BORDERLINES is back for a second year with many familiar faces - and voices - in the literary line-up.

The Carlisle literature festival runs from Thursday-Sunday, September 3-6, with more events in the main venues of Crown and Mitre Hotel, Tullie House, Carlisle Library, Carlisle Cathedral and Waterstones.

Altogether, 35 talks and workshops.

Included will be the smoothest voice in radio - Charlotte Green, Radio 4 legend now a popular fixture on Classic FM, who pops into the city's Crown and Mitre on Saturday, September 5 (11.30am) with BBC colleague, Feedback presenter, Roger Bolton, to talk on The News is Read.

Highly regarded Windermere-based thriller writer Paula Daly is also on the bill. Paula, whose books can give The Girl on the Train a run for her money, will appear at Carlisle Library on the Sunday (3pm).

Paula's third - and much awaited - novel, The Mistake I Made, is due out on August 27.

Fellow Lakelander, storyteller Taffy Thomas, also has a few tales to tell at the library on the Sunday from 11.30am.

There's a fantastic, wide-ranging mix of authors and speakers as well as a range of workshops for would-be authors.

Representing the great outdoors will be mountaineer Simon Yates, known as 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson’s book (and film) Touching the Void, which recounts their horrific climbing dilemma 30 years ago.

Simon tells of My Mountain Life at the Crown and Mitre on Friday, September 4 (8pm).

Broadcaster Fiona Armstrong talks about her passion for fishing at Tullie House on Saturday, September 5 (11.30am), while three fabulous female historians look back on the past - Kate Williams on the First World War (The Storms of War, Crown and Mitre, Sunday, September 6, 11.30am), Juliet Barker with England Arise, The Peasants’ Revolt (Crown and Mitre, Sunday, 3pm) and Jenny Uglow, speaks about Cumbrian architect Sarah Losh as well as, in a separate talk, on living in Napoleonic times (Tullie House, Saturday, September 5, 3pm).

International humanitarian Terry Waite will be at the Crown and Mitre on Saturday, September 5 (6pm) with Voyage of the Golden Handshake and ex-schools inspector turned comedian, Gervase Phinn, talks about the Life and Loves

in the Little Village School, at Crown and Mitre the following day (Sunday, 1.30pm).

As for visual art, Cate Haste puts festivalgoers in the picture about Scottish painter Craigie Aitchison at Tullie House on the Saturday (1.30pm).

The day after at Tullie House (3pm) Esme Whittaker focuses on Arts and Crafts Houses in the Lake District.

To view the full festival programme visit www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk.