MOUNTAINS TO SEA BOOK FESTIVAL 2010

The Mountains to Sea dlr Book festival will take place from September 7th to 12th 2010. The festival takes place in various venues in Dun Laoghaire, and is comprised of a series of different literary events.
Tickets go on sale from August 4th and are available via the website or the booking line +353 1 231 2929.
In 2009, The Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival enjoyed a fantastic debut thanks to the support and enthusiasm of local book-lovers and, thankfully, not a few first-time visitors to Dún Laoghaire. One writer praised the inaugural festival as “of international standard, with a great local tilt”. On a glorious weekend, the Festival welcomed over 5000 guests who revelled in near-Mediterranean sunshine while strolling from venue to venue.
This year we have aimed to build on that initial success by expanding the programme and the range of events on offer. Among the authors appearing will be no less than four former Booker Prize-winners (five, if you count the late JG Farrell who is honoured in a special appreciation event). Fans of crime fiction, sport and politics are also catered for while the children’s programme is vastly expanded with a Children’s Author Lunch among the highlights. Leviathan Political Cabaret and the DLR Literary Tour return and to deliver The Beckett Address we are pleased to welcome one of Ireland’s finest actors and directors, Alan Stanford .
Also appearing will be Kate Atkinson, DBC Pierre, Joseph O’Connor, Jennifer Johnston, David McWilliams, former Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald, Waterstone’s founder Tim Waterstone and the great Australian novelist, Alex Miller.
For more information on this year’s event visit www.mountainstosea.ie or phone 01 231 2929.

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