146 Pomeroy Road, Donaghmore,
Dungannon Co. Tyrone BT702TY
T: 028 8776 1252162LAUNCH OF THE
BELFAST BOOK
FESTIVAL
The 9th Belfast Book Festival, which runs from 7-16 June, was
launched recently at rooftop bar Babel. This year’s festival features
over 80 events showcasing high profile writers and personalities
from home and further afield. From Bake-Off’s Prue Leith, Irish
novelists Roddy Doyle and John Boyne to former hostage Terry
Waite. The line-up also includes ex- politicians Lord David Owen
and Alan Johnson, television presenter and satirist Will Self,
Poet Laureate of the United States Tracy K Smith and renowned
journalists Reni Eddo-Lodge and Paul Mason. For more information
and to book tickets go to BelfastBookFestival.com.Writers and festival participants Glenn Patterson, Dawn Watson and Sharon
Dempsey, Festival Director, Roger Courtney, Sonya Whitefield (Arts Council of
Northern Ireland) pictured with actress Louise Parker.Writers Heather Richardson and Jan Carson with
Jennifer Shepherd from the Open University.Manuela Moser (Festival team) and
Rachel Brown (Seamus Heaney Centre
at Queen’s University Belfast).Lucy Lewis (Book Trust NI)
and writer Sharon Dempsey.