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The continues this year, from the 4th-6thÌýJune at the Black Box. It began last year with Hollywood legend Tony Curtis and creator of "The Wire" David Simon. I still get the odd flashback of me and Tony Curtis on the Ulster Hall stage, me not getting a word in for a full 15 minutes!

This year "Life of Pi" Booker winnerÌýYann Martel,Ìýthe science writer Simon Singh whose book "Fermat's Last Theorem" was the first maths book to be a number one bestsellerÌýand Hugh Ambrose the writer of the tv blockbuster "The Pacific".

I'llÌýbe in conversation withÌýYann Martel on Friday the 4th June at 5pm. He's got a newÌýnovel outÌý"". More animalsÌýfeature in this newÌýbook,Ìýafter the menagerie of animals on that lifeboat in Life of Pi, this time, a donkey and a monkey, a dark allegory on the Holocaust.Ìý

Only got a copy yesterday and aim to start reading it tonight, which means putting aside the new Colin Bateman novel for a week or so. Bateman won't mind.Ìý