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Welcome! you time!
We’re thrilled to be partnering with Moulton School & Science College and Moulton Primary this year to provide author events in school free to the pupils. With a wide range of authors, stalls, activities, and of course the wonderful EAT Cafe and awardwinning Quinn’s bookshop, there’s something for everyone to keep you entertained for the whole day!
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We’re very excited to welcome you to our fourth literary festival. It’s completely free to explore the Fitz John Hall, where you’ll get the chance to meet authors, get your books signed, visit the pop-up bookshop, stalls and more! Or head to the library for free activities at KidFest, including Professor Ham’s Science Club, storytime and authors to meet. You’ll need a ticket for any of our author events, so make sure to take a look at the timetable on page 15 to plan your day. Under 18s are free, and it’s just £5 for each author event for adults. Don’t forget to join our Giant Book Group!
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3 Contents Authors and events....................... 4-8 Kid Fest at the schools.................10-11 Kid Fest on the day.........................12-13 Young Adult panel...........................14 Plan your visit.....................................15 Tickets & FAQs.................................15
Adrian’s first book of 32 eyewitness accounts, Ghost Detective 1, was on sale in high-street shops and available across the UK. After this success Adrian wanted to take things further than simply collecting eyewitness stories, he wanted to investigate locations for himself. In each of the Ghost Detective books, from number two onward, Adrian details several investigations separated by eyewitness accounts. Now working on book nine, Adrian has no intention of stopping or slowing down on the investigation front. All his stories are unique to his books and the investigations he undertakes can last up to three years, so you know the stories are full of detail. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, the Ghost Detective series of books are a fascinating read, a glimpse into the life of a real-life Ghost Detective.
Carmela Sophia Sereno
Author Adrian Perkins lives in Northampton and has been writing since the early nineties. From an early age, his own personal experiences, and tales of ghosts and spirits fascinated him.
Adrian has always collected books on true ghost stories, but there was a problem. His collection of books highlighted the persistent repetition of well-known ghost stories. These stories began showing up in book after book. This repetition became such an annoyance Adrian decided to do something about it. In the early 2000’s he decided to contact the local BBC radio station and they invited him in. After explaining on-air his quest to find new stories to write about and publish, the radio station opened the phone lines for people to talk to him live, or leave their contact details off-air.
This move proved so successful, two years later
Authors + Events
Ghost Detective Manfield - 10.00-11.00 Cookery Nethercote - 10.00-11.30
Carmela Sophia Sereno is an accomplished Italian pasta specialist and successful cookery author. She recently released her latest book ‘Pasta Fresca’ adding to her collection of 4 other popular cookery books. Currently Carmela is writing an Italian vegetarian cookery book to add to the admired collection. Carmela teaches across the UK and runs sellout supper clubs at ‘The Italian Shop’ in Northampton.
Instagram:www.carmelas-kitchen.comcarmelaskitchen
Come along for a talk and pasta-making demonstration.
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Elise is a writer, runner and all-round outdoors lover best known for being the first woman to run self-supported around the coast of the UK, a journey of 5000 miles. She is the best-selling author of travel book Coasting (listed as one of The Times best books of 2021), an honest and humorous account of her adventure that aims to show that if Elise could run around a country, then anybody can. It’s impossible to overstate quite how unprepared she was! Elise is currently working on her next project, a guidebook of CarFree Adventures to be published next year.
Sue’s emotionally compelling, feel-good novels are released by publishing giant HarperCollins in the UK, US and Canada and by various publishers around the world. She’s also written short stories, serials, columns, writing ‘how to’ and courses and is represented by Juliet Pickering of the wonderful Blake Friedmann Literary Agency.
Angela is chairman of Northamptonshire Family History Society, a countywide society that holds monthly meetings locally and online via Zoom. Her talk is aimed at those new to family history research and will give tips on how to get started, resources available, where to find them and how to get the best from them.
Sue Moorcroft Romance Manfield - 14.00-15.00
Sue Moorcroft is a Sunday Times bestselling author and has reached #1 in the Amazon Kindle UK chart as well as top 100 in the US. She’s won the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award, Readers’ Best Romantic Novel award and the Katie Fforde Bursary.
