Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival 2012

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Sun 09 Sep 2012 - Tue 11 Sep 2012

Hampstead has been synonymous with the artsy-fartsy, literary, chattering classes for as long as I can remember. Past residents from the world of words include Kingsley and Martin Amis, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Stephen Spender, John Galsworthy, Ian Fleming, T S Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, George Orwell, D H Lawrence and John Keats . It is therefore fitting that the fourth Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival will take place this September.

Full details of all events can be found on the website, but read on for a taster of what can be expected over the three days of the festival, which includes walking tours of Hampstead, workshops, conversations between writers, chaired discussions, and talks given by authors. The diversity on offer ranges from cookery writers



to humorists



detective novelists



newspaper columnists



politicians



and Man Booker prize winner Howard Jacobson.



It may not be the acclaimed Hay Festival, but this smaller London version looks as it if will be as diverse and interesting as Hampstead itself.

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