Literary festival defies effects of recession
There may be a recession on, but the Havant Literary Festival is proving to be resilient after reporting healthy ticket sales.
More than 800 tickets have been sold so far for the festival which opens this Friday. The 10-day festival will host 101 events across 23 venues in the borough much bigger than the 40 events held over four days during the inaugural festival last year. Fay Weldon, Maggie Gee and Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin are among the biggest names giving talks are bestselling novelists.
Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, are also heavily featured with five talks plus an exhibition at the Meridian Centre of the Conan Doyle Collection, which was bequeathed to Portsmouth City Council by leading expert Richard Lancelyn Green. And there are plenty more unusual distractions such as a ghost walk, a tea leaf reading gypsy and a poet in a shed.
“We’ve sold more than 800 ticket and it does seem that the recession hasn’t really affected us. People do need to go out and enjoy themselves and our tickets are good value. We’re going to do better than last year.” said by Lucy Flanner the artistic director.
Local writers Isabel Ashdown, Alex Bell and Yong Pease will feature in a panel discussion on writing for and about teenagers.
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