Angela Malin History Nethercote - 14.00-15.00
Elise Downing 5 Sport Claret - 13.00-14.00
William Shaw Crime Panel Nethercote -12.30-13.30
Giant Book Group
Calling all local book clubs!
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Steve Whitmill was first published in 2021, and now has 3 poetry books. He has been on BBC Radio Northampton twice, and has been in Northampton Academy. He is in the process of publishing a teenage adventure story collection. Steve is married and lives locally.
Lesley Thomson Crime Panel Nethercote - 12.30-13.30
Writing as G. W. Shaw, Dead Rich is William Shaw’s first adventure thriller. The Sun calls him ‘a modern crime master’. Peter May has praised him as ‘a superb storyteller’, and Peter James has hailed him as ‘one of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction.’ The Times critic Marcel Berlins said: ‘William Shaw is a superb, flowing writer, both of police procedure and personal relations, and perhaps England’s most adept at using dialogue to propel his always intelligent stories.’ His detective series set in Dungeness features DI Alex Cupidi, who originally appeared as one of the characters in his 2016 novel The Birdwatcher. Before becoming a crime writer, he was the author of several non-fiction books including Westsiders, about a year spent with the young men of South Central Los Angeles, Spying In Guru Land, about time spent investigating religious cults, and A Superhero For Hire, a compilation of columns in the Observer Magazine. Lesley Thomson grew up in west London. Her first novel, A Kind of Vanishing, won the People’s Book Prize in 2010. Her second novel,The Detective’s Daughter, was a #1 bestseller and the resulting series has sold over 750,000 copies. Lesley divides her time between Sussex and Gloucestershire. She lives with her partner and her dog. Visit her website at lesleythomson.co.uk
Come along for coffee, cake and laughter, Our book this year is Summer at the French Café by Sue Moorcroft. Make sure you join us for Sue’s talk at 1pm too!
Steve Whitmill Fitz John Plus authors to meet in the Fitz John hall!
Fitz John
Steve Batchelor
Northants Authors
Jason Cobley
JM Cobley was born in Devon of Welsh parents and now lives in Warwickshire with his wife, daughter, dog and rabbit. By day, he teaches English, but also writes. The central character of his new novel A Hundred Years to Arras, published by Unbound, is based on his relative Robert Gooding Henson, who fought in Arras in 1917. He will also be signing copies of the follow-up The Mines of Arras and Other Stories. He is currently working on another historical novel set during the Tonypandy Riots of 1910.
Walking back to happiness tells some of their stories and is a tribute to them and especially their Chairman, Phil Andrews, who provided the inspiration for this book. Steve has also written one other book, published in 2006 entitled ‘I was there in ‘66’ which tells his story as a spectator at all of England’s 1966 world cup campaign, including the epic final..
Fitz John Northants Authors was started by five writers, all of whom had self-published books. Although each was very different, they shared the same problem: how to promote and sell their work. Without the backing of a traditional publisher, books could not be distributed to the wider audience they sought. They decided to try to do it together. So Northants Authors, a co-operative of authors living in Northamptonshire, was born.
Fitz John Steve Batchelor is a 73 year old local businessman with a fondness for literature and football. After a bout of depression in 2017 he discovered the many physical and social benefits of playing walking football and found he wasn’t alone as several others were in similar situations and had also found salvation through the friendship and exercise benefits of playing this wonderful new sport.
Rugby Cafe Writers
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Fitz John Rugby Café Writers: a lively gathering of writers, poets and playwrights; Around fourteen of us meet in the Thirteen Bells Café, Rugby, to talk about our work, for encouragement, advice, and to enjoy sharing our journey along that hazardous road into print. We discuss anything from tackling writer’s block to promoting sales of our books.
Whilst she always sang (and loved singing), she had never sung in public until she was 45. Since then she has taught herself how to play the guitar and played in various gigs, open mic nights and has her own album.
Shelly would love to welcome you to the Artichoke Inn in Moulton on Saturday 8th October at 8:30pm for an evening discussing songwriting, singing, musical influences and live music.
