes

City and Postcode: South Devon, TQ9 6EL

Description: As he approaches his 90th birthday the iconic scientist and radical free thinker, James Lovelock, known as the father of Gaia, speaks to his biographer, John Gribbin, about the Earth’s crisis and the curiosity and conviction that has driven his life’s work.

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Author Name: Martin Jacques

Event Name: When China Rules the World

Date/Time: July 13, 2009, 17.00

Venue: LSE, Houghton Street

City and Postcode: London, WC2A 2AE

Description: LSE Summer School

Price: Free

Author Name: Chris Patten

Event Name: Winchester Festival

Date/Time: July 13, 2009, 18.00

Venue: Guidhall Broadway, High Street, Hants

City and Postcode: Winchester SO23 9GH

Description: In Conversation with John Miller. Chris Patten makes a welcome and timely return to the Festival to discuss his new book What Next?

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Author Name: Roger McGough

Event Name: Marlborough College Summer School

Date/Time: July 14, 2009, 20.00

Venue: Marlborough College Summer School, Marlborough College

City and Postcode: Wiltshire, SN8 1PA

Description: Roger McGough will be reading from his new collection, That Awkward Age, at Marlborough College Summer School

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Author Name: Patrick Neate

Event Name: Patrick Neate at Mr B's in Bath

Date/Time: July 16, 2009, 19.00

Venue: Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, 14/15 John St

City and Postcode: Bath, BA1 2JL

Description: Patrick Neate, Author of the bestselling and Whitbread Prize winning Twelve Bar Blues comes to Mr B's to read from and tells us about his new novel Jerusalem. Set both in present day and immediately post-Boer war Britain, Jerusalem is a culturally relevant novel exploring the idea of Englishness with a wonderful blend of humour and warmth.

Price: Tickets just £4 in advance from Mr B's

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Author Name: Penelope Lively

Event Name: Ways With Words

Date/Time: July 18, 2009, 10.45

Venue: Dartington Hall, Totnes

City and Postcode: Devon

Description: Penelope Lively and Jane Gardam- ""A Lifetime Writing""Two of our finest, long-standing writers talk together about the inspiration and motivation for their work. In her latest novel, ‘Family Album’, Penelope Lively delves into the mystery of happy family life. Jane Gardam’s novel, ‘Showing The Flag’, has just been re-published. Both writers have written for children, fiction and nonfiction, and both show an extraordinary understanding of what makes us human.

Price: £8.00

Author Name: Kevin Brooks

Event Name: Spinebreakers LIVE with author Kevin Brooks

Date/Time: July 21, 2009, 10.30 til 16.30

Venue: Glasgow Kings Theatre, 153-157 Sauchiehall Street

City and Postcode: Leeds, LS2 3AD

Description: Enjoy a day run by the teens behind Penguin’s online teen book community spinebreakers.co.uk. Meet author Kevin Brooks, choose a workshop (film and photography, creative writing or graphic novel-making), hear hot new band Lion Club play live. 13-18 year olds ONLY.

Price: £5.00

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Event contact information: 0113 224 3801

Author Name: Dan Waddell

Event Name: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

Date/Time: July 24, 2009, 12.00

Venue: The Crown Hotel, Raglan House, Raglan Street

City and Postcode: Harrogate, HG1 1LE

Description: Guided by international best-seller and Festival favourite Val McDErmid, five of the hottest new talents in crime fictiion - Duncan Campbell, David Levien, Shona MacLean, Dan Waddell and Lee Weeks - discuss their work, motivation, inspirations and aspiration. An essential insight into the names to look out for in coming years...

Price: Prices vary

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Author Name: Raymond Chandler

Event Name: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

Date/Time: July 24, 2009, 18.30

Venue: The Old Crown, Raglan House, Raglan Street

City and Postcode: Harrogate, HG1 1LE

Description: An informal get together to discuss 'the Festivals Big Read Book', Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.

