Cambridge Winter Wordfest
Cambridge Winter Wordfest, the seasonal sister of the spring event Cambridge Wordfest held in April.
The programmes cover all genres and offer a variety of events for the entire family .
Cambridge Wordfest was conceived and launched in 2003 by Cathy Moore with support from Cambridgeshire County Council and a small but dedicated band of friends and volunteers.
When? November
Where? The Cambridge Union ADC Theatre
Who? 2012 TBA
Festival Website: www.cambridgewordfest.co.uk
Social Media? Facebook - Twitter - Flickr
In 2011- Claire Tomalin with her major new biography of Charles Dickens published for the 200th anniversary of his birth; Ali Smith returns with her inventive and moving new novel There but for the; Peter Popham joins us to talk about his vividly written portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, the international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression; and Diana Athill discusses her life and work and her latest publication Instead of a Book.
2010 Festival
In 2010 - Creator of Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin (left), with a new Tale set in Barbery Lane, San Francisco. Armistead is in� the UK for the first time in four years to promote his latest novel Mary Ann in Autumn.
Jeanette Winterson in this 25th Anniversary year of the publication of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Award-winning biographer Hilary Spurling on the Nobel prize-winning novelist and author of The Good Earth,Pearl Buck.
Intense and acclaimed actor, director, writer and playwright, Steven Berkoff will be discussing his remarkable memoir, Diary of a Juvenile Delinquent.
Best-selling author Kate Mosse (Labyrinth, Sepulchre) pays her first visit to Cambridge Wordfest to talk about her latest novel Winter Ghosts, a haunting ghost story set in France in 1928.
�Journalist, best-selling novelist and Cambridge resident Allison Pearson will discuss her much awaited second novel I Think I Love You. Allison will be in conversation with Natasha Walter about adolescent love, David Cassidy and teenage girls.
A reading by the five shortlisted authors for the BBC National Short Story Award. The award which is celebrating its 5th year is due to be announced the day after the readings.
