Some tickets still available for the Independent Alliance weekend at Foyles

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Starting a week tomorrow on Saturday 11th September, the Independent Alliance weekend at Foyles brings together authors from across the best of British independent publishing for a series of very special events.

Three of the events involving Icon authors, all on Sunday 12th, are:

12.30pm – 1.15pm: History Girls

Helen Castor and Lucy Worsley (Faber), Lisa Hilton(Atlantic), Kitty Ferguson (Icon), Rachel Hewitt(Granta)

We wouldn’t dream of naming names, but there seem to be a lot of men writing about history these days. Just to balance the scales (and then some), we bring you the history girls.

1.45-2.30: Me, Me, Me

Rupert Thomson (Granta), Jean Baggott (Icon) andJenny Diski (Profile)

Flannery O’Connor once said that anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write about for the rest of their days. But surely it isn’t all fodder for memoir? Our panellists look at what of our lives can be transferred to the page and what, if anything, is best left unwritten.

4.45 – 5.30: How to Write Non-fiction

Geoff Dyer (Canongate), Andrea Gillies (Short), Colin Evans (Icon), and Joe Moran (Profile)

Whether it’s a historic locale or a mother without memory, a truly gruesome crime or the banalities of daily existence, these authors have chronicled real life in unbelievable ways.

Tickets for parts of or the whole weekend range from £12 – £25 and there’s just a few left, so get yours now!