October 2010
Jane will be reading from her own work at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in the Highland Whisky Tent at 3:15 and 6:15.
These readings are FREE events, with complementary whiskey, so please come and support her!
July 2010
Jane will be doing a book signing at the Moreton-in-the-Marsh Cotswold bookstore on Saturday 10 July. View the Jane Bailey window display at the Cotswold Book Store.
June 2010
Jane has been named in the Top 10 Best Books about or set in the Cotswolds. Buy the Tommy Glover’s Sketch of Heaven directly from Amazon.
Aug/Sept 2009
Jane will be co-ordinating The Big Read for Cheltenham Literature Festival in venues around Gloucestershire.
THE BIG READ – CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2010
Jane will be facilitating The Big Read (Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy) for the Cheltenham Literature Festival on:
Tuesday 14th September – 7pm – Chipping Campden Library
Tuesday 21st September – 7pm – Gloucester Library
Wednesday 28th September – 6:30 – Cheltenham Library
Tuesday 5 October- 7pm – Tetbury Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
ALL WELCOME
Also at the Book Groups in the Festival itself at:
Mon 11th October – 3-4pm – Town Hall (free, but need ticket)
Tues 12th October – 3-4pm – Town Hall (free but need ticket)
Wed 13th October – 3-4pm – Town Hall (members only)
FREE EVENT!
She will also be chairing THE POETRY CAFE (free event) at 5:30 every weekday of the Festival.
THE BIG READ, CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2012
Jane will be chairing THE BIG READ (Ian Fleming’s ‘Dr No’) for THE CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL on:
Tues 18th September – 7pm Chipping Campden Library
Thurs 20th September – 7pm Cheltenham Library
Date to be confirmed – The Brewery Arts Centre, Cheltenham
Date to be confirmed – Bournside School
Also at The Big Read Book Groups (‘Dr No’) at the Literature Festival itself on:
Monday 8th October – 2-3pm, Imperial Gardens
Tuesday 9th October – 2-3pm, imperial Gardens
Thursday 11th October – 4-5pm, imperial Gardens
Friday 12th October -2-3pm, Imperial Gardens
FREE EVENT!
Jane will also be chairing THE POETRY CAFE every weekday at THe CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL:
Monday 8th October – 5:30 – 6:15, Ruth Padel and Anna Saunders
Tuesday 9th October -5:30 – 6:15, Yu Jian and Pascale Petit
Wednesday 10th October – 5:30 – 6:15, Jackie Kay and Alison Brackenbury
Thursday 11th October – 5:15 – 6:00, Julia Copus and Christopher reid
Friday 12th October – 5:15 – 6:00, Sean O’Brien and Don Paterson
These are FREE events, so please come and support the poets!
JULY 2nd – 7th 2012
THE ARVON FOUNDATION (The Hurst, Shropshire)
Jane is co-tutoring a creative writing course with Joe treasure
June 21st
Duntisbourne Abbotts WI, talk at 7:30
March 27th
Ashcroft Ladies Circle, Cirencester – talk at 7:30
March 14th
Bishops Cleeve British Legion – talk at 7:30
February 10th
St. Luke’s, Cheltenham WI – talk 7:30
January 11th
Benhall, Cheltenham WI – talk at 7:30
November – April 2012
Jane chairs THE VINTAGE BIG READ BOOK GROUP which meets the first Tuesday of every month at The Montpellier Chapter Hotel. FREE, but need to book through Cheltenham Festivals.
Tues 1st November 2011
THE PATE’S LECTURE: Jane returns to her old school, Pate’s Grammar School, to give the annual lecture.
THE TIMES CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL October 2011
Sat 9th October – PAST MASTERS, 8pm The Playhouse – Jane Bailey, Andrew Taylor and Fiona Mountain discuss setting novels in the past.
Mon 10th – Friday 14th October: Jane chairs THE BIG READ BOOK GROUP (Joseph Heller’s Catch 22) every weekday at THE CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2-3pm
Monday 10th – Friday 14th October, 5:30 – 6:15, Jane hosts the POETRY CAFE for The Cheltenham Literature Festival. (Poets are: Victor Nunez, Sara-Jane Arbury, Marcus Moore, Fiona Sampson, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Esther Morgan and Lawrence Sail) This is a FREE event: just come along!
THE BIG READ, CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2011
Prior to The Literature Festival, Jane will be chairing BIG READ book groups around Gloucestershire:
Tues 6th September – Chipping Campden Library, 7pm
Wed 21st September – Denmark road School, 2:30pm
Wed 21st September – Stroud Library, 7pm
Wed 28th September – Bournside School, 3:30pm
Thursday 29th September – Cheltenham Library 7pm
September 1st
Blockley WI – talk at 7:30pm
18th – 23rd JULY
THE ARVON FOUNDATION (Moniack Mhor, Inverness)
Jane co-tutors a creative writing course with Beatrice Colin.
23rd June
Newent WI – talk at 7:30pm
14th June
Southfield WI – talk at 7:30pm
4th June
Tetbury Yellow-Lighted Book Festival 1pm
1st June
The Cranham Players kindly and delightfully perform Tommy Glover’s Sketch of Heaven, Jane’s adapted novel for radio, with the expert assistance of screenwriter, Maurice Gran. Cranham Village Hall, 7:30pm.
THE TIMES CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTVAL 2012
Jane will be hosting THE POETRY CAFE every weekday at the festival:
Monday 8th October – 5:30 – 6:15, Ruth Padel and Anna Saunders
Tuesday 9th October – 5:30 – 6:15, Yu Jian and Pascale Petit
Wednesday 10th October – 5:30 – 6:15, Jackie Kay and Alison Brackenbury
Thursday 11th October -5:15 – 6:00, Julia Copus and Christopher Reid
Friday 12th October – 5:15 – 6:00, Sean O’Brien and Don Paterson
These are FREE events, so come and support the poets!
Setup your own book group!
See Jane’s step-by-step guide on how to setup your own book group.
July 2006
Public Book Signing, Ottakar’s Cheltenham 2pm
March 2007
11.30am Guildhall, Bath Literature Festival
Oct 2009
Jane will be appearing at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. More details soon.
July 2006
Public Reading & Book Signing, Waterstone’s Bath.
1999-2004
Tutor on seven creative writing workshops at Cheltenham Festival of Literature (1999 – 2004) including one combined 5-day course with Lesley Glaister.
May 2006
Jane’s new novel, Mad Joy, is published.
2004
Tommy Glover’s Sketch of Heaven to be published in the UK in 2005 by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson.
Tommy Glover’s Sketch of Heaven will be published in hardback in the USA by Carroll and Graf.
October 2004
Cheltenham Festival of Literature: Jane tutors a two-day writing course, introduces and chairs various events and sets the 2004 Festival Challenge. Jane is a member of the Literature Festival Committee.
November 2004
Cheltenham Festival of Literature: Jane tutors a two-day writing course, introduces and chairs various events and sets the 2004 Festival Challenge. Jane is a member of the Literature Festival Committee.
1996
Promising, Jane’s debut novel, is Shortlisted for the Dillon’s First Fiction Prize
1995
Two book contract with Headline Publishing
2001
Writer in Residence for Gloucestershire Primary Schools (Gloucestershire ‘Time to Write’ project, sponsored by the Arts Council).
1997
An Angel in Waiting is published
1996-1999
Tutor on Arvon Foundation creative writing courses
1999
Award from The Royal Literary Fund