What a line-up we have for our Literary Lunch!

Oct 2 2008 by Hilarie Stelfox, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

WE’VE got a few tickets left for the Examiner’s Literary Lunch next week and this is your last chance to buy one.

Tuesday’s lunch at the Galpharm Stadium features Huddersfield’s own world-famous poet and author Simon Armitage and promises to be a superbly entertaining event.

We have five speakers covering a wide range of subjects as well as a three-course meal.

Next to Simon on the top table will be Stephanie Calman, author of How (Not) to Murder Your Mother; Bill Mitchell, Hannah Hauxwell’s biographer; chick lit writer Jane Costello; and David Joy, who has co-authored a book on the Mouse Man of Kilburn, the Yorkshire furniture maker who ‘signed’ his work with a carved mouse.

Between them our authors will provide an hour-long literary feast after a satisfying lunch. It’s an afternoon not to be missed.

Marsden-born Simon, whose warm, wry and witty style of writing makes him the perfect guest at a literary luncheon, will be telling us about his new book, Gig, The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist.

Stephanie, whose books are packed with observational humour on 21st- century life and families, is perhaps best known for her website www.badmothersclub.co.uk

Her book, Dressing for Breakfast, was made into a Channel 4 television series.

All our writers will be signing copies of their books after the lunch.

The Examiner Literary Lunch, which starts at noon, is being sponsored by florists Yorkshire Rose and Waterstones bookshops.

Tickets are £25 each and can be booked at the Examiner’s customer reception on Queen Street South or by calling 01484 430000 and asking for reception. The booking line will close at 11.30am tomorrow.

The menu for our luncheon is Venison terrine with balsamic red onion chutney and orange herb salad, followed by oven-baked breast of chicken, with honey and ginger roasted root vegetables, Charlotte potatoes and green peppercorn sauce.

For pudding there is choux buns, Chantilly cream, dark chocolate sauce and mango dressing. There will be coffee and chocolates after the meal. A vegetarian option is available.

The Literary Luncheon will also see the launch of Baldy’s Book, the collected blogs of leukaemia campaigner and Examiner journalist Adrian Sudbury, who died in August after a lengthy battle against the disease. All profits from the book, which costs £7.99, are going to the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust.