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Top Yorkshire authors 'booked' in for festival
Some of
Yorkshire’s top authors will be providing a thrilling chapter to a
new festival in Scarborough.
Yorkshire Book Day takes place in the
Concert Room at Scarborough Library and Information Centre on
Thursday 2 August as part of the five-day “A Festival of Yorkshire
– Scarborough”, which is being supported by Welcome to
Yorkshire.
The authors taking part - Craig Bradley,
Andy Seed, Penny Dolan, Malcolm Rose and Mike Pannett – have
between them amassed thousands of book sales and will be on hand to
sign copies of their work.
The Yorkshire Book Day follows another
hugely successful Scarborough Literature Festival which attracted
scores of people from across the country.
Welcome to Yorkshire Area Director, Janet
Deacon, said: “The popularity of the literature festival in
Scarborough proves there is a strong appetite for books and reading
in Scarborough. We have some very talented authors in Yorkshire and
I’m thrilled some of them will be appearing here as part of ‘A
Festival of Yorkshire – Scarborough’.”
Sheila Silvester, representing the Friends
of Scarborough Library which is organising the authors’ day, said:
“We’re delighted to have brought together such an eclectic mix of
Yorkshire talent which will appeal to a wide group of book-lovers.
Literature is such a massive part of Yorkshire’s cultural appeal,
it is really great to be able to celebrate that in this way.”
A Festival of Yorkshire is being
co-ordinated by Scarborough Borough Council and the Scarborough
Urban Area Forum as part of its arts culture and sport theme for
2012 in association with Welcome to Yorkshire and a number of other
partners which include The Yorkshire Society, Scarborough Museums
Trust, Scarborough Spa, Scarborough Castle, the Woodend Creative
Industries Centre, Crescent Arts, Scarborough Library and
Information Centre, the town’s Market Hall and Vaults and Yorkshire
Treasure Trails.
It was decided to stage the festival around
Yorkshire Day after Scarborough was invited by the Yorkshire
Society to host the main civic gathering when more than 100 mayors,
chairmen and other dignitaries from across the region gather
together to celebrate their pride in Yorkshire and the region’s
unique appeal.
The festival begins on 1 August – Yorkshire Day – with the
first day of a 24-day exhibition of work at the Woodend Arts and
Craft Gallery by world-famous Yorkshire artist David
Hockney.