Fitz John UK epic fantasy author Ross C. Hughes is the writer of the Convent series and The Night Comes Alive, a gothic fantasy novel, as well as a collection of short stories set in the same world, available for free to anyone who signs up to his mailing list at www.rosshughes.biz.
Bestselling author / cartoonist James Parsons has inspired and entertained thousands of young people across the UK since 2005 - boosting storytelling and drawing skills, unlocking creativity, and sharing secret illustration tricks used by the professionals! Comic Club has become the UK’s leading provider of comic art workshops in schools, libraries, festivals, charities and events... and is now heading to Moulton Literary Festival to creatively inspire you with some super awesome manga and anime Japanese style cartooning skills!
Fitz John Fitness Coach (owner of Queens Park Fitness, in Northampton), Author of “Losing my Addiction”, Public Speaker, and Project Manager (by day), helping those who want to get in the best shape of their lives ... and I love it. www.drunkdadtodrydad.com
Shelly Care Songwriting workshop Saturday 8th October, The Artichoke Inn, 8.30pm James Parsons Manga Zoom workshop Sunday 9th October, Moulton Community Centre - Manfield - 11.30-12.30 FOR ALL AGES:
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Shelly’s love of music started as a child when she used to listen to her dad singing his favourite pop songs whilst cleaning his car!
Owen Jones
Ross Hughes
This year we are teaming up with both our local schools to provide KidFest author events in the weeks leading up to the main festival day. These events are completely free and will be provided in the school day for pupils.
Science College Darren Simpson Friday
Moulton School
Kid Fest At the schools
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Darren Simpson writes vivid, unruly fiction for older children and teens. He will be running a workshop based on his book Scavengers. His debut novel, Scavengers, was a Guardian Best Book of the Year, and was selected for the Summer Reading Challenge and shortlisted for the Northern Ireland Book Award. The Memory Thieves was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and was a World Book Day Summer Read. His latest book, Furthermoor, was Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Month and a Waterstones best book for teens and young adults.
Darren lives in Nottingham, where he works with the Literacy Trust to promote reading for pleasure. He loves using otherworldly settings and unconventional characters to explore bravery, self-discovery, and the endless quirks that make up our real lives. Meet authors!the
NEW school events!
Matt Oldfield Friday 29th September
Primary
Bring along your group’s best and worst books to share with others, take part in the quiz and have a piece of cake. Let us know if you’re coming! Plus authors to meet in the Fitz John Hall
Matt Oldfield is the author of the Unbelievable Football series (winner of the 2020 Children’s Sports Book of the Year) and the Johnny Ball: Football Genius series, as well as the coauthor of the bestselling Ultimate Football Heroes series. To date, his books have sold over a million copies worldwide. In association with his writing, Matt works with schools and organisations such as The National Literacy Trust and The National Football Museum to deliver football-based literacy workshops.
Moulton School & 7th October & Science College
and Moulton School
Influences on GR’s writing include Roald Dahl, Terry Pratchett and the comics writer Simon Furman.
GR is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and attends events and conferences as much as possible. He enjoys meeting other authors and artists and is pleased to count many such individuals as friends.
GR Dix Thursday 6th October Moulton Primary School
GR Dix is both a scientist-for-hire and a writer of children’s books, specialising in fun chapter books to encourage children to take up and enjoy reading for pleasure.
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GR has created the world of Brian Brackbrick and George Bum, the stars of the 6-book ‘Brian Brackbrick’ series of thrilling adventures revolving around the search for the mysterious ‘Mr Sparker’. With other works at various stages of development, GR is enthusiastic about sharing his stories with as many children as possible. He believes that chapter books are a vital, and often underestimated, part of the reading journey.
David Hale
Professor Ham's Science Club
Sunday 9th October Moulton Community Centre Get involved in a fun, interactive science workshop. Professor Ham’s Science Club runs weekly clubs for kids aged 7 to 11, in-person and online. Many of you joined Professor Ham at last year’s Moulton Literary Festival, to have a go at “magic writing” and making glow-in-the-dark slime! She is delighted to be part of this amazing festival once again this year, so why not come along and have a go at some more fun science activities with Professor Ham’s Science Club? What will you discover this time? Check out our website to discover more about our clubs, birthday parties and events: www.professorhamsscienceclub.co.uk
Lucy Noguera
Lucy Noguera, author of Swop: The Satsuma-Sized Secret, will be running activities as part of KidFest!
