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The Provocateurs: Hard Drugs / When Superbugs Kill

The Provocateurs: Hard Drugs / When Superbugs Kill at The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

The HomePlace Storytelling Brunch: The People of the Sea

WITH COLIN URWIN & RUTH KIRKPATRICK"...the finest storytelling entertainment... With oral tales, songs, real life experience and some good-natured banter about…

Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy

The Provocateurs: AI and Economics / Forensic Jewellery

The Provocateurs: AI and Economics / Forensic Jewellery at The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

The Provocateurs: This Library Needs a DJ / Superhero Porn

The Provocateurs: This Library Needs a DJ / Superhero Porn at The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

Alice Roberts for The Goddess Queen

There was a moment, just over two thousand years ago, when the whole Mediterranean world could have been ruled by a woman.The Roman Republic was crumbling, torn…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Robert Harris for Agrippa

_Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever.

Topping & Company Booksellers, St Andrews

Valeria Luiselli for Beginning Middle End

From the award-winning author of _Lost Children Archive,_ Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous, tender and expansive new novel about family, memory and time.A mot…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Andy Riley & Friends - Spoken Word

A lineup of quality poets and storytellers that’ll make you laugh, cry, and think.

The Hot Box, Chelmsford

Sabrina Ghayour on Persiana One

From the Queen of Middle Eastern cookery, every recipe in _Persiana One_ makes irresistible Middle Eastern flavours easier than ever in one pot, one tray or one…

Topping & Company Booksellers, St Andrews

Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet Chronicles: Louisa Young for The Golden Hours

_THE GOLDEN HOURS_ is the brilliant new instalment in the beloved _Cazalet Chronicles_, started by ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD and now continued by bestselling author…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Sabrina Ghayour for Persiana One

'Sabrina Ghayour's Middle-Eastern plus food is all flavour, no fuss - and makes me very, very happy' - Nigella LawsonFrom the Queen of Middle Eastern cookery, S…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Edinburgh

Bake Off's Mel Giedroyc for The Comeback

Join us to celebrate the brand new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author MEL GIEDROYC - _THE COMEBACK_ - a funny, big-hearted story of second chances._SOME…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

McLellan Book Festival: Sally Magnusson and Kirsty Wark

Welcome to the McLellan Book Festival 2026 - running alongside the McLellan Arts Festival.Sally MagnussonBestselling author, journalist and broadcaster Sally Ma…

Brodick Town Hall, Isle of Arran

McLellan Book Festival: Andrew Greig and Lesley Glaister

Welcome to the McLellan Book Festival 2026 - running alongside the McLellan Arts Festival.Andrew GreigAndrew Greig [https://andrew-greig.weebly.com/] has writte…

Brodick Town Hall, Isle of Arran

Robert Harris: Agrippa

We're delighted to welcome international bestselling author Robert Harris to Penarth this autumn to celebrate the release of his new novel, Agrippa .Few thrille…

Paget Rooms, Penarth

McLellan Book Festival: Jim Crumley

Welcome to the McLellan Book Festival 2026 - running alongside the McLellan Arts Festival.Jim Crumley [http://www.jimcrumleynature.com] has been a full-time Sco…

Brodick Town Hall, Isle of Arran

McLellan Book Festival: Ajay Close

Welcome to the McLellan Book Festival 2026 - running alongside the McLellan Arts Festival.Ajay Closes debut novel, Official and Doubtful [https://ajayclose.co.u…

Brodick Town Hall, Isle of Arran

McLellan Book Festival: Book Festival Finale

Welcome to the McLellan Book Festival 2026 - running alongside the McLellan Arts Festival.Short Stories and Music with Brean Hammond, John Inglis, Tim Pomeroy a…

Brodick Town Hall, Isle of Arran

McLellan Book Festival: M.K. Hardy

Welcome to the McLellan Book Festival 2026 - running alongside the McLellan Arts Festival.Morag Hannah and Erin Hardee are two geeky women who write under the p…

Brodick Town Hall, Isle of Arran

McLellan Book Festival: Amy Liptrot

Welcome to the McLellan Book Festival 2026 - running alongside the McLellan Arts Festival.Amy Liptrot [https://canongate.co.uk/contributors/0000000460171821-amy…

Brodick Town Hall, Isle of Arran

Daniel Susskind for What Should My Children Do?

_"Daniel susskind writes with verve, style and conviction about one of the most important issues of our age" - rory stewart__ "A pathbreaking, thought-provoking…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Edinburgh

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The Appeal's Janice Hallett for The Silent Appeal

Join us in Bath to celebrate JANICE HALLETT as she makes her triumphant return to Lockwood in the much anticipated sequel to her record-breaking bestselling deb…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Yotam Ottolenghi for Simple Too

_It's a noisy world out there, so stop, take a minute or two, listen to the soup bubble or the egg crackle...

