WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH
Elizabeth Day and Rachel Joyce 4.30 – 5.30pm Guildhall £7.50 (£6.50) F10
Claudia Roden
In Home Fires (“Inspired” — Sadie Jones), Elizabeth Day creates a delicate portrait of a family torn apart by war. She talks to BBC Radio 4 playwright turned novelist Rachel Joyce, author of Booker-longlisted The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, whose latest book Perfect is an intense, beautifully-crafted portrait of intimate crisis.
4.30 – 5.30pm Guildhall £8 (£7) F9 Claudia Roden revolutionised Western attitudes to the cuisines of the Middle East and North Africa in 1968 and went on to become a celebrated and award-winning food writer and television presenter. Join her as she shares memories with Matthew Fort of an inspiring career and reflects on The Food of Italy, a book which has had a huge influence on British cooking and which will be reissued in 2014. Supported by Camille Tsu Brooke
ON TOUR
BATH ALOAD
Writers’ Surgery
Poetry with Frieda Hughes
6 – 7pm Keynsham Library Free Whatever you write, get expert one-on-one help from Bath Spa University’s Creative Writing Department. Send up to 2000 words of prose, three poems, or four minutes of script to info@bathfestivals.org.uk and book your writers’ surgery appointment. Presented by our Creative Partner
6.15 – 7.15pm Guildhall £7.50 (£6.50) F11 Accomplished visual artist, children’s author and poet, Frieda Hughes’s work ranges from her debut collection Woorooloo to her most recent, The Book of Mirrors. During this special reading, she will share some of her work, new and old, with you.
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Alastair Campbell 6.15 – 7.15pm Guildhall £7.50 (£6.50) F12 Born in Yorkshire in 1957, the son of a vet, Alastair Campbell was a newspaper editor before moving into political communications and strategy for the Labour Party. An electrifying speaker and bestselling author, his third novel My Name Is... reveals the story of a teenage alcoholic. “Stunning” — The Independent on Sunday. Sponsored by