After sessions with Dame Margaret Drabble and Deborah Moggach OBE, there is a meet-and-greet session with local authors in the Omnibus Theatre bar from 8pm to round off the day, surrounded by the exhibition Memories of Fiction.
THE WRITING GAME
11am – 12pm
Looking to find someone to publish your fiction or non-fiction writing? Leading industry experts share all the do’s and don’ts of publication and open up the writing world.
£10 | £8 conc.
WORD FORCE
12.15pm – 1.15pm
Introduced by Michael Glover, critically acclaimed award-winning poet Daljit Nagra and theatre maker and poet Cecilia Knapp talk together about writing and loving poetry, reading and performing.
£10 | £8 conc.
CRIME LAND
2pm – 3pm
BBC arts and Guardian journalist Mark Lawson and Vaseem Khan, author of the Baby Ganesh Detective Agency, forensically explore motives, locations and moralities in the crime they write.
£10 | £8 conc.
THE DARK FLOOD RISES
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Bestselling author Natasha Cooper talks to Dame Margaret Drabble about her writing life and her latest work The Dark Flood Rises.
£15 | £12 conc.
WALLS HAVE EARS
5pm – 6pm
BAFTA-winner Simon Berthon discusses the defence of the realm before and after World War II with award-winning author Henry Hemming and war biographer Clare Mulley.
£10 | £8 conc.
A ROOM IN THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL: DEBORAH MOGGACH OBE
7pm – 8pm
Introduced by co-founder of the Clapham Book Festival Elizabeth Buchan, Deborah Moggach OBE takes us inside her extensive and highly successful writing career.
£15 | £12 conc.
