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Friday, 2 July
 Hilary Mantel
Hebden Bridge Picture House
 8pm to 9.30pm
£10 (£8) £5 under 26s
Literary Ticket Offer – see Louis de Bernières, Mavis
Cheek, Alison Weir, Suzannah Dunn and Hilary Mantel for £22
One of our finest living writers, Hilary Mantel won the
2009 Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall, a fictional portrait
of Thomas Cromwell. It has since become the bestselling
Booker winner in the history of the prize. Her
other works have also received literary acclaim: Fludd (1989), set in a mill village in the north of England, won
the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, the Cheltenham
Prize and the Southern Arts Literature Prize and An
Experiment in Love (1995) won the 199 6 Hawthornden
Prize. Beyond Black (2005) was shortlisted for both a
2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize and the 2006
Orange Prize for Fiction.
Wolf Hall was also shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel
Award and recently won the US’s National Book Critics
Circle Award for fiction. In 2006, Hilary Mantel was
awarded a CBE.
Hilary Mantel will
read from her
work and take
questions
from the
audience.
Roger Higgins Band featuring Gary
Boyle
Trades Club, Holme Street, Hebden Bridge
9pm to 11.30pm approx
£8 (£6)
 Having lived in New Orleans for a year, soaking up a
spicy southern stew of lazy swamp blues and
syncopated, funky rhythms, Roger Higgins is back in
the UK. He’s performing with well known jazz
guitarist Gary Boyle who brings a cool, understated,
blues flavour to a mix of original material, old blues
numbers, and soulful gospel songs. There’s a good
sprinkling of sweet electric slide guitar from Roger,
while Steve Tann (drums) and Hugh Bradley (bass)
provide a solid, driving rhythm section.
‘Roger Higgins, master of both ethereal atmosphere and
sweaty bar rooms’
(Henry Ayrton, BBC North)
'Boyle's guitar is a weightless marvel, so sharp, clean
and delicate is his picking'
(Mike Butler, Manchester City Life)
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