Friday 20 October

6pm at Holy Trinity Church – Sir Michael Morpurgo, Tales from Shakespeare

Friday 27 October

10am at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Francesca Stone, CRAFT WORKSHOP:Christmas Garland

3:30pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Jill Dawson and Jo Baker, A Sense of Unease – the craft of creating atmosphere

4pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Tim Hubbard and Victoria Summerley, Secret Gardens of Cornwall and The Cotswolds

5:30pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Jonathan Coe and John Crace, The State We’re In

6pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Cheese Tasting with Marcus Brigstocke

7:15pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Clive Myrie, Everything is Everything

8:45pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Marcus Brigstocke, Stand-up: Cheese and Whine

Saturday 28 October

10am at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Jill Dawson, WRITING WORKSHOP: Have you got what it takes to write a novel?

12 noon at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Maggie Aderin-Pocock The Art of Stargazing

12 noon at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Thomas Curran, The Perfection Trap – and how not to be perfect

2pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Philippa Gregory, Normal Women

2pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Sarah Marsh and Amy Twigg, Tinder Press Debuts’ Proof Party

2:30pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age

4pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Sir Richard Eyre A Life on Stage and Screen

5:30pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Ann Wroe, Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul

6pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Matt Chorley, Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places that Changed British Politics

8pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Garth Marenghi, An Evening of Incarcerat

Sunday 29 October

10am at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Gurinder Kaur Hatchard, CRAFT WORKSHOP: Hooked on Shakespeare

12 noon at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Timothy West CBE, Pru & Me

12 noon at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Linda Grant, The Story of the Forest

2pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Michael Wooldridge and Susie Alegre, AI – what’s the future for the creative industries?

2pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

3:30pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Clare Balding, Isle of Dogs

4pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Damien Lewis, SAS Forged in Hell

6pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Hilary Mantel Remembered, A Memoir of My Former Self: Life in Writing

Events for Families

Friday 20 October 6pm at Holy Trinity Church – Sir Michael Morpurgo, Tales from Shakespeare

Friday 27 October 1:45pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Matt Lucas, The Boy Who Slept Through Christmas

Saturday 28 October 2pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Spooky Halloween Afternoon Activities, Stories and Craft

Sunday 29 October 12 noon & 3:30pm at Crowne Plaza Hotel – Petr Horáček and Nicola Davies, The Star Whale

Sunday 12 November at Stratford Play House – The Gruffalo, The Giant and The Mermaid with Julia Donaldson