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.
Author and journalist Philip Augar is a former equities broker with a doctorate in history. So, who better to write a potent analysis of Barclays? In The Bank That Lived a Little, Augar describes a bank whose boardroom was torn between vaulting ambition...