Public Library Building Awards Dinner - Wednesday 7 October

The black tie dinner on Wednesday evening is sponsored by

The after dinner speaker and presenter of the Awards will be Gervase Phinn, who is widely known as a lively and entertaining speaker. In 2004 he was honoured to receive “The Speaker of the Year Award” from the Association of Speakers' Clubs.

The Times Educational Supplement - “Gervase Phinn is one of the most accomplished public speakers of any kind. A natural storyteller, he combines the timing of the professional comedian with palpable warmth and the ability to deliver a message that is just more than just a series of jokes."

Professor Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years before becoming an education adviser and school inspector. He is now a freelance lecturer, broadcaster and writer.

He has lectured widely and has published many articles on the use of English in education, plus collections of his own plays and stories and has contributed to several anthologies.

He is probably best known for his best-selling autobiographical novels: The Other Side of the Dales, Over Hill and Dale and Head Over Heels in the Dales.

www.gervase-phinn.com