
Since 2002, we have hosted an amazing array of speakers from the worlds of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and academia.
Here are some of those speakers from across the years...

Prof Alice Roberts

Rageh Omaar

Clare Mulley

Earl Charles Spencer

Chloe Ashby

Timothy Knapman

Frances Durkin

Iain Dale

Janet Skeslien Charles

Adrian Lukis
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Lissa Evans

Nick Penny

Martin Edwards

Francis Pryor

Anthony Horowitz

Sonia Purnell

Chris Moore
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L.D. Lapinski

Otto English

Beth Lynch

Terry Waite

Angela Harding

Dr Rory Cowlam

Iona Rangeley

Andrew Gant

Hannah Gold

Joanne Harris

Alexander McCall Smith

Dr Anita Sethi
Professor Chris Lintot

Katherine Mezzacappa

Dan Rhodes

Jenny Boyd

Chris Tutton

Corinne Sweet

Sam Sedgman

M.M. Vaughan

David Barrow

Benjamin Zephaniah

Jenny Pearson

Iain MacGregor

Lisa Medved

Nick Bailey

Annie Garthwaite

Steve Cole

Carry Akroyd

Colin Freeman

Jude Simpson

John Wright

Catherine Jacob

Michael Morpurgo

Terry Deary

Raynor Winn

Simon Brett

Abi Elphinstone

Keir Giles

Clare Fuller

Benedict Allen

Clare Hunter

Roger Morgan Grenville
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Clare Harlow

Joshua Seigal

Dr Charles Bennett

Terrie Chilvers

Jonathan Drori

Victoria Hislop

Max Adams

Tom Moorhouse

Alex Grant

Jack Meggitt-Philips