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.
Lavinia Greenlaw’s new collection The Built Moment features a deeply moving sequence on her father’s dementia, prompting a meditation on memory and the ways we build – and lose – meaning. Multiple prize-winning poet, novelist and Ted Hughes...
The West-Eastern Divan was Goethe's last major body of poetry, a tribute to Persian verse. To celebrate its bicentenary, A New Divan brings together 24 poets from West and East in a dialogue exploring otherness. This major international event brings...