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Oxfam Bookfest with Susie Dent

Do you know your kettlebell from your knork? Countdown’s cult language guru parses the patois in Words of the Year.

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Harborne
Birmingham B17 9NR
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Oxfam Bookfest with Peter James

in conversation with Peter Guttridge

Dead Tomorrow: the master of crime discusses his latest, Brighton-based thriller...

"Lynn gripped the sides of the armchair, trying to put aside her own inner terror. 'I can't believe I'm thinking this, Ross. I'm not a violent person, even before Caitlin's influence, I never even liked killing flies in my kitchen. Now I'm sitting here actually willing some stranger to die.'"

The body of a teenager dredged from the seabed off the coast of Sussex is found to be missing its vital organs. Soon two more young bodies are found. Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton, will die if she does not receive an urgent liver transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down, Lynn, her mother, turns in panic to the internet and discovers a broker who can provide her with a black-market organ – but at a price. As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughter's life.

'One of the most fiendishly clever crime fiction plotters.' Daily Mail.

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30 Kensington Gardens
Brighton BN1 4AL
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Oxfam Bookfest with Esther Freud

In conversation with Sophie Lording

Esther Freud's novels include the acclaimed Hideous Kinky, The Wild, Gaglow and The Sea House. She reads her wonderful Ox-Tales story 'Rice Cakes and Starbucks', in which Londoners decamp for Los Angeles.

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Bury St Edmunds IP33 1SQ
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Oxfam Bookfest with Beryl Bainbridge and Fflur Dafydd

in conversation with Jon Gower

The great novelist Beryl Bainbridge has written about her life in Liverpool in An Awfully Big Adventure, and has recently concentrated on historical fiction like the modern classics - Every Man For Himself, The Birthday Boys, Master Georgie, According to Queenie, and most recently The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress.

The superstar Welsh writer Fflur Dafydd won the 2009 Oxfam Emerging Writers Award at the Hay Festival this year for her remarkable novel Twenty Thousand Saints, a thrilling story set on the island of Bardsea.

They talk to the author and broadcaster Jon Gower.

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35–37 Bold Street
Liverpool L1 4DN
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Oxfam Bookfest with David Lodge

in conversation with Peter Florence

Lodge discusses his career and fiction from the great Campus comedies of the 1980s and 90s – Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work – to the later novels Therapy, Thinks and Deaf Sentence, his Henry James adventure Author! Author! and his masterly writers' bible The Art of Fiction.

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or from the local Oxfam Bookshop:
101 High Street
Worcester WR1 2HW
Tel: 01905 26967