| Date |
Time |
Event |
Description |
Venue |
Ticket |
| Friday 27th November 2009 |
TBA |
Launch of the Festival |
Launch of the Festival - for Friends of the Festival | Country Bookshop |
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| Saturday 28th November 2009 |
11 am |
Philip Algar
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Philip Algar will be talking about his latest book 'Goodbye Old Chap' the true story of Stanley Algar, (1899 - 1992), a captain on an oil tanker in the Merchant Navy, and a Prisoner of War for several years. | Country Bookshop |
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| Saturday 28th November 2009 |
6.30 pm |
Trevor Snow
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Trevor Snow will be talking about his latest book, 'The Best of France' - 8 self-guided tours. | Country Bookshop |
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| Sunday 29th November 2009 |
6.30 pm |
Andrea Finney
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Andrea Finney will be talking about her book '344 - A Story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster'. This was the third largest mining disaster in British history. | Country Bookshop |
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| Monday 30th November 2009 |
6.30 pm |
Cynthia Ramsden
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'Garden Tales' tells the stories of the people who have created, work in, and visit the beautiful garden at Fanshawe Gate Hall on the edge of the Peak District National Park. | Country Bookshop |
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| Tuesday 1st December 2009 |
6.30 pm |
Chris Coley
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Chris F Coley, has written a very funny story about a group of characters at Laburnham School and especially about Bob Pike, the devious and ambitious assistant head with designs on the position of head teacher and Chris knows what he is taking about as a former headteacher himself. It is, however, a book that Ofsted may wish to ban | Country Bookshop |
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| Wednesday 2nd December 2009 |
6.30 pm |
Robert Alan-Haven
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While working as a management consultant, Robert Alan-Haven's passion for self-exploration led him to the world of the dolphins and their apparent kinship with humankind. He will be talking about his book 'Boji' the story of a bottlenose dolphin. | Country Bookshop |
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| Thursday 3rd December 2009 |
6.30 pm |
John Firth
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John Firth will be talking about his latest book 'I Hate Football'. It follows the fortunes of a group of football fans since the early 1970s. John Firth has been an ardent Sheffield Wednesday supporter for over 4 decades and has hundreds of stories to enthrall any football fan, for this could be a diary of any fan of any team, John just happened to support Sheffield Wednesday. His book will be a perfect gift for that really difficult market to buy for - men! | Country Bookshop |
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| Friday 4th December 2009 |
6.30 pm |
Jackie Toaduff
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Jackie Toaduff will be reminiscing with an illustrated talk about his life in entertainment. Jackie's story, 'Coaldust to Stardust', is the inspirational real Billy Elliot story. Jackie was born in the 1930s in County Durham, the son of a coal miner, and was a coal miner himself for 13 years but always dreamed of being a dancer. He became the British Clog Dancing Champion and has been credited with reviving clog dancing in the late 20th century and making it into a spectacle. His dancing influenced Frederick Ashton, of the Royal Ballet, to introduce clog dancing into ballet for the first time in La Fille Mal Garde. He later became part of a double act, entertaining in theatres and clubs worldwide and finally entertaining on the QE2 for twenty years. Jackie has many stories to tell from dancing with Princess Margaret to his friendships with Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn and Hollywood legends, Ginger Rogers and many more. | Country Bookshop |
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| Saturday 5th December 2009 |
11 am |
Lyndsey Bradley
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Lyndsey Bradley has collected true breastfeeding stories and poems from around the world in a book called, 'Just Call Me Daisy'. Donations from the sale of Lyndsey's book will go to Baby Milk Action, the organisation famous for tackling the multi-million company, Nestle, over it's third world baby milk policies. | Country Bookshop |
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