Remarkable stories set to inspire audience at Monmouth Women's Festival (From Hereford Times)

Remarkable stories set to inspire audience at Monmouth Women's Festival

8:00am Tuesday 2nd March 2010 in

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BEST-SELLING author Jung Change, whose family memoir Wild Swans remained at the top of the bestseller lists for months back in the 1980s, will present a lecture, From Wild Swans to Mao, at the Monmouth’s Blake Theatre on March 12 as part of Monmouth Women’s Festival.

Her books Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday), have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold more than 15 million copies.

Due to illness, the scheduled event featuring Baroness Park has been replaced by Mady Gerrard, New York dress designer and teenage survivor of a Nazi concentration camp who emigrated to Cardiff.

The festival’s popular Literary Lunch, on March 7, will this year feature Deborah Kay Davies, winner of the 2009 Wales Book of the Year Award for her debut short story collection Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful, and Carole Herman, head teacher of Monmouth Comprehensive School, will talk about an exciting development which aims to connect people with literature through shared reading.

Also including art and craft exhibitions, films and coffee mornings, and a focus on women aeronauts in the foyer of the town’s Nelson Museum, the packed and varied programme concludes on March 19 with an evening of jazz hosted by the Queens Head in Monmouth and featuring jazz violinist and vocalist Azhar Saffir.

The full programme and booking details for the festival, which is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government, can be found at monmouthwomensfestival.

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