11:00

North Hall

Official Opening

The fair will be opened by Richard Ovenden, the Head Librarian the Bodleian Library

11:25

South Hall

Paterson Joseph

The actor, author and Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and now Just a Minute personality, Paterson Joseph, will be interviewed by Richard Ovenden about his latest book 10 Children Who Changed the World.

12:20

South Hall

Memoir in all its variety

Chair Linda Proud, author of the Botticelli Series.

Diana Bell: Launch of her latest book Life Stories in Words and Pictures.
Ray Foulk: Latest paperback Last Great Event. A memoir of a certain event – Jimmi Hendrix’s last big concert.
Tim Hewes: A memoir related to an issue. A launch of Finding Beauty Behind Bars: A Climate Activist’s Enforced Retreat. A Wantage priest on his time in prison for protesting with Just Stop Oil.
Professor Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes): Using memoir in fiction. The anthropologist lived in Japan and Mexico and has been given awards by Japan and has written a novel set in Mexico inspired by her life in the field.

13:20

South Hall

Publishing: David versus Goliath – Indie Publishers in the Age of Big Business including the launch of Katie Isbester of Claret Press book Secrets of Micro Publishing: Katie Isbester (Claret Press) and Daniel Li of Sino Books.

14:00

South Hall

Crime Panel: Crime but no punishment
Steve Lunn (The Price of Dormice), Peter Tickler (The Tickler’s Jam Murders, Death in the Sea Pool) Julie Anderson (A Death in the Afternoon) and Sylvia Vetta, (launching her feminist crime thriller Reptiles. )

14:50

South Hall

Andrey Kurkov: Celebrated Ukrainian author.

The escapades of Andrey Kurkov’s loveable eccentrics provide a frame for an intriguing portrait of Lviv in the 2000s

15:40

South Hall

Poetry Slam. Chair: Niall Munroe (Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre)

Featuring Michaela Brady and Daniel Maani, with headline readings by Laura Theis and Zoe Brown chaired by Niall Munro (Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre)

11:45

North Hall

John Mair. The Road to Eldorado (Non- Fiction)

A surprise Caribbean treat is promised to accompany it.

Table N46

12:00

North Hall

Walton Street Writers. Their latest anthology of short stories.

Table S33

12:30

North Hall

Timothy Ades. Poetry in Translation: Autumn Fire

(Ricarda Huch) and Morgenstern’s Magic and Ringelnatz the Rhymer. (Translated from German)

Table N32

12:50

North Hall

Dennis Hamley will talk about his novel Spirit of the Place and share his long experience as an author and lecturer in Creative Writing.

Table S12

13:15

North Hall

Daniela Nicolaescu. Hyperboréen (2024)

(French-English) follows a modern day Alice in Wonderland across Romania, Italy, France, and the UK. (poetry)

Table N57

13:30

North Hall

Dr Martyn Pritchard. His novel A Painkiller to Die For was inspired through the author’s first-hand exposure to the complex decisions that surround taking novel medicines through to testing in humans.

Table S64

13:50

North Hall

Richard Walker: will relaunch his novel A Curious Child first published in 1989. It has a transgender woman at its centre. In the eighties, such stories were almost never told with empathy or depth.

Table N09

14:15

North Hall

Korky Paul: The internationally celebrated illustrator: One Snowy Christmas with an exciting workshop. (Suits children under 9)

Table N01

14:45

North Hall

VJ Hooker: Award winning children’s illustrated book author and founder of Wriggly Readers World will engage with young children in an interactive experience.

Table N67

15:15

North Hall

Dr. Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu: Memories of Journeying through Life: Encounters and Happenings, Encounters with Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Noam Chomsky etc. (Non -Fiction)

Table N54

15:30

North Hall

Tristram Fane Saunders: Pocket magazine launch: The Little Review.

Table S49

15:45

North Hall

Andrew Taylor: His first novel One Lie Too Many, set in fast changing post war Britain.

Table S34