Price: Prices vary

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Author Name: Caro Ramsay

Event Name: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

Date/Time: July 25, 2009, 17.00

Venue: The Old Crown, Raglan House, Raglan Street

City and Postcode: Harrogate, HG1 1LE

Description: X-Rated: Sex, Drugs and Ultra-Violence. Four of the edgiest authors working in the genre today - Megan Abbott, Denise Mina, Caro Ramsay and Zoe Sharp - discusshow to handle everything from Cannibalism to zoo-ophilia. All this and the sheer joy of creating mayhem: not for the faint hearted. Chaired by the scariest Aberdonian of them all, Stuart MacBride.

Price: Prices vary

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Author Name: Andrew Taylor

Event Name: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

Date/Time: July 25, 2009, 17.00

Venue: The Crown Hotel, Raglan House, Raglan Street

City and Postcode: Harrogate, HG1 1LE

Description: Nurserey Crimes: Andrew Taylor chairs an event with Jasper Fforde, Christopher Fowler, Suzette A Hill and Yrsa Sigurdardottir as they discuss their earliest inspirations and models. They recall how their first steps in reading taught them to appreciate, and, later, to emulate, a jolly good mystery.

Price: Prices vary

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Author Name: Meg Rosoff

Event Name: Spinebreakers LIVE with author Meg Rosoff

Date/Time: July 27, 2009, 10.30 til 4.30pm

Venue: The Custard Factory, Gibb Street

City and Postcode: Birmingham, B9 4AAX

Description: Enjoy a day run by the teens behind Penguin’s online teen book community spinebreakers.co.uk. Meet author Meg Rosoff, choose a workshop (film and photography, creative writing or graphic novel-making), hear hot new band Lion Club play live. 13-18 year olds ONLY.

Price: Tickets are £5.00. Box Office www.theticketsellers.co.uk Tel: 0844 870 0000

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Author Name: Adele Parks

Event Name: Adele Parks signing Waterstones.

Date/Time: July 27, 2009, 19.00

Venue: Waterstones, 71 High Street

City and Postcode: Guildford, GU1 3DY

Description: Adele Parks will be signing copies of 'Love Lies' at Waterstones Guildford

Price: Free

Author Name: Amartya Sen

Event Name: Bristol Festival of Ideas

Date/Time: July 29, 2009

Venue: Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road

City and Postcode: Bristol, BS8 1RJ

Description: Amartya Sen, University Professor at Harvard, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, and one of the world’s leading public intellectuals, proposes a new theory of justice, highlighting the importance of public reasoning and making explicit room for accommodating distinct points of view.

Price: This event is free of charge, but must be booked in advance

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Author Name: Claire Tomalin and Andrew Motion

Event Name: Keats Platform

Date/Time: July 29, 2009, 19.00

Venue: National Theatre, Upper Ground

City and Postcode: London, SE1 9PX

Description: Claire Tomalin and Andrew Motion will be discussing John Keats and his poems.

Price: Free

Author Name: Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper, James Lovelock, David Reynolds, Adrian Desmond, James Moore, Patrick Neate, Deyan Sudjic, Marina Lewycka, Jeremy Page, Will Self, Hilary Spurling, Lynn Barber, James Robertson, Colm Tóibín, Charles Elton, Stephen Grey, Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett, Richard P Bentall, Miri Rubin, John Gray, Colin Tudge, Tristram Stuart

Event Name: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Date/Time: August 15-31, 2009

Venue: RBS Main Theatre and/or Scottish Power Studio Theatre, 5a Charlotte Square

City and Postcode: Edinburgh, EH2 4DR

Description: An inspiring literary festival, the world's largest public celebration of the written word, right in the heart of Edinburgh: hundreds of author events, debates and workshops packed into 17 extraordinary days in August.

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Author Name: Adrian Desmond, James Moore

Event Name: Edinburgh Festival

Date/Time: August 24, 2009

Venue: Peppers Theatre, Charlotte Square Gardens

City and Postcode: Edinburgh

Description: The Use and Abuse of Darwin" Debate with Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor. Chaired by Richard Holloway.

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