Writer Ken Methold is best known locally for his work for stage and screen.

He wrote, produced and directed two feature films set in Kiama starring members of the Kiama Lions Club. More recently, The Kiama Matinee Theatre has presented two of his comedies.

The productions, directed by Veronica Dzelde, raised over $10,000 for Kiama Lions Club Charities.

On Saturday, October 5, a rehearsed script-in-hand performance of a dramatisation of his latest book 'In Search of Jane Austen' will run from 2.30pm at the Kiama Library.

The performance will run for about 75 minutes, and be directed by Kiama local, Veronica Dzelde. The actors will be local and from Canberra.

Afterwards, there will be the customary refreshments by The Friends of Kiama Library.

Organisers say Ken is really looking forward to the event. Ken, after a lifetime of writing millions and millions of words, is now retired at Warrigal Shellcove.

He has been writing professionally since he left school and full time for the past forty-five years.

He has had six novels published, written extensively for radio and television and contributed to many magazines and newspapers.

He now concentrates on researching and writing about all aspects of life in Regency Britain, and reviews new books, both fiction and non fiction, for The Historical Fiction Review and other specialist publications.

Ken was born and educated in the UK, but lived in Asia for many years before migrating to Australia, where he now lives with his ceramic-artist wife, Sheila.

Ken's first historical mystery was his critically acclaimed pastiche, 'Sherlock Holmes In Australia - the case of the kidnapped Kanaka'.