Literary Lunchbreaks
Banff Centre Dining Room, Noon - 1:15 p.m.
A great opportunity to lunch with friends and hear great mountain writers reading from their works. A buffet lunch is included.

Thursday, October 31
Dermot Somers
Born in Roscommon, Ireland, Dermot Somers has over 25 years of climbing and mountaineering experience in Ireland, Scotland, the European Alps, North and South America and the Himalayas. He was a member of the successful 1993 Irish Everest Expedition (North Ridge) and continues to make numerous trekking and climbing trips, in particular to Nepal. Somers has published two works of fiction, Mountains and Other Ghosts (1990) and At the Rising of the Moon (1994), which won the Boardman Tasker Award in Britain, and the award for Best Book – Environment and Culture at the inaugural Banff Mountain Book Festival.

Friday, November 1
Roger Hubank
Winner of the 2001 Grand Prize in Banff for his novel "Hazard's Way",
Roger Hubank went on to win the Boardman Tasker Award for the same work. Hubank read from his award-winning book, as well as from his new novel, "North", based on the tragic 19th-century American 'Lady Franklin Bay" expedition.

Literary Lunchbreaks are included in the book festival pass, or tickets may be purchased separately.