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.
Get your thinking cap on and drop in to design your own original invention with authors of The Little Inventors Handbook, Katherine Mengardon and Dominic Wilcox. With lots of different materials available, you can let your imagination roam free and...
Get ready to think big as Katherine Mengardon and Dominic Wilcox guide you through The Little Inventors Handbook, their step-by-step manual for coming up with ingenious inventions. Be inspired by scarf helicopters, toothbrush maracas and ladybird...
2019 Programme Launched: We Need New Stories 
