Bridport Literary Festival (BridLit) tickets are selling fast, with some events already sold out.

BridLit, which takes place Sunday, November 6 to Saturday, November 12 sees a variety of authors covering an array of genres.

Author Kit De Waal will be welcomed back on November 11; she has won The Bridport Prize two years in a row for her flash fiction.

She is under the spotlight following the recent release of her memoir, Without Warning and Only Sometimes.

The author was on Radio 4’s Start the Week last week discussing the city of Birmingham with Tom Sutcliffe, alongside Richard Vinen and Liz Berry, and her memoir was a Radio 4’s Book of the Week.

Festival spokeswoman Margery Hookings said: “The memoir is stinging yet warm-hearted. In a household of opposites and extremes, and caught between three worlds, Irish, Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham, de Waal and her siblings knew all the words to the best songs, caught sticklebacks in jam jars and braved hunger and hellfire until they could all escape.”

The Guardian wrote: “De Waal excels at bringing out the humanity of characters leading small lives on the fringe of huge social and political forces, struggling bravely not to be crushed by them.”

She will be at The Electric Palace, Bridport, on Friday, November 11 at 6.30 pm, in conversation with Lisa Blower, an award-winning short story writer and novelist.

Another anticipated author is Katie Hickman - she will be discussing her book, Brave Hearted – The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West, on Monday 7 November in The Bull Ballroom.

The story follows, women of the American west, from the hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns to 'ordinary' wives and mothers walking two thousand miles across the prairies pulling their handcarts behind them, Chinese slave brides working in laundries and Native American women displaced by the mass migration.

Andy West will be talking to Prue Keely on the 9th November. He teaches philosophy in prisons and has conversations with prisoners about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings, and offers new ways to think about their situation.

He will be talking about his book, The Life Inside: A Memoir of Family, Philosophy & Prison, in the Bull Ballroom.

For tickets, contact Bridport Tourist Information Centre in Bucky Doo Square, call 01308424901 or email: Bridport-tc.gov.uk