6:00 – 7:00PM

Sebastian Faulks

Fires Which Burned Brightly: Ten Essays in Place of a Memoir

7:45 – 8:45PM

Tim Spector

Ferment: The Life Changing Power of Microbes

In conversation with Lucinda Hawksley

10:30 – 11:30AM

Sophy Roberts

A Training School for Elephants

12:15 – 1:15PM

Horatio Clare

We Came by Sea: Stories of a greater Britain

In conversation with Stephen Moss

2:00 – 3:00PM

Gina Rippon

The Lost Girls of Autism: How Science Failed Autistic Women and the New Research that’s Changing the Story

In conversation with Jo Durrant

3:45 – 4:45PM

Edward St Aubyn

Parallel Lines

In conversation with William Waldegrave

5:30 – 6:30PM

Dan Richards

Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark

7:30 – 8:30PM

Sumit Paul-Choudhury

The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World

In conversation with George Miller

12:00 – 1:00PM

Nick Trend

What Art Can Tell Us About Love

2:30 – 3:30PM

Howard Jacobson

What Will Survive of Us

Book Group Event

4:15 – 5:15PM

Mike Berners-Lee

A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It and How to Get It

6:00 – 7:00PM

Lamorna Ash

Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion

In conversation with Rowan Williams

7:45 – 9:45PM

Wells Literary Quiz

Quirky quiz conundrums!

11:30AM – 12:30PM

Midge Gillies

Atlantic Furies: The Women Who Risked Everything to be the First to Fly

2:00 – 5:00PM

International Competitions

Prize Giving and Poetry Readings

6:00 – 7:00PM

Masud Husain

Our Brains, Ourselves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain

In conversation with Dr Lucy Pollock

7:45 – 8:45PM

Simon Kuper

World Cup Fever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments

In conversation with Charlie Taylor

2:00 – 3:00PM

Carol Klein

Hortobiography: A Gritty Woman’s Tale of People, Places and Plants

In conversation with Charlie Taylor

4:15 – 5:15PM

Tim Willasey-Wilsey

The Spy and the Devil: The untold story of the MI6 agent who penetrated Hitler’s inner circle

6:00 – 7:00PM

Stuart Maconie

With a Little Help from Their Friends

In conversation with Chris Salmon

7:45 – 8:45PM

Selena Wisnom

The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History

2:00 – 3:00PM

Lucy Mangan

Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives

In conversation with David Lister

6:00 – 7:00PM

Tim Bouverie

Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler

In conversation with William Waldegrave

7:45 – 8:45PM

Emily Hauser

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, through the Women Written Out of it

4:15 – 5:15PM

Andrew Lownie

Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

6:00 – 7:00PM

Anne Sebba

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

7:45 – 8:45PM

Steve Crawshaw

Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice

In conversation with David Lister

2:00 – 3:00PM

James Canton

Renaturing: Small Ways to Wild the World

In conversation with George Miller

4:30 – 5:30PM

Frank Close

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age 1895 – 1965

6:15 – 7:15PM

Iain Dale

Margaret Thatcher

8:00 – 9:00PM

Christopher Summerfield

These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

10:30 – 11:30AM

Prue Leith

Life’s too Short to Stuff a Mushroom

In conversation with Caroline Waldegrave

12:15 – 1:15PM

Ros Ballaster

Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible

2:00 – 3:00PM

Tim Minshall

Your life is manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better

3:45 – 4:45PM

Luke Pepera

Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity

5:30 – 6:30PM

Lyse Doucet

The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A people’s history of Afghanistan

In conversation with James Coomarasamy

7:15 – 8:15PM

Rachel Parris

Introducing Mrs Collins: A Pride and Prejudice novel

In conversation with George Miller