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No. 275 April 2005 • Circulation 24,000


















                       and the swindon wide what's on guide


      Harry Potter and                            Top literature                         NEW ADDRESS &
     the great auction                               i n Swindon                      TELEPHONE FOR LINK
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                                             Whether it's a serious novelist, a comedian,
                                             politician, poet or a children's writer, some of
                                             the nation's top wordsmiths arrive in May for  There's always a warm
                                             the twelfth Swindon Festival of Literature.  welcome from Mr Ali
                                              The free programme is now available all over  and his staff at Purton's
                          li1 ► j^ ((y       the town and on the web. Now's the time to  hidden Indian treasure
         }               POTTER              book tickets for the events in the first two
                                 °°          weeks in May. Highlights in our centre pages.
                                             Festival director Matt Holland reveals the programme
                                             on 17 March with Anna and Jake Hirsch-Holland




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