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ALF 2006

The 2006 edition, held from 19-21 May, drew high-profile guests including award-winning novelist Sarah Waters and returning speakers: David Mitchell and Kate Adie. Sebastian Peake, the son of Mervyn Peake, gave a riveting, illustrated talk on the work of his late father, author of the Gormenghast trilogy and illustrator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Like the 2005 edition, local authors – many of them known around the world – were very much in focus. They included events with Rodney Bolt (History Play: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe, Lorenzo da Ponte: The Adventures of Mozart's Librettist in the Old and New Worlds), Ken Wilkie (The Van Gogh File, Rambling with Rembrandt), Carol Ann Lee (Anne Frank's Story, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, Begraven als een koning), Judith Weingarten (The Chronicle of Zenobia – The Rebel Queen) and Niala Maharaj (Like Heaven).

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