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Who's at the Gala Weekend?

Find out more about the fantastic authors, illustrators and poets taking part in this year's Gala Weekend and choose the sessions you want to go along to.

from Philip Ardagh to Tommy Donbavand from Lydia Monks to Kjartan Poskitt
from Sara Fellows to Paul Hess from Jeremy Strong to Nick Toczek
from Peter Keane to Sue Limb
Lydia

Lydia Monks

Award-winning illustartor Lydia was born in Surrey and studied Illustration at Kingston University. Her books include the popular Princess and the Wizard series.
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Chris

Chris Mould

Chris went to art school at the age of sixteen. During this time he did various jobs, from delivering papers to washing-up!
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Korky

Korky Paul

Korky studied art at the Durban School of Art in Natal, South Africa and then spent three years working for an advertising agency in Cape Town.
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Kjartan

Kjartan Poskitt

Kjartan has worked on Saturday morning TV, presented science and maths programmes, warmed up thousands of studio audiences, toured his one man show and been Widow Twankey.
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News

Please note that you need to book Meet the Author sessions separately to buying tickets.

The competition is now closed, check back for updates on who has made the 2011 shortlist...

Sara Fellows will be signing copies of her book, The Nine Lives of Oscar the Cat, at Great Ayton RSPCA centre on 5 November.

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Celebration Events

We’ve got some fantastic activities taking place throughout the Gala Weekend if you fancy a break from the books!

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