11am – Meet at Quarterhouse
Pavement Pounders
Literary Walk
£6 full / £5 conc. / £4 Friends
Join David Lay and Maryanne Traylen of Pavement Pounders CIC as they lead the special ‘Dickens’ themed Book Festival guided walks again this year.
11am – Quarterhouse
The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers
£5 adult / £4 child. / £15 family*
An inter-galactic adventure for families and young children based on the popular book by Oliver Jeffers, award-winning author of How to Catch a Star and Lost and Found.
*2 Adults & 2 Children under 12 years
11am – The Brewery Tap
Adult Short Story Competiton – Judging Event
2.30pm – The Brewery Tap
Children’s Short Story Competition – Judging Event
FREE
Join us for the live judging of this year’s Short Story Competition. Our panel of judges will select the winners from each category and award prizes in front of a live audiences.
Featuring extracts from some of this year’s entries.
12pm – Googies Art Cafe
On The Road:
A travelling book swap
FREE
Swap your pre-loved books and discover new reads, over a yummy cappuccino and a piece of cake. This event is free and open to all ages; any books left at the end will be donated to Oxfam Book Shop.
1pm – The Brewery Tap
A Town Earthed presents…
Keith Parfitt – Two Years digging at Folkestone’s Roman Villa
FREE (Booking required)
Keith Parfitt of Canterbury Archaeological Trust and director of A Town Unearthed, sums up the results of the 150 day dig at the Roman Villa site on Folkestone’s East Cliff. Revealing new evidence about the villa itself, his talk covers previous settlement of the site and the importance of the area as a whole.
2.15pm – Quarterhouse Bar
Roger Protz – Real Ales of Great Britain
£8 full / £7 conc. / £6 Friends
Ticket price includes tasting samples
Leading beer writer Roger Protz will conduct a “tutored tasting” of beers, taking the audience through the styles on offer and how to appreciate the flavours of malt and hops
4pm – Quarterhouse
Tristram Hunt – The English Civil War at First Hand
£7 full / £6 conc. / £5 Friends
Tristram Hunt MP is a British politician, historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist and current Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. He joins us to discuss his latest book The English Civil War at First Hand, a history of the English Civil War from first-hand accounts.
5.45pm – Quarterhouse
Sir Max Hastings – All Hell Let Loose:
The World at War 1939-1945
£10 full / £8 conc. / £7 Friends
A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War.
Max Hastings is a prolific author and broadcast journalist. He has penned many books concerning the events of the Second World War, notably Bomber Command, Overlord, Armageddon, Nemesis and Finest Years. He has received many awards both for his writing and journalism, and was knighted in 2002.
8pm – Quarterhouse
Mitch Benn & The Distractions
Ode to Warrior Tour 2011/12
£10 full / £8 conc.
From BBC Radio 4’s Sony nominated Now Show, BBC1’s One Show and Watchdog, multi-award winner Mitch Benn and his band take to the road in a two hour show packed with new songs and old favourites.
“Essential viewing” Time Out
The Folkestone Book Festival is a Creative Foundation Project.