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# Authors confirmed for Lichfield Literature festival
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/authors-confirmed-for-lichfield-literature-festival/
- Published: 2009-09-13T08:00:04.000Z
- Updated: 2009-09-11T22:04:23.000Z
- Author: Lichfield Live
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![Kate Adie](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/adie-kate-author-image.jpg "adie-kate-author-image")

Kate Adie

A number of authors have been confirmed for the Lichfield Literature festival.

Richard Hawley, director of the Lichfield Festival, [revealed a number of the star turns](http://lichfieldfestivaldirector.blogspot.com/2009/09/lichfield-literature.html?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) on his blog before giving readers a sneak preview at the [official programme](http://www.lichfieldfestival.org/site/images/stories//2009%20literature%20booking%20brochure.pdf?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) for the event.

Although tickets for the showpiece Lichfield Literary Dinner featuring Kate Adie have sold out, the festival will include visits by a number of other authors including:

- David Aaronovitch on the role of conspiracy theories in modern history
- Historical novelist Barbara Ewing
- Lawrence Goldman, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Crime writers Sophie Hannah and Peter Robinson in a Lichfield Library double bill
- Tobias Hill discussing his latest novel The Hidden
- Historian Robert Hutchinson on the Dukes of Norfolk
- Andrew Lambert on Captain John Franklin’s doomed expedition
- Stephen Lyttelton on collating his father’s last writings
- David Charles Manners on the impact of India on his life
- David Nokes speaking about his new biography of Samuel Johnson
- Mathematician Ian Stewart
- Explorer Sara Wheeler on the arctic
- Frances Wilson on Dorothy Wordsworth
- Matthew Yeo on the history of the book.

For more information on the festival, see the [official programme of events](http://www.lichfieldfestival.org/site/images/stories//2009%20literature%20booking%20brochure.pdf?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) or visit the [website](http://www.lichfieldfestival.org/site/?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).