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Portsmouth BookFest Starts Friday: Tickets Now On Sale
| Published: 22nd October 2014 16:46 |
Portsmouth BookFest 2014, the city's annual celebration of reading, starts this Friday and Saturday, 24-25 October--with free copies available of this year's Big City Read, James Riordan's WWI Pompey football tale, When the guns fall silent--and runs until 9 November.
This year, Portsmouth BookFest has something for everyone, including fun, family events for kids, enlightening historical discussions and expert advice. CSI Portsmouth also returns with best-selling authors and an array of experts from Hampshire Constabulary and the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies.
Run by Portsmouth City Council and The Hayling Island Bookshop, Portsmouth BookFest involves famous authors as well as local talent. At most events there's a chance to buy books and get them signed by the author.
Some of the featured events include:
The Gruffalo tea party - Tuesday, 28 October, 11 am North End; 2pm Cosham; 4:30pm Southsea, tickets: £2 child, adults free. The star of children's books The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child visits North End, Cosham and Southsea libraries. Kids can hear Gruffalo stories, eat Gruffalo cupcakes and meet the Gruffalo himself at a fun tea party. Tickets are only available from the venues.Tuesday 28th October
Big City Read - Saturday, 25 October, 12noon-1pm, Menuhin Theatre, Portsmouth Central Library. FREE admission and FREE books. This year's Big City Read provides 2000 free copies of James Riordan's When the guns fall silent, to celebrate the start of BookFest. This is a heart-rending tale of two aspiring Pompey footballers who are handed their first team debuts after several members of the first team leave to join the army at the start of the First World War. Shortly afterwards they too join-up and are soon experiencing the brutality of life in the trenches. Free copies will be available in all libraries to pick up and keep from today from this Friday, 24 October.
Day of the Dead II : Hello Darkness! With the Portsmouth Writers' Hub - Friday, 31 October, 7.15pm, Square Tower, tickets: £4. Macabre. Poignant. Gut-wrenching. Pungent. Tales and songs performed by the writers themselves. Alongside the talented authors who created last year's sell-out Day of the Dead event, Portsmouth Writers' Hub brings you fresh voices to confront the darkness.
Portsmouth First Fiction - Saturday, 1 November, 12noon-4pm, FREE but please book a ticket. Find out who Portsmouth library readers voted as their favourite first-time author from among these titles, at the Portsmouth First Fiction Award 2014: Pigs Foot by Carlos Acosta; Ghost Moth by Michele Forbes; Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach; The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. These books are available in all libraries and to reading groups so that everyone can read and decide. Vote at your local branch or at the award event.
City Gardening with Martyn Cox - Saturday, 1 November, 7pm, Milton Village Hall, tickets: £5. A prolific garden writer and author, Martyn Cox writes a weekly column for The Mail on Sunday and monthly for Saga Magazine, saga.co.uk and Grow it! His work regularly features in BBC Gardeners' World, The English Garden, Grand Designs and Sainsbury's Magazine. He has written and co-authored many books on the subject including Gardener's World First Time Veg Grower, Big Gardens in Small Spaces and DK's Wildlife Garden.
Sex, love and violence in the Middle Ages - Friday, 7 November, Menuhin Theatre, Portsmouth Central Library, 7pm, tickets: £7. With Michael Jecks, James Burge and Angus Donald. It's still the same old story ... or is it? Two novelists and a writer of factual books have a panel discussion about these timeless aspects of life as they were experienced 900 years ago. What can we really know about the lives of people in the past? What messages have they left for us about their own intimate secrets? How does a novelist go about imagining the private life of a medieval character?
For the full Portsmouth BookFest programme and more information, go to www.portsmouthbookfest.co.uk
For tickets, please visit the box office online on EventBrite or call them on 02392 688 037. Tickets can also be reserved and paid for in all Portsmouth Libraries, or you can opt to have your tickets emailed, collected from your chosen library, posted to an address or collected at the door.
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