Winter Festival 2025

Sat 22 November – Sun 23 November

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Sat 22 Nov 2025

Philippe Sands & Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Philippe Sands & Juan Gabriel Vásquez | Light in Dark Places
Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway 100 | Megan Hunter, Alex Clark & Tom Crewe
Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith | Dead and Alive
Tom McTague & Marina Wheeler

Tom McTague & Marina Wheeler | Europe – past and future
Brenda Hale

Lady Hale | With the Law on Our Side
Bonnie Lander Johnson

Bonnie Lander Johnson | Vanishing Landscapes
Mick Herron

Mick Herron | The Slow Horses are Back!
Megan Hunter

Megan Hunter | Days of Light
Olia Hercules

Olia Hercules | A Ukrainian Family Story
John Cleese

John Cleese | Fawlty Towers: Fawlts and All
Philip Coggan

Philip Coggan | Mr Trump’s Trade Wars
Kate-Rhodes-Alison-Stockham

Kate Rhodes & Alison Stockham | Thrillers to Chill Us
Larry Lamb

Larry Lamb | From Stage to Page
Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh | Men in Love

Sun 23 Nov 2025

Lyse Doucet

Lyse Doucet | A People’s History of Afghanistan
Tim Gregory

Tim Gregory | Going Nuclear
Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan | What We Can Know
Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson | Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects
John Suchet

John Suchet | An Ode to the Joy of Beethoven
Katie Piper

Katie Piper | Still Beautiful: On Age, Beauty & Owning Your Space
Wendy Cope

Wendy Cope | Collected Poems
Partha Dasgupta

Partha Dasgupta | The Value of The World Around Us
Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes | The Myth of Medea Retold
Saabira Chaudhuri

Saabira Chaudhuri | How We Got Hooked on Plastic
Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon | The Person Behind the Politics
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