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.

12:05

South Hall

Horrid Henry – Live

Live script reading by the original cast of Horrid Henry. From Novel Entertainment for families.

12:40

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. (Memoir of a certain event in a particular place and time).
Tim Hewes: Launching Finding Beauty Behind Bars: A Climate Activist’s Enforced Retreat.
Professor Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes): Using Memoir in Fiction. The anthropologist lived in Haida Guaii and was given awards by Japan and has written a novel set in Mexico inspired by life in the field.

13:30

South Hall

Publishing: David versus Goliath – Indie Publishers in the Age of Big Business including the launch of Katie Isbester’s book Secrets of Micro Publishing.

Katie Isbester (Claret Press) and Daniel Li (Sino Books) chaired by James Harrison.

14:15

South Hall

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

14:55

South Hall

Andrey Kurkov: Celebrated Ukrainian author. Chair: James Harrison.

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)