Books & Literature in Stratford-upon-Avon

Dungeons and Dragons Games Caf

Bring your friends into a world of magic, mayhem and mystery this Halloween with our talented team of Dungeon Masters.

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Catherine Heaney and Bernard O'Donoghue - My Father Seamus Heaney

Join us to celebrate the life and legacy of the poet Seamus Heaney and the recent publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney, a landmark collection spanning all…

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Andrew Davies - An Unsuitable Boy: a Life in Scripts

The man behind our favourite period dramas - from Pride and Prejudice to Bleak House - has finally turned his pen on the most challenging subject of all: himsel…

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Dame Margaret Hodge - Battle Axe: a Memoir

Born in Alexandria in 1944 to Jewish parents from Germany and Austria, the politician and life peer arrived in England aged four - stateless, foreign, and an ou…

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Justin Anderson - Wilderness Songs: Nature's Hidden Sounds

The wildlife documentary maker (BBC Planet Earth series, National Geographic, Discovery Channel) as he discusses his quest to track down the most unusual and im…

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Drop in and Do - Halloween Craft!

It's Deja-BOO! Drop in and Do is back this Autumn with free arts, crafts and face-painting with a spooky twist.

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Nicola Baker - Saving Snowflake: a Whistledown Farm Adventure

Journey to Whistledown Farm for a heart-warming adventure with the star of Our Farm on the Dales.

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Alexei Sayle - How I've Tried to Change the World

Born in working-class Liverpool in 1952 to devoted members of the British Communist Party, Sayle has spent a lifetime walking down the middle of the street shou…

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Dungeons & Dragons

Get ready for a spooktacular adventure with your friends! Come and try Dungeons & Dragons with our talented team of Dungeon Masters.

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Bella Mackie - Claws Out!

The Sunday Times bestselling writer (How to Kill Your Family) brings us her new, deliciously wicked thriller.

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Peter Ormerod and Alexander Larman - David Bowie: Starman

Bowie, arguably one of the biggest influences on music in the 20th century, died 10 years ago this year. Always changing and developing, his vision was unique.

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Lucy Porter - Middle Aged Women Get Sht Done

We all know that middle aged women are the glue that binds society together. They are invincible, all-powerful, and you mess with them at your peril.

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Sir Jonathan Bate - the Garden: our 4,000 Year Quest for Paradise

The garden has always been far more than a place to grow things. It is where we work out our relationship with the natural world, and our longings for beauty an…

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Matt Baker - My Dogs and Me

From training young sheepdogs as a boy on the dales to famous Meg on Blue Peter, the life of the Countryfile and former The One Show presenter has always been s…

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Jeannette Nelson - Finding a Voice

The leading voice coach joins us for a discussion about her fascinating career and the power of dialogue.

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Zak Simmonds-Hurn

Join Phoenix Comic artist Zak Simmonds-Hurn, who draws Know Your Monsters, Dragon Guard and Legacy, for a fun-filled workshop.

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Clare Clark and Roisin Maguire - Novels and Landscape

Two novelists bring us books exploring rural communities under threat, and explore how setting can be the main character in a piece of fiction.

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Matthew Rice - a Year in the Garden

The artist and designer behind some of Emma Bridgewater's instantly-recognisable designs brings us his new guide to gardening and enjoying nature throughout the…

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Gus Casely-Hayford - Objects and Us

The curator and the Director of new V&A East takes us on a journey through objects both commonplace and exceptional from all corners of the world, as he discuss…

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David Larbi - Frequently Happy

The TikTok poetry sensation brings us his bestselling guide to finding the joy - no matter how big or small - in every moment.

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The Booklovers'wine Club - Matching Wine to Books About Food

A red Burgundy with anything by Julia Child? A crisp white paired with Anthony Bourdain? Our ever-popular wine and book club is back with a twist.

