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A Star-Studded Line-Up!
We’re proud to make the first announcement of the line-up for this year’s PENZANCE LITERARY FESTIVAL – and it’s a star-studded one! Our guests include Salley Vickers author of ‘The Cleaner of Chartres’ and ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’ Damian Barr author of ‘Maggie and Me’, which will be serialized as Radio 4′s Book of the Week starting [...]
A date for your diary – Wednesday, May 23rd
A date for your diary: Wednesday, May 23rd – The Acorn, at 7pm. The event? It’s the Penzance Literary Festival Association’s Annual General Meeting. Yes, the PLFA AGM! PLFA is the organization behind the Litfest. It provides the movers and shakers and workers who have the ideas and make things happen. PLFA has a Chairperson, a [...]
Books Plus stays a bookshop! Hooray!
Tomorrow – Friday, May 4th – it’s the end of an era at Books Plus. It’s the last day when we’ll see David and Barbara behind the counter and serving customers. After 20 hard-working years they are taking a well-earned retirement, and we wish them many happy years ahead. Their loyal customers will be heaving [...]
Congratulations, Patrick!
We’re delighted to congratulate Patrick Gale on the publication this week of his fourteenth novel, A Perfectly Good Man, which is set in Pendeen, near St Just, in West Cornwall. It’s already available in hardback (published by Fourth Estate) and on Kindle, and will be out in paperback at the end of May. We’re also honoured [...]
Cyprus Well awards PZ-LITFEST £400
We are delighted to announce that Cyprus Well, the literature development charity for South West England, has awarded us £400 towards the cost of delivering the 2012 Penzance Literary Festival. We shall put the money towards our publicity and printing budget: it will help us to make a good job of spreading the word about [...]
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