Guildford Book Festival
13–22 October 2011

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1. Festival Exhibition FREE event

2. WORKSHOP Emma Darwin - Getting To Grips With Historical Fiction

3. Deborah Bull - The Everyday Dancer

4. Martin Bell - For Whom The Bell Tolls

5. Storytellers Guild - Red Queen StorySLAM

6. Francine Stock - In Glorious Technicolor

7. Dr David M. Wilson - The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott

8. Readers' Day hosted by Guy Pringle

9. WORKSHOP Terrie Rintoul - The Book in You

10. Amnesty International Event

11. Writing Freedom - The English PEN Roadshow

12. Lynne Truss - The Whisper of the Muse

13. Steve Furst - 100 Worst Britons

14. We Shall Never Surrender

15. Noreen Riols - Churchill's Secret Army of the Shadows

16. Keith Jeffery - MI6 – The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949

17. Coffee with... Jack Sheffield

18. David Rose and Martin Giles - Exploring Local History

19. Helen Simonson and Ceri Radford - Life In Our Own Dear Home Counties

20. Through a Different Lens: discussing historical fiction

21. Richard Fortey - Survivors – The animals and plants that time has left behind

22. Jennifer Kloester - Georgette Heyer – Biography of a Bestseller

23. Neil Oliver - A History of Ancient Britain

24. Coffee with... Maeve Haran and Christie Dickason

25. Dan Lepard - Short and Sweet

26. WORKSHOP David Rose and Martin Giles: Times Present, Times Past

27. Elisabeth Parry - Thirty Men and a Girl

28. Hallie Rubenhold: Austen's Women

29. Maggie Ollerenshaw: Sounding Good

30. Felix Francis: Gamble

31. Johnny Ball: Ball of Confusion

32. Coffee with... Rosetta Morello, pen pal to the superstars

33. Emma Fisher - Story Station - FREE event

34. Bel Mooney - A Small Dog Saved My Life

35. Marika Cobbold, Isabel Ashdown and Suzanne Bugler - Childhood Betrayed

36. Surrey Poetry Centre: Wey Poets Open Evening

37. Robin Bayley - The Mango Orchard

38. WORKSHOP Caroline Taggart - A Path Through the Publishing Jungle

39. Festival Quiz with Peter Guttridge

40. Storytellers' Guild - Fearsome Faery Tales for Fearless Adults – The Faeries Fight Back!

41. Pam Ayres

42. WORKSHOP L.A. Larkin - Thrill and Kill

43. Taylor Downing - Spies in the Sky

44. Martin Polley - The British Olympics: Britain's Olympic Heritage 1612–2012

45. Colour in the Home

46. The Book that Changed the World: Celebrating 400 years of the Authorised King James Bible FREE event

47. Frances Wilson - How to Survive the Titanic – The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

48. Gavin Menzies - The Lost Empire of Atlantis – History's Greatest Mystery Revealed

49. Peter Bowles: Ask Me If I'm Happy

50. Coffee with... Sue Gee, Jojo Moyes and Fanny Blake

51. Sarah Raven - Wild Flowers

52. Victoria Hislop - A Love Affair with Greece

53. WORKSHOP Jo Herbert - How to Get Published - What to submit and how

54. Lisa Chaney - Chanel – An Intimate Life

55. Lucinda Lambton - Palaces for Pigs – Animal Architecture and Other Beastly Buildings

56. Girls' Night Part 1 - A Penny for Them

57. Girls' Night Part 2 - Must Have Experience!

58. WORKSHOP Lucy Daniel Raby - Creating Great Adventure Stories

59. WORKSHOP Jenifer Toksvig - The Lego Hero's Journey – A workshop on story structure

60. Celia Imrie - The Happy Hoofer

61. Nev Fountain and Sam Leith - Murder Lite

62. Aly Monroe and Laura Wilson - After the War is Over

63. N.J. Cooper and S.J Bolton - Walking the Mean Streets

64. Linda Regan, Ruth Dudley Edwards and Sheila Quigley - The Tougher Sex

65. L.A. Larkin and Kishwar Desai - Feisty Females

66. Meg Gardiner and Felix Riley - An American Accent

67. Barry Cryer - Butterfly Brain

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