THE INDEPENDENT BATH LITERATURE FESTIVAL Bath-Fest_Literature_480 Monday 28 February – Sunday 9 March 2014 This year’s festival showcases the best of fiction and non-fiction, plus names from comedy, sport, food, philosophy, nature and history: Germaine Greer, Hanif Kureishi, Lionel Shriver, A L Kennedy, Rowan Williams, Henry Blofeld, Jennifer Saunders, Alain de Botton, Michael Rosen, Boris Akunin, Kirsty Wark, Game of Thrones’ Gemma Whelan, Mock the Week’s Mark Watson, Mark Hix and Claudia Roden. Lovereading is a Festival Partner at this year’s event and is delighted to be sponsoring two major author events at The Independent Bath Literature Festival (28 February-9 March 2014).  Val McDermid on Jane Austen and Tom Rob Smith on his new novel The Farm, both on Sunday 9 March.  This year’s festival theme is ‘bliss’…the feeling you get as a child when you are presented with an unexpectedly large stick of candyfloss. Or as an adult when you realise they haven’t called last orders just yet. For Val McDermid, bestselling crime author ‘bliss’ is….Jane Austen and Val has been selected to give one of the festival’s exclusive ‘Bliss Lectures’ which will be followed by a Q&A with BBC Radio 4’s Mark Lawson.  Val will be talking about her reworking of Northanger Abbey, re-imagined as a suspense-filled teen thriller.  6.15-7.15pm, Sunday 9th March, Guildhall. Book online for Val McDermid here – https://bathfestivals.org.uk/literature/event/val-mcdermid-bliss-is-jane-austen-part-ii/ and use the discount code LOVEBATH in the checkout system to get 10% off the price. Tom Rob Smith, author of the acclaimed Child 44, has created another thrilling novel with The Farm, inspired by a personal experience.  Shortly after his father has told him the shocking news of his mother’s psychotic breakdown, Daniel receives a call from his mother, escaped from a mental hospital, denying everything.  Who should he believe?  2.45-3.45pm, Sunday 9th March, Old Theatre Royal. Book online for Tom Rob Smith here - https://bathfestivals.org.uk/literature/event/tom-rob-smith/  and use the discount code LOVEBATH in the checkout system to get 10% off the price. EXCLUSIVE LOVEREADING BATH LITERATURE FESTIVAL TICKET DISCOUNT For our exclusive Lovereading offer of tickets to hear Val McDermid and Tom Rob Smith at 10% discount, book online at bathfestivals.org.uk quoting code: LOVEBATH or call 01225 463362. LOVEBATH and can be used on the website for a 10% discount on your two sponsored events. Book online for Val McDermid here – https://bathfestivals.org.uk/literature/event/val-mcdermid-bliss-is-jane-austen-part-ii/ Book online for Tom Rob Smith here - https://bathfestivals.org.uk/literature/event/tom-rob-smith/ Tell us if you are coming to either (or both) events and we can arrange for you to meet the Lovereading team who are attending and possibly even be introduced to the authors.