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Damned United author for Leeds LitFest
David Peace, author of The Damned United, will be a headline attraction at a Leeds literature festival.
The novelist will answer questions and read extracts from two of his books, Occupied City and GB84 – to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Miners' Strike – in the Headingley LitFest at the New Headingley Club, Leeds, on March 27.
The Ossett-born author, who will appear at 3pm, wrote The Damned United, about Brian Clough's ill-fated 44-day reign as Leeds United boss.
It was recently turned into an acclaimed film, starring Michael Sheen as Clough.
Peace's CV also features the Red Riding Quartet, which places an epic narrative of police and council corruption against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders.
Occupied City is the second part of a crime trilogy set in Tokyo in the aftermath of the Second World War, while GB84 examines the impact of the miners' strike on pit communities in Yorkshire.
Organiser Richard Wilcocks said: "We're very happy that David Peace will be appearing. We had Beryl Bainbridge last year and she had a very full audience. She loved the people she met so we're expecting the same reaction from a completely different writer.
"Headingley is the literary part of Leeds. Arthur Ransome was born in Headingley; it is widely believed that Tolkien wrote The Hobbit while he was at Leeds University and TS Eliot's mother-in-law lived on Weetwood Lane."
Other top names lined up to appear at the festival, from March 16 to 27, include Bradford-born Chris Mould, author and illustrator of the Something Wickedly Weird children's books, who will draw and talk about his work.
The event, suitable for children aged eight to 12, will take place at Headingley Library on March 27, at 1.30pm.
Crime writer Frances NcNeil, also known as Frances Brody, will talk about her Headingley-based fictional sleuth Kate Shackleton and perform dramatised readings from her novels, joined by audiobooks reader Maggie Mash.
This event is also at Headingley Library, on March 26 from 7pm.
At the same venue on March 23, Leeds Metropolitan University professor Dave Russell will talk about the late Yorkshire novelist Phyllis Bentley.
Headingley LitFest, first held in 2008, will also include readings, plays and lectures, as well as the annual poetry slam at Lawnswood School on March 25. For tickets, call 0113 2756652.
For more information and a full timetable, call 0113 2257397 or visit www.headingleylitfest.co.uk.
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