The Chester Literature Festival is a literary festival held in Chester, UK every October since 1989.
The 2009 Shell Chester Literature Festival, is a festival now in its twenty-first year. The two-week programme, packed with writers, books and ideas, is wide-ranging, presenting leading novelists, poets, actors and theatre directors, but also explores the wider worlds of literary biography, history, travel, politics, wild life, food and the law.
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