Asia House Festival of Asian Literature
Chalfont St Giles and Jordans Literary Festival
Chipping Camden Literature Festival
Fowey Festival of Words and Music
Greenacres Writers' Literary Festival
Listowel Writers' Week, County Kerry
Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest)
Poetry-next-the-sea, Wells-next-the-Sea
Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival
Strokestown International Poetry Festival
Swindon Festival of Literature
Salisbury International Arts Festival
Surrey Heath Literary Festival
University of Aberdeen Writers' Festival
Wenlock Poetry Festival (continues)
Born in the sixties to an Indian mother and an English jazz musician father, Alison McQueen grew up in London and worked in advertising for twenty-five years before retiring to write full time. Her 2012 historical Indian epic, The Secret Children, was received to excellent reviews and has been translated into severallanguages. Her latest novel, Under The Jewelled Sky, was 
published by Orion in 2013.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
With this historic win for ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes (her first was for ‘Wolf Hall’ in 2009).
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This inaugural event for this British Overseas Territory will bring together around eighty world-class speakers who will take part in talks, discussions and debates on a variety of topics ranging from children’s books to crime writing, history and cuisine.
The event is being organised under advice from the Oxford and Woodstock Literary Festival crews.