Diary at a Glance

 

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Thursday 12 May 2011 - Crime Day

Friday 13 May 2011 - History Day

Saturday 14 May 2011

Sunday 15 May 2011

 

Tuesday 10 May 2011

 

 

Ladies Romance Night sponsored by Total-E-Bound

6:30pm - Arrival

7:00pm - UK Author Readings

7:30pm - Dinner  

9:00pm - Dancing Entertainment

9:30pm - Auction of Promises

Proceeds to Women’s Aid

Lincoln Hotel

Tickets: £18 incl 3-course meal

Tickets available from info@lincolnbookfestival.org

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 11 May 2011

 

 

New Writers’ Night – Six talks from six new writers

6.30 pm  

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets: £3

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Desert Island Books with Terry Waite CBE

7.00 pm  

Chapter House, Lincoln Cathedral

Tickets: £6/£4

Tickets available from Lincoln Minster Shop 01522 561664

 

 

Atilla the Stockbroker

7.30 pm

The Dog and Bone Public House

Tickets: £11/£7 (Age 16 and over)

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Ian McMillan and Tony Husband  

8.00 pm  

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets: £12.50/£10

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Thursday 12 May 2011

 

 

Crime Day – How to Get Published and Authors Stephen Booth and Sophie Hannah

10.30 am  

University of Lincoln

Tickets: £6 am session or pm session/ £10 all day / £15 incl Val McDermid event

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For all day tickets incl Val McDermind call 01522 873894

Map - Parking is available in the NPC parking outlets surrounding the University

 

Human Library - Don’t judge a book by its cover

2.00 pm

Lincoln Central Library

 

 

Lecture by Canon Dr Nicholas Bennett

3.00 pm

Wren Library, Lincoln Cathedral

Tickets: £6 from Lincoln Cathedral Library tel: 01522 561618 / 561640

 

 

Giles Milton

3.00 pm

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets: £5

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Val McDermid

6.30 pm  

EMMTEC University of Lincoln

Tickets: £10

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Hugo Vickers in Conversation

7.00 pm  

Chapter House; Lincoln Cathedral

Tickets: £6/£4

Tickets available from Lincoln Minster Shop 01522 561664

 

 

Trudi Canavan

7.00 pm  

Courtroom, Lincoln College

Tickets: £7/£5

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Sir Andrew Motion

7.30 pm  

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets: £12.50/£10

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Crime Dinner sponsored by Lindum Group

8.00 pm

Lincoln Hotel

Tickets £35

Tickets available from info@lincolnbookfestival.org

 

 

 

 

Friday 13 May 2011

 

History Day sponsored by Lincoln Record Society:

 

 

David Wiseman

10.30 am

Hardy Building, Bishop Grosseteste University College

Tickets: £5/£3

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Sue Allan   

12.30 pm  

Hardy Building, Bishop Grosseteste University College

Tickets: £5/£3

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Margaret Dickinson

2.30 pm

Hardy Building, Bishop Grosseteste University College

Tickets: £5/£3

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Peter Parker

4.30 pm

Hardy Building, Bishop Grosseteste University College

Tickets: £5/£3

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Dr Nick Barratt

7.00 pm

Hardy Building, Bishop Grosseteste University College

Tickets: £5/£3

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Book for all History Day events for £20/£10 for a combined History Day ticket

 

 

Poetry Evening with Paul Jeffcutt and Robert Powell

5:15 pm

EMMTEC, University of Lincoln

Tickets: Free entry

 

 

Ben Atkinson

6:00pm

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets: £3

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Dreamcatcher

6.00 pm

Drill Hall (Ruston Room)

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets: Free entry

 

 

Original Lincoln Ghost Walk with Margaret Green

6.30 pm  

Meet at Castle Square opposite Magna Carta Pub

Tickets: Free

 

 

Desert Island Books with the Rt Hon Norman Lord Lamont and Patrick the Lord Cormack

7.00 pm

Chapter House, Lincoln Cathedral

Tickets: £6/£4

Tickets available from Lincoln Minster Shop 01522 561664

 

 

Lark Rise to Candleford

7.30 pm  

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets:  £10/£8

 

 

Sports Dinner with Peter Baxter and Rob Bradley

7.30 pm  

Lincoln Hotel

Tickets: £15 incl 3-course meal

Tickets available from info@lincolnbookfestival.org

 

 

Brian Patten

8.00 pm  

St Nicholas on Newport

Tickets: £13/£10

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Saturday 14 May 2011

 

 

John Jarrold – Writers’ Workshop

9.00 am  

Lincoln Drill Hall (Green Room)

Tickets: £3

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Children’s Fest Day with something for all the family

10.30 – 3.30 pm

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets: Free of charge

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Lincolnshire Poets with Rob Etty, Jenny Clarkson, Paul Sutherland and Michael Blackburn

2.00 pm

Pimento Café

Tickets: Free

 

 

Kate Wilson of Nosy Crow – Children’s Writers Workshop

2.30 pm  

Lincoln Drill Hall (Ruston Room)

Tickets: £3/£2 (SCWBI Members)

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A talk on 20th century novelists E M Forster & Christopher Isherwood with Peter Parker and Richard Canning

7.00 pm  

Cathedral Centre

Tickets: £4

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The event below has unfortunately been cancelled

The Liberty Tree: A Celebration of the Life and Writings of Thomas Paine with Rob Johnson and Leon Rosselson

7.30 pm  

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets: £10/£8

 

 

 

Sunday 15 May 2011

Paul Cookson – ‘Pants on Fire’

3.00 pm

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets: £10/£5

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Colin Grant – I&I: the Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer

7.00 pm  

Lincoln Drill Hall

Tickets: £7

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The Reading Room LIVE

7.30 pm

Greaves Theatre, Bishop Grosseteste University College

Tickets: Free by contacting readingroom@sirenonline.co.uk

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