New chapter opens in town’s Books by the Beach event
Books by the Beach – Scar borough’sbook festival – is back with headliners including Jeremy Vine and Polly Toynbee on Saturday June 12 and Sunday June 13.
Authors will be appearing in-person at a number of venues around the town. There are only so many tickets available due to social distancing and reduced venue capacity so early booking is being encouraged.
The event is headlined by one of the UK’s best-known broadcasters Jeremy Vine. It will be Jeremy’s second visit to the festival. He will be speaking about his debut novel The Diver and the Lover – a book based on true historical events surrounding a Salvador Dali painting.
BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner, who survived an Islamist ambush whilst reporting in Riyadh – will be discussing his new book Outbreak.
There are a number of events at St Mary’s Church including bestselling writer Rowan Coleman who introduces her Bronte mysteries under the pen name of Bella
Full programme Saturday June 12
Claire Wilcox: Patchwork: A Life Amongst Clothes – Queen Street Church, 10am.
Rowan Coleman: The Bronte Mysteries – St Mary’s Church, 1pm
Polly Toynbee and David Walker: The Lost Decade – St Mary’s Church, 3pm
Frank Gardner: Outbreak – Queen Street Church, 5pm
Jeremy Vine – Queen Street Church, 7.30pm
Sunday June 13
Horatio Clare: Heavy Light – YMCA Theatre, St Thomas Street, 10am
Salley Vickers and Clare Chambers – St Mary’s Church, 1pm
David Atherton: Good Enough to Eat – St Mary’s Church, 3pm
Julian Norton: All Creatures – Queen Street Church, 5pm
Joann Fletcher: Ancient Eygpt – Queen Street Church, 7.30pm
Ellis. The series sees the Bronte sisters turn detectives before they become famous authors.
Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and contributing editor David Walker will be taking us through the ups and downs of the last decade and award-winning journalist Horatio Clare takes us on a journey of personal discovery with his new memoir Heavy Light.
Positive life changes are high on the agenda for British Bake Off winner David Atherton.
TV vet Julian Norton will be sharing heart-warming animal tales from his new book All Creatures.
Fiction writers Salley Vickers and Clare Chambers will be sharing the stage.
Books by the Beach opens and closes with a strong nod to history. Senior Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum Claire Wilcox is the festival’s opening event. Ancient Egypt: Secrets from the Coffin sees Scarborough’s Professor Joann Fletcher ‘close the lid’ on the festival.
Tickets go on sale online tomorrow at sjt. uk.com and via booksbythebeach.co.uk