Our Past Festival Speakers

Clive Myrie

Everything is Everything

The Bookshop Band

An evening of live music inspired by books

Tim Moorey

The Secrets of a Crossword Setter

Dr Matthew Green

Shadowlands

Jane Robinson

Trailblazer: The Amazing Life of Barbara Bodichon

Rabbi Jonathan Romain

Confessions of a Rabbi

Charles Spicer 

Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs who Tried to Civilise the Nazis

Fergus Butler-Gallie

Touching Cloth: Confessions of a Young Priest

John Davis

Writing Sixties London

Anne Sebba

Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother

Dr Helen Fry

Women in Intelligence: A Hidden History from WW1 to WW2

Lucinda Hawksley

Charles Dickens: A Victorian Traveller

Leye Adenle

Writing a Modern African Thriller

Helen Czerski

Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World

Dr Pat Morris MBE

The Secret Life of Hedgehogs

Phillip Sheahan

The WRITE Time is NOW

Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC and Crown Court Judge Nicola Williams

Unlawful Killings and 'Without Prejudice'

Catherine Coldstream

Cloistered: A Modern Monastic Memoir

Judith Robinson and Scott Pack

Around the World in Ten Cats