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.
Labelled 'one of the best living writers of today', Alexander Chee’s revelatory How To Write An Autobiographical Novel is a memoir in essays exploring his growth as a gay Korean-American man and writer. Joining him is lauded Irish writer Sinéad...