Festival Readers’ Night

Bethan Roberts is a novelist whose debut novel, The Pools, was published in 2004 after she won an Arvon/Jerwood Young Writers’ Prize. Her second novel, published in July 2008, is entitled The Good Plain Cook.

Gaynor Arnold’s first novel, Girl In A Blue Dress, published by Tindal Street Press, is a re-telling of the lives of Charles and Catherine Dickens.

Mohammed Hanif is head of the BBC’s Urdu Service, having graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as a Pilot Officer only to decide to pursue a career in journalism. A Case of Exploding Mangoes is his first novel.