Book Festival round up

Well, the Prestwich Book Festival is over for another year, and though it was small it was perfectly formed.

Check out lovely pictures from the marquee - a day of childrens' events on May 18 at Prestwich Clough Day, via Emma Farrer's Flickr photostream.

Meanwhile there's a great write up of our readers' day on June 1 by blogger Molly of A Place In Prestwich. There were many highlights to the day, but I only just noticed, from the picture in this blog, how fabulous Emma Jane Unsworth's shoes were.

Finally, the lovely Park View Primary School ran a short story writing competition among its 600 or so pupils: and local author Sherry Ashworth went along to award prizes to the very best of them.

This year's authors: Sherry Ashworth, EM Powell, Dominic Berry, Tony Walsh, Emma Jane Unsworth, Vanessa Lees, Honor Giles and Paul Neads.