Saturday, Dec 10, 2011: Local Author Fair, Reading Library

Reading Central Library invites everyone to come and meet a host of local authors from 10am – 4:30pm. There will be 20 stalls of authors who write Romance, Crime, Sci Fi, Poetry, Local Interest, Travel and more.

Please stop by the Two Rivers Press stall and meet our authors and poets.

10-11am Gill Learner (The Agister’s Experiment)
11-11.30 Ian House (Cutting the Quick)
11.30-12 Dennis Butts (From the Abbey to the Office: A Short Introduction to Reading and its Writers)
12-2 Peter Robinson (English Nettles and Reading Poetry: An Anthology)
2-3 Adrian Blamires (The Pang Valley and The Effect of Coastal Processes)
3-4 Kate Noakes (The Wall-Menders)/Susan Utting (Houses without Walls)

and ….

Adam Sowan, bestselling author of The Reading Quiz Book, will be there all day! He is also the author of A Mark of Affection, The Stranger in Reading , Abbatoirs Road to Zinzan Street and The Holy Brook. He’s an expert on much Reading local history and is delighted to talk about the town he knows so well.

Some Two Rivers press authors will have their own stalls including Victoria Pugh (Mrs Marvellous), Gill Clark (Down by the River) and Duncan Mackay, author of Bizarre Berkshire and Eat Wild who will be happy to share tales of Berkshire, tips on foraging and recipes for preparing wild mushrooms.

It is a perfect place to do some Christmas shopping. Buy books and have them inscribed by the authors.

Free entry – For details email libraryevents@reading.gov.uk, phone 0118 901 5950 or ask at Reading Central Library