Sunday 10th July
11.00 Michelle Magorian
Perrenially popular children’s author, Michelle describes how her novels relate to each other with readings from 'Goodnight Mr Tom' to her most recent 'Just Henry'.
‘Only the greatest authors of children's fiction share this ability to touch the heart’. (The Times)
12.30 Nigel Farndale
Nigel’s Costa Prize -shortlisted novel, 'The Blasphemer' interweaves the story of a zoologist involved in a plane crash and his ancestor, a soldier at Passchendaele, confronting the issues of love, cowardice and redemption.
‘A constantly engaging and witty novel from a tremendously clever writer.’ (The Telegraph )
14.30 Leo Benedictus 
Leo's first novel is a biting satire on the cult of celebrity. 'The Afterparty' is a book within a book and is based on a true story. It follows the story of Michael, a journalist who goes to a celebrity party that goes tragically wrong. Leo will be reading a scene from the book, with members of the audience being asked to voice key roles. Everybody present will also get the chance to make a cameo appearance in next year’s paperback edition!
'Shockingly accomplished… fearlessly funny…but what really sets it ablaze is the brilliance of the writing… Benedictus is surely a cert for the Man Booker and Costa shortlists.' (Independent on Sunday)
14.30-16.00 The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Treehouse Theatre return with another of their popular participatory children’s summer party shows, ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’,which promises lots of fun for those aged 2-8 years old.
16.30 Julie Hill and Nick Hayes
With 25 years experience in Green Issues, Julie Hill’s ‘refreshingly, defiantly optimistic’ 'The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World' ‘supplies eye-opening facts about what comes from where that will make the laziest recycler think again' (Daily Mail).
‘an enlightening New Year rummage through the cellars of our lives. If there is a resolution, it is that the house of humanity badly needs a spring clear out' (The Independent )
Nick Hayes is an author, explorer and illustrator. His graphic novel 'The Rime of the Modern Mariner' is an exquisitely illustrated graphic novel and a powerful new poem inspired by Coleridge’s tale. He is a political cartoonist for The Guardian.
‘a thing of soaring beauty' (The Times ), ‘A beautiful morality tale for our times’ (The Observer)