David Hale is a children’s author who has lived in Moulton for over 30 years. He created stories for his daughter Jenny when she was young and over the last two years started publishing these.
Meet the
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Chat to a variety of YA authors!children’sand Find us in library!the Plus storytime!activitiescrafts,and
Kid Fest On the day!
Authors
Sunday 9th October Moulton Community Centre
The first book, Dai and The Missing Baby Crocodile, is available from Pegasus Books. His second book Dai and the Arrival of Diego from Patagonia will be read to the children at the Festival.
Lucy Noguera is an ex-primary school teacher and Teacher of The Deaf. Her first children’s book Swop The Satsuma-Sized Secret is a 7+ chapter book and features sign language. Her new picture book, Herman Needs A Home, is a story with underlying themes of conservation and the effects of plastic pollution.
Philip S Davies is the author of the Destiny’s Rebel trilogy of fantasy adventure novels, suitable for ages ten plus. Enter a world of castles, kingdoms, gods, swords and sailing ships as Kat struggles with her destiny to become Queen. Philip is working on a new series, Cave of Immortality.
Jenni Robson
Northamptonshire
Children’s Book Group is a volunteer-led group who works on a local level to promote reading for pleasure and its positive impact on children’s learning and wellbeing through holding book events, author school visits, book swaps and more.
Children’s Book Group aims to get children across the county to share our passion for books.
We welcome individuals, families and schools across Northamptonshire to become members of our group. For more information and the benefits of joining, email info.northantscbg@gmail.com or visit our facebook page for more information. www.facebook.com/NorthantsChildrensBookGroup/
Northamptonshire
NCBG operates under the umbrella of the Federation of Children’s Book Groups, a charity with a 50 year history of promoting enjoyment and interest in children’s books and reading and to encourage the availability of books for children of all ages.
Northamptonshire Children's Book Group
Artist and author Jenni Robson’s colourful, rhyming picture books and stories for young readers, ages 5-8 are fresh, funny and heartfelt. Her handmade gifts and stationery feature many of the quirky characters. Living in Market Harborough, Jenni is currently working on her next book of mysterious tales and silliness. www.jennirobson.com
Philip S Davies
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Our committee members include parents, teachers, librarians and publishing industry professionals who all have a passion for children’s literature.
We’re delighted that GR Dix will be joining us on the day as well as appearing at the primary school. See page 9 for more about him!
GR Dix
Mark and Jules are creators of the multi-award-winning Future Toolbox. The Future Toolbox is loaded with life skills tools to help teens, young adults and families to get ahead in life. Their books include the popular Don’t Get Your Neck Tattooed, which is the Z to A of life skills that you don’t get from sitting exams.
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Young Adult Panel
Kate Mallinder is the author of two feel-good teen novels, her debut Summer of No Regrets and the latest, Asking for a Friend. She will be part of the Young Adult Panel. She recently completed an MA in Writing for Young People and enjoys chatting to secondary school groups about stories. She helps run a local youth group and loves reading when she gets the chance. She lives with her family near Ashby in Leicestershire and is skivvy to two cats.
Kate Mallinder Mark and Jules Kennedy
15 Tickets Under 18 years old: FREE 18 and over: £5 per author event Free events available in the Library and Fitz John Hall: KidFest activities Craft fair and food stalls Author book signings Quinns bookshop Rugby Cafe Authors Northants GiantSecond-handAuthorsbooksBookGroup How Do I Book? Tickets can be bought from the Community Connectors’ desk in the library, Monday to Friday 9-5. Alternatively, call 07484 907438 or email moultonparishcouncil.org.uk.communityconnector@ You can also buy them on the day. Contact us Email: moultonlitfest@gmail.com Instagram: @MoultonLitFest Facebook: com/MoultonLiteraryFestival/https://www.facebook. Twitter: @MoultonLitFest Plan your visit
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