Writers Talk About Writing

The Primrose Hill Community Library will be holding a literary festival on Saturday 1 October and Sunday 2 October to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our library. Ten authors will talk, read, be interviewed, air their memories and delight audiences in one-hour sessions throughout the weekend.

Saturday Talks

  • Melvyn Bragg on his memoir of a lost England – 11am
  • Brian Cox – The actor talks about his memories – 12.30pm
  • Stephen Mangan & Anita Mangan: The fart that changed the world – 2.30pm
  • Tony & Maureen Wheeler: Lonely Planet founders – 4pm

Sunday Talks

  • Deborah Moggach: Fool for Love and The Black Dress – 11am
  • Hadley Freeman: The Guardian writer on her family’s secret history – 12.30pm
  • Alan Bennett –  talks and reads from his journals – 4pm
  • Joan Bakewell –  a meditation on her life and times – 5pm

Tickets are available from www.phca.cc/bookfestival

Tickets are £5 for each event. Under 14s are free.

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