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Best ever line up for Literature Festival WOOTTON BASSETT

Top Tory grandee Douglas Hurd will be motoring down to Swindon from his West Oxfordshire home to talk
about his new political thriller The Shape of Ice on Tuesday 5 May as part of a packed programme in Swindon's
fifth Festival of Literature.
Festival director Matt Holland Party BoxJ
The ex-Foreign Secretary heads
an impressive list of literary figures said, "we try to cater for a wide The One Stop
and others who have turned their range of interest and tastes. I'm Party Shop
hand to pen and word processor. really excited by the breadth of
Last month's Link announced experience at this year's festival. Novelties & Gifts
bookings by writers Bel Mooney Some of ourvisitors are real scoops • Fancy dress accessories
and Professor Germaine Greer, for Swindon." n Balloons & balloon
Radio 4 presenter Libby Purves This year's festival also includes decoration service
and Private Eye satirist Paul Foot. the biggest ever school's pro- • Helium gas kits
Added to the line up are gramme, funded by the Swindon A wide range for
psychiatrist Anthony Clare, well Arts Foundation, with some of the weddings, birthdays,
known for his radio consultations, country's leading story tellers Christenings and parties
one time drug smuggler and now visiting over a dozen schools.
freeweeling author Howard Marks The Festival programme is 13 Apsley House Arcade
High Street, Wootton Bassett
and Tony Bullimore, the sailor launched on Thursday 19 March
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Pacific last year. around the town.
Jacqueline Wilson, the only
children's writer to also have Douglas Hurd
appeared in the top 10 of British and the City Lights Cabaret will
fiction, in 1997, will be the starof the combinejazz and beat poetry of the PARTNERS
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