Eighth literary festival rolls in to Budleigh Salterton

Â© Pic by Guy Newman. Author Hilary Mantel in her home town of Budleigh Salterton, Devon. This picture is free to use in conjunction with Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 2012. After September 2012 a picture fee will be required to publish this image, please contact pix@guynewman.co.uk / 07831379971 for further details. Â© Guy Newman

The line-up for this year’s Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival has been confirmed.

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The eighth annual event – from Thursday, September 15 to Sunday, September 18 – comprises talks, readings, workshops and conversations with authors, philosophers, mathematicians, historians and rising literary stars.

Returning to Budleigh will be poet Jackie Kay MBE and honorary president Dame Hilary Mantel DBE. New faces include historian Helen Rappaport, biographers Alexandra Harris and Juliet Nicolson, political journalists Peter Snowdon and Tom Bower and best-selling authors Mark Haddon and Deborah Moggach and Helen Dunmore.

Retired cricketer Mike Brearley OBE will also appear, as will award-winning foreign correspondent Luke Harding and barrister and former Liberty director, Shami Chakrabati.

“It’s satisfying to see another year with fantastic talent from such a broad spectrum of different interests and disciplines,” said festival chairman Malcolm Elliott. “Every year we look forward to the buzz that the festival brings and I’m sure that this year’s festival will be no exception.”

Tickets will be available from Friday, July 22. For more details and to buy tickets, visit www.budlitfest.org.uk. Tickets can also be booked in person or by phone from Budleigh TIC (01395 445275).