Round-up of the best books and authors at the Oxford Literary Festival

22 March 2010

The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival is running all week. Join the authors to discuss the inspiration for their latest books. We have brought together some of the more well known authors who will be at events during the next seven days. Some books are being launched at the festival and there may not be availability when you attempt to do a price comparison search. However if this is the case most titles are available through the links, where it is still possible to obtain prices comparison and pre-order.

Why not try adding the title to our pricewatch service and see if you can save even more money, as titles do tend to get cheaper the long they have been available.

To book to attend any of the events at the festival it is no longer possible to book online but some availability remains. Telephone the box office on: 0870 343 1001

Events

Phillip Ball – The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
Brian Moore – Beware of the Dog – Rugby's Hard Man Reveals All
William Nicholson – How Should We Represent Teenage Sex - Rich and Mad
Martin Bell – A Very British Revolution
Patricia Fara – Science: A Four Thousand Year History
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall- The Ministry of Food: Thrifty Wartime Ways to Feed Your Family Today
David Dimbleby – The Seven Ages of Britain
AC Grayling – Thinking of Answers: Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
Andrew Rawnsley - The End of the Party: The Rise and fall of New Labour
John Le Carre – A Most Wanted Man – Winner of the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence
Shirley Williams – Climbing the Bookshelves
Nick Barratt – Tracing Your Personal Heritage - Nick Barretts Guide to Your Ancestors Lives

The Lost Man Booker
An opportunity to hear the shortlist announcement and discussion of the selected books for the Lost Man Booker Prize. The prize came about to acknowledge books that missed out on the prize in 1970, due to the decision in 1971 not to allow books that were published outside of the year to be selected. Presented by Rachel Cooke, Katie Derham, and Tobias Hill

More talks

AS Byatt – The Children's Book
David Willetts – The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took their Children's Future and Why They Should Give it Back
Rose Tremain – Trespass
John Polkinhorne v David Papineau –Debate: Does Science Reveal the Mind of God?
Ian McEwan and Craig Raine (A Reading for Arete)  - Raine discusses his debut novel 'Heartbreak', and Ian McEwan will discuss his new book 'Solar'.
Ben Fogle – Race to the Pole
Will Hutton – Them and Us: Politics, Greed and Inequality – Why We Need a Fair Society
Phillip Pullman – Teen Interview
Martin Amis – The Pregnant Widow
Lionel Shriver – So Much For That
Joanne Harris – Blue Eyed Boy
Hilary Mantell – Wolf Hall 2009 Booker Prize Winner
David Kessler – The End of Overeating- Taking Control of Our Insatiable Appetite
Mike Perham - Sailing the Dream – A description of this 16 year old boys single round the world sailing epic!