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Greg James - All the Best for the Future

A warmhearted love letter to the lost art of having fun, the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show host and Radio 4 Rewinder presenter explores the ways he thought his lif…

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Myles Mcleod and Evgenia Golubeva - Fairytale Fiasco!

Join author-illustrator Evgenia Golubeva and author Myles McLeod, the duo behind the Fairytale Fiasco books, for a lively hour of stories turned upside down.

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Theatre Workshop: Playbox - Theatre of the Unexpected

This Halloween, join Playbox Theatre for an exhilarating, immersive theatre experience where imagination takes centre stage.

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Gail Crowther and Paul de Zulueta - Private Lives: Marylin Monroe and Daphne Du Maurier

Two biographers delve into the intricacies and nuances of the personal lives of two very different, very well-known women - and discuss how what goes on behind…

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English Musical Theatre Orchestra - Simply Sondheim

The composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th century theatre, credited with reinventin…

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Greg Wise - Grief Talking

The acclaimed actor and author explores how we can navigate the chaotic, messy journey of bereavement.

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Bonnie Garmus - Peck & Peck

The author of the wildly successful Lessons in Chemistry (you saw her here first!) brings us her latest novel, the tale of a young man whose life is turned upsi…

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James Aldred - a Wagon in the Woods

When the Emmy-winning wildlife film-maker and author of Goshawk Summer (winner of the 2022 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing) tracked down an old horse-drawn…

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My One and Only - Which Novel Will Be Left on the Shelf?

Imagine a law is passed that says you can only have ONE novel on your bookshelf? In the lead-up to the Festival.

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Neill Cameron - Donut Squad

The Donut Squad are back from the future. A future where NO DONUTS ARE ALLOWED! Can the gang stop this futuristic nightmare from coming to pass?

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Kit Yates - You Don't Know What You're Missing

We all like to think we're making decisions based on reality, but in fact we are almost always working from incomplete information.

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Sir Robin Niblett - After America

When Donald Trump returned to the White House, he upended the post-1945 Pax Americana which had underwritten 80 years of global stability and opportunity.

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Iain Dale - Have I Said Too Much?

The veteran LBC broadcaster and political commentator has led a life full of incident and success, but also had some very public failures.

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Mary Portas - I Shop Therefore I am

In the 1990s, Harvey Nichols was the most exciting shop in Londin. Head behind the shop window with the Queen of Shops, as she brings us her memoir of revitalis…

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John Boyne - the Weight of Angels

Join the internationally bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as he imagines an alternativee future for Oscar Wilde.

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Dr Louise Newson - the Power of Hormones

For decades, three vital hormones in the female body - progesterone, estrogen and testosterone - have been misunderstood.

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Rob Wilkins - the Discworld Bestiary

Step inside the wondrous mind of Terry Pratchett at this event celebrating a new exhaustive illustrated guide to the creatures and critters of Discworld.

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Sunday Newspaper Review - With Stephen Sackur. Robin Niblett and Lucy Porter

Times Radio's Stephen Sackur, political scientist Robin Niblett and comedian and Radio 4 favourite Lucy Porter join us to leaf through the Sunday papers.

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Workshop: Sonia Leong - Drawing Manga

A must for Manga fans! Learn the basics of drawing and designing your own Manga characters with flair in this workshop with comic artist and graphic novelist.

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Nick Harkaway - the Taper Man

The bestselling author returns to the shadow world of his father, John Le Carre, for a new George Smiley adventure. 1965.

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Stephen Sackur - Hard Truth: Investigations That Shook the World

Is it enough to bear witness and move on? What does impartiality mean when the truth itself is drowning in a sea of disinformation and lies?

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Workshop Clare Clark - Crackling the Cryptic Crossword

Can you never quite crack the cryptic crossword? Do the clues leave you bemused and befuddled? If so, help is at hand!

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Simon Garfield - the Pen: a Human History

The pen is our oldest tangible connection between an individual mind and the world at large, but the pen's own story is just as eventful as anything it has writ…

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