Festival books latest literary champ

Organisers of an East Yorkshire literature festival may have picked another winner of a top literary prize.

Beverley Literature Festival has made something of a habit of booking past Man Booker Prize winners-in-waiting, including Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Barry and Anne Enright.

This may prove the case again this year after Carol Birch was shortlisted for her epic novel Jamrach’s Managerie.

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Festival organisers have had to move her reading back from Friday October 14 to Thursday October 6 at 8.30pm, when she will appear alongside Ellen Feldman, to avoid clashing with the awards ceremony.

Ticketholders can attend what will now be a solo event with Julie Myerson on October 14 and use the same tickets to get into the new reading on October 6.

Festival director John Wedgwood Clarke said: “It’s always wonderful news when an author you’ve admired and booked for the festival gets spotted by one of the big competitions. It makes such a difference to the sales of books for that author and helps to raise the profile of the festival.”

The festival runs from October 6 to October 16.

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