Authors at the festival

Homework may sometimes be a chore for school students – but working from home is a great way to live a low carbon life. Energy-efficient boffins reckon that working from home just once a week can save up to 20 per cent of the carbon dioxide emissions created by traveling to work. That’s why CLIMATE CHANGE & ME is showcasing local authors who both live and work in Islington.

"The Climate Change & Me Festival is a great idea, and a good thing for the local community and beyond, which I am delighted to support." Nick Hornby

"We're all trying to figure out how to save the polar ears while reducing our heating bills. Come to the Climate Change & Me Festival for great ideas about both." Meg Rosoff (Carnegie Medal-winning young adult author; latest book What I Was)

We now have the following authors offering signed copies. A selection of them will also stop by at the festival (approx 4.15-5.15pm). All of them live, or wrote their books, within walking distance of Highbury Fields School.

Charles Palliser The Unburied (novel)
Katharine Quarmby Fussy Freya (picturebook)
Pete May There's a Hippo in My Cistern: One Man's Misadventures on the
Eco-Frontline (humorous memoir)
Betsy Tobin Ice Land (novel)
Nicola Baird Save Cash & Save the Planet (eco guide co-author)
Nicholas Clee Don't Sweat the Aubergine: What Works in the Kitchen and Why
(book about cooking)
Nicolette Jones The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at
Sea (historical non-fiction)
Meg Rosoff What I Was (young adult novel)
Harry Ritchie The Third Party (lad lit novel)
Nick Hornby Slam (young adult novel)
Sue Gee Reading in Bed (novel)
Maya Slater My Darcy's Diary (novel based on Pride and Prejudice), see pic left.
Tim Rushby-Smith Looking Up: A Humorous and Unflinching Account of Learning
to Live Again with Sudden Disability (memoir)
Alison Allen-Gray Unique (picturebook)
Judy Cumberpatch Can You Hear the Sea? (picturebook)







Possibly also (TBC):
Andrea Levy Small Island (Orange Prize-winning novel from the former Highbury Fields student)
Nigel Slater Eating for England (book about cooking)
Jackie Wullschlager Chagall: A Dream of Life (biography) (published on 30
Oct - if copies available)

Some goodie bags will also have copies of books that Ian Jack has generously donated.

As 2008 is the National Year of Reading all authors recommend that you read more with your local library. Look out for the display of local authors’ books during the CLIMATE CHANGE & ME festival at Central Library, just off Holloway Road.

The library is even planning to create a display of local authors' books as part of the CLIMATE CHANGE & ME free family festival.

TIP: Sharing books with friends or book club members, using libraries and donating books to (or buying from) charity shops like Marie Curie at Highbury Corner and Finsbury Park (Seven Sisters Road) or The C4 Charity Bookshop on Blackstock Road is a good way of keeping your reading bill down and doing some good for others at the same time.