‘We punch above our weight’ Famous authors and big names flood to Chipping...
The likes of David Baddiel, Adam Henson, Ed Stourton, Marina Hyde, Will Gompertz, Clare Mackintosh and Simon Sebag Montefiore will be gracing the Chipping Norton Literary Festival this...
Check out Wit & Words, Oxford’s new, ‘alternative literary festival’ at White Hart Wytham...
The White Hart in Wytham has launched Wit & Words, a week long, boutique literary festival with a fabulous line-up of author dinners and entertainment.
Guests can enjoy...
‘You’ve got to be brave, haven’t you?’ Famous author Kate Mosse brings one woman...
Famous author Kate Mosse has decided that now is the perfect time to launch her first one woman show Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also)...
‘I have to write or I’d go bananas.’ Anna Mazzola, the award-winning ‘Queen of...
Award-winning author Anna Mazzola is mighty busy at the moment. Her new crime novel Notes On A Drowning has just been published under the pseudonym Anna Sharpe, she's...
Big names Val McDermid, Robert Goddard, Richard Osman and more celebrate St Hilda’s Crime...
St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend is celebrating in stye with some massive names from the literary world congregating in Oxford, and the fun starts today.
To mark its...
“These women helped me find my voice again” The 100 Women of Oxford featuring...
The 100 Women of Oxford is as much the story of photographer Philippa James as the extraordinary women it features.
Because Philippa was struggling when she started the...
“Fiction is a very powerful tool.” Famous writers Patrick Gale and David Constantine on...
“The first time I did one of these was especially poignant because my subject was sat there in the front row, which moved me to tears.”
When author...
Why Lucy Atkins’ latest novel Magpie Lane will set the cat amongst the pigeons...
Half way through my interview with the best-selling author Lucy Atkins, at The Weston Library in Oxford, I realise I have lost her attention.
While answering my...
“I wrote in a visceral rage” Bestselling author Meg Mason in Oxford to talk...
Anyone who has read Sorrow and Bliss will understand the excitement surrounding author Meg Mason's visit to Oxford to talk about her global bestseller.
Because not only has...
Oxford Literary Festival fights for survival and asks for your help to cover £170,000...
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, the coronavirus epidemic has hit the Oxford Literary Festival like a freight train. Without cancellation insurance and with £170,000...
