Robyn Young and S.D. Sykes

with Alan Judd Saturday 6th October 5.00pm – 6.00pm £10 Queen’s Hall Book Court of Wolves The art of the historical novelist is to take what they can from history and then use it in their fiction. But what do you ignore, what do you use, and how do you give...

Michael Odell and D.J. Taylor

with Peter Guttridge Saturday 6th October 8pm–9pm £10 Queen’s Hall Book Rock Bottom: A Music Writer’s Journey into Madness  Rock Bottom is a tale of loving, living and surviving rock music. Michael Odell is a rock music writer who takes his...

Simon Cooke and Patricia Waugh

Muriel Spark 100 with Colin McIlroy Saturday 6th October 6.30pm – 7.30pm £10 Queen’s Hall Book 2018 marks the centenary of the birth of Muriel Spark and provides the perfect opportunity to consider her place in modern literature. In 2008, The Times placed Dame...

Thomas Harding

Blood on the Page with Sue Cook Sunday 7th October 2.00pm – 3.00pm £10 Queen’s Hall Book This extraordinary true tale of isolation, deception and brutal violence, stretches from the quiet streets of north London to the Palace of Westminster and beyond. Thomas...

Anna Mazzola and Richard Mason

The Story Keeper  with Julian Worricker Sunday 7th October 12.30pm – 1.30pm £10.00 Queen’s Hall Book It is 1857 and the Highland Clearances have left the Isle of Skye devastated and the crofters suspicious and hostile. They believe that two young girls who...

Ed Whitmore

Talking to Sue Cook Upstairs@Cuckfest Sunday 7th October 11am – 12 noon £10  Book Ed Whitmore is a screenwriter whose credits include Waking the Dead, Silent Witness and Rillington Place for the BBC. His latest project is Manhunt, the real life story of how...