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Island life & Strangford Lough

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MICHAEL FAULKNER

Books on island life and Strangford Lough

8pm: Lisburn Library, Big Big Reading Group: slides and talk

Wild Geese Festival, Strangford: details tbc

Probus Group, Belfast: slides and talk

Waterstones, George St, Edinburgh: Launch event

Seaforde WI: slides and talk

Hillsborough WI: slides and talk

Senior Citizens Group, Clough: slides and talk

Lagan Canal Restoration Trust at Lisburn Civic Centre: slides and talk

Bangor West Ladies Probus Group: slides and talk

Radio Five FM: Weekend Supplement show with Rowan Hand: music & conversation

Aspects Literary Festival, Bangor: discussion

Literature Conference, LitNet NI, Clifton House, Belfast: Discussion

Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society: lecture

Blackwell’s, Edinburgh: slides and reading

6.00pm  No Alibis, Belfast: reading and slides

Narrows Restaurant, Portaferry: reading and slides for ‘Lough Lively Festival’

6.30pm  Waterstones, Dawson Street, Dublin: reading and slides

6.30pm  Borders Books, Dundee: reading and slides

8.00pm  Downpatrick Library: reading and slides

8.00pm  Waterstones, Newry: reading and slides

9.00pm  Drascombe Association, East Down Yacht Club: talk and slides

7.00pm  Waterstones, Lisburn: reading

8.00pm  The Washing Bay Centre, Coalisland: reading

10.30am  Wigtown Book Festival: reading and slides

2.00pm National Trust, Castle Ward: ‘Meet the author’ event

6 - 8pm  Waterstones, Fountain Street, Belfast: Customer Reception

6.30 - 8pm  Waterstones, Lisburn: Customer reception

Private Book Group event, Saintfield

Castle Espie Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Comber: slides and talk

Ards Tourism Forum, Newtownards: private presentation

Bangor Ladies Probus Group: private slide presentation

Saintfield Heritage Society: talk and slides

Ballynahinch Probus Group: private talk and slides

6.00pm  Waterstones, St.Andrews, Fife: slide presentation & reading

Killinchy Probus Group: private talk and reading

1.30pm  Aspects Literary Festival, Bangor: slide presentation & talk

Bangor Rotary Club: private slide presentation & reading

Bangor WEA: private slide presentation & reading

Women’s Institute (WI) Area Meeting, Ballywalter: slides and reading

Launch of ‘Literary Strangford’, Strangford Lough Yacht Club, Whiterock: reading

Radio and TV

The Blue Cabin:  BBC Radio Ulster’s Your Place and Mine, Sept 2006; RTE’s Afternoon Show, Sept 2006; Saga Radio’s Dave Marshall Show, Sept 2006; BBC Radio Ulster’s Saturday Magazine Show, Dec 2006; RTE’s Nationwide, January 2007; Radio Five FM’s Rowan Hand Show, March 2007, May 2007 and July 2010; UTV’s Ultimate Ulster in August 2007

Still On The Sound:  Seven Thirty Show, UTV; BBC Radio Ulster’s Arts Extra; BBC Radio Coventry; BBC Radio Ulster’s Your Place and Mine; BBC Radio Ulster, This New Day; BBC Radio Ulster, Good Morning Ulster

Reviews in print:

For a selection of newspaper, magazine and online reviews go to the  Reviews Etc page of this site.

Features have appeared in the following publications:

The Blue Cabin:  Coast Magazine, Belfast Telegraph, News Letter, Ulster Tatler, Irish News, Down Recorder, Irish Times, Mourne Observer, Newtownards Chronicle, Ireland’s Own Magazine, and Scottish Field

Still On The Sound:  Down Recorder (extracts); Belfast Telegraph; News Letter; Newtownards Chronicle; Verbal Magazine; Saga Magazine; Irish World

Michael Faulkner is available for occasional talks and readings, and for slide presentations on his books The Blue Cabin and Still On The Sound, island life and Strangford Lough. Email: mikefaulkner@elite.co.uk