Topping & Company Booksellers, Edinburgh

Chef Dara Klein with La Trattoria

Fresh from _Brawn_ and _Trullo_, Celebrated Chef, _Dara Klein_ Has Just Opened Her Own Restaurant, _Tiella_ on Colombia Road to Huge Acclaim and Rave Reviews.Th…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Open Mic Poetry - Evening

8th September 2026 7 - 9pm Open mic poetry event open to all . You are welcome to be part of the audience and listen to the poems. We would love to hear poems f…

Huntingdon Commemoration Hall, Huntingdon

Rachel Morley

The poet John Betjeman coined the phrase 'church crawling' to describe his days out visiting churches.

Topping & Company Booksellers, Ely

Church Crawling with Rachel Morley

Join Rachel Morley, Director of The Friends of Friendless Churches, in Elim Church this September to celebrate her debut book: _Church Crawling_.

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Dear Grace with Claire & Grace Thomson

DEAR GRACE is the next cookbook from beloved chef Claire Thomson (aka @5oclockapron), a warm, wise piece documents a mother's recipes and her daughter's first k…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Christopher de Hamel for The Migrants

In the course of a long career at Sotheby’s and at Cambridge University, Christopher de Hamel has probably handled more medieval manuscripts than anyone alive a…

Topping & Company Booksellers, St Andrews

Vinny Peculiar + special guest Amanda Thorpe at Betsey Trotwood

Vinny Peculiar aka 'the Tony Hancock of pop UNCUT' plays a rare London show at East London's Betsey Trotwood Cellar Bar showcasing songs from the new album 'The…

The Betsey Trotwood, London

Andrew Davies

The undisputed maestro of literary adaptation finally turns his razor-sharp pen on the most challenging subject of all: himself.

Topping & Company Booksellers, Ely

Children's Imaginative Mending Workshop with Celia Pym

Join us for a mending workshop with textile artist Celia Pym, to celebrate the publication of her latest book, _Socks_.Vouchers cover the cost of a copy of the…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Big Toon Reading Challenge September Book Social

A social event to choose new books, create a reading journal and talk about the challenge.Come along to our September Book Social to share your reading progress…

City Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne

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William Boyd for Cold Sunset

Join us to celebrate _COLD SUNSET_ with none other than WILLIAM BOYD, beloved Booker Prize nominee and author of _Any Human Heart!_Cold War Moscow is a place sm…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Fde Events Presents Jah Digga

Jah Digga is a UK rapper and poet from Nottingham, known for his sharp lyricism and soulful storytelling.

The Black Prince, Northampton

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Writing a Winning Story with Jackie Green

Creative writing workshop with short story winner and novelist, Jackie Green. Learn tips on how to have the best chance of writing a winner.

The Pallant Centre, Havant

It’s Not Where You Start

From foster child to foster carer, high-school dropout to university graduate, and Glasgows back streets to Hollywood sets Scott Kyles journey is anything but o…

Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock

Yotam Ottolenghi

_It's a noisy world out there, so stop, take a minute or two, listen to the soup bubble or the egg crackle...

Topping & Company Booksellers, Ely

Mel Pennant for Miss Hortense and the Last Rites

Join Bath Topping & Company Booksellers to celebrate MEL PENNANT for the exciting next installment with the witty, sharp-tongued and ever enticing _Miss Hortens…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

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Victorian Book Group: Rites of Passage by Judith Flanders

Welcome to the book group with a historic twist! Revisit old favourites and discover forgotten classics in this monthly meet-up.

Holst Victorian House, Cheltenham

Tomes: A Big Book reading group

Join us for tomes, a new quarterly reading group for big books - novels over five hundred pages.

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Cooks & Books: Claire Thomson for Dear Grace

A mother's recipes and her daughter's first kitchen adventures away from home.Dear Grace is a warm, wise cookbook written by chef and food writer Claire Thomson…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Edinburgh

Yotam Ottolenghi and Simple Too

An irresistible companion to the era defining ottolenghi simple, we are very happy to welcome back yotam ottolenghi to prove that flavourful, impressive cooking…

Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath

Maggie O'Farrell on Land

Land is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and hi…

Topping & Company Booksellers, St Andrews

Write Time, Write Place: a ten Week Creative Writing Course [ to Wednesdays]

Running weekly as part of a ten-week course (each Wednesday), from 16 September to 18 November, 10.15am to 12.30pmOur popular ten-week course with Chris Woodhou…

Palace Theatre, Paignton

Sam Browne: You'll Miss The Sunset

‘Don’t do that - you’ll miss the sunset.’ Sam Browne’s new poetry show is equal parts hard-hitting and hopeful, with a decent helping of humour in the mix as we…

Band on the Wall, Manchester

Author Event ~ Helen Larder ~ Hosted by League of Ladies WI

Join us for an evening with local author Helen Larder.A fireside chat about Helen's latest book Hidden Toxins including a short, fun creative session "Do you wa…

The Oakwood, Glossop

Scott Lavene - Acoustic Songs & Stories 2026

Scott Lavene is a British singer-songwriter and storyteller whose work blends kitchen-sink realism with dark humour, poetic grit, and a distinctly English sense…

The Water Rats, London