Ted Jones at Edinburgh Festival 2008

2008-04-11

Ted Jones has been invited to present his book, The French Riviera: A Literary Guide (ISBN 978-1-84511-455-8) at the Edinburgh International Festival of Literature (August 9-25, 2008). He will be speaking there on the evening of Monday, August 11th. The Literature Festival, part of the mammoth Edinburgh Festival, will feature more than 600 authors from over 40 countries.

Ted will be sharing the platform in the Peppers Theatre with Nicholas Murray, the famous novelist and biographer (of Bruce Chatwin, Kafka and Aldous Huxley, among others). Ted will be talking about, and reading from, his book,. The authors' presentations will be followed by signings of copies of their respective books in the Festival Bookshop.

As part of an ongoing series of events to launch the book on the French Riviera, Ted participated in a combined event featuring his book, together with an exhibition of the paintings of Bernard Payet, the illustrator of the book, at the Villa Luciane in La Gaude on Saturday, May 17, 2008. See picture below.