There are events for just about every age and interest at the Book Festival, bringing readers and writers together for inspiration, entertainment and discussion. Over 900 authors appear in around 800 events, including novelists, poets, scientists, sportsmen, illustrators, comics creators, historians, musicians, biographers, Nobel and Booker prize-winners and many more besides.
Samantha Shannon’s first novel outside her much-loved The Bone Season series is The Priory of the Orange Tree, a masterpiece of worldbuilding that’s had fantasy fans reaching for the superlatives. The bestselling first book in Holly Black’s The...