24-26 April 2026
Friday 24th
Claire Adam
Love Forms
7pm
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Claire Adam’s latest novel, Love Forms, is an evocative tale of love and loss. A mother must give up her baby in a cloud of shame and secrecy. After forty years, a woman gets in touch — could she be her long-lost daughter?
Claire Adam’s first novel, Golden Child, won the Desmond Elliott Prize, the McKitterick Prize, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and was named one of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels that Changed the World’.
Saturday 25th
Adam Weymouth
Lone Wolf
12pm
With burning curiosity for the wild, Adam Weymouth walks the trail of a pioneering wolf, examining the challenges along Europe’s ‘faultlines’: migration, intolerance, climate change. Lone Wolf was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and serialised on BBC Radio 4.
Adam Weymouth's first book, Kings of the Yukon, won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year and the Prix Paul-Emile Victor. The National Writing Centre names him as one of ten writers shaping the UK’s future. His writing is widely published, including in Granta, The Atlantic, The Observer and the BBC.
Fran Fabriczki
Porcupines
2.30pm
Fran Fabriczki’s witty debut is named by Vogue among the top reads of 2026. Porcupines is a sharp and funny mother-daughter story set in LA with roots in Soviet Hungary. Published this April, the novel is already reviewed as ‘an instant classic’. Fran Fabriczki’s writing has won the Curtis Brown Award.
Andrew Lownie
Entitled
5pm
The explosive biography of Andrew-Mountbatten Windsor, by the renowned author and journalist Andrew Lownie, delves deeper into the former prince’s links with Jeffrey Epstein. Entitled is ‘devastating’ say The Times and The Independent.
Andrew Lownie’s books include the prize-winning Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess, and the top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Sunday 26th
Lindsay Galvin
The Elixir
11am - Children’s Event
Expect the unexpected with the author of Darwin’s Dragons and The Call of the Titanic. Lindsay Galvin’s forthcoming novel, The Elixir, features a witchfinder and a young Isaac Newton in 17th century England.High stakes and heartwarming friendships.
Chris van Tulleken
Ultra-Processed People
12.45pm
One of the BBC’s leading broadcasters, Doctor Chris van Tulleken is also a Professor of Global Health. His Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, Ultra-Processed People, reveals everything the food industry doesn’t want you to know: what ultra-processed food is really doing to our bodies and minds.
Chris van Tulleken works with UNICEF and the World Health Organization on nutrition and the global food system. His broadcasting has won two BAFTAs.
Seth Insua
Human, Animal
3pm
Seth Insua’s moving debut about a conflicted farming family's struggle is shortlisted for the Discover Award in this year’s British Book Awards. A father-son tale of generational tensions, Human, Animal is a delicious ode to country life.
Human, Animal was featured on BBC Radio 2.
Workshops 2026
Life Writing Workshop
Saturday 26th April ~ 10.45am
Everyone has a story to tell. In this two-hour workshop, led by editor and creative writing tutor Lucy Popescu, you’ll explore how to transform your experiences and memories into writing that resonates.
This is an opportunity to consider the moments that have shaped you, the people you care about, and the wider world. Whether you want to create a journal of treasured memories, develop your creative writing, or preserve your story for future generations, this session will open up new avenues of reflection.
We will explore:
Using the senses and memory in creative writing
Enriching life writing through sensory language
Developing voice and style
Introspective prompts that deepen self-reflection.
Open to all levels – from beginners to more experienced writers – this workshop encourages experimentation and exploration. You’ll learn practical approaches to life writing, with opportunities to write, share work, and receive feedback in a supportive and fun environment. The aim is to inspire, encourage and build confidence.
Lucy Popescu is a writer, creative writing tutor and editor with many years of experience. She teaches at City Lit in London and runs a regular fortnightly writing group on Zoom. She writes, reviews books and curates literary events. Lucy is Chair of the Authors’ Club and its Best First Novel Award.