A Roman’s Guide to Wellbeing
Roman Baths Clore Learning Centre Swallow Street, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United KingdomLearn how to improve your wellbeing with the help of tips from the Roman physician Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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Lectures and Talks
Kate Molleson: Sound Within Sound
The Guildhall High Street, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United KingdomJoin author, journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson for a celebration of her radical book, Sound Within Sound, which tells the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical music in the 20th century. She talks to music writer, Hugh Morris. Traversing the globe from Ethiopia and the […]
Claire Douglas & Tim Weaver
The Guildhall High Street, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United KingdomBestselling psychological thriller writers Claire Douglas and Tim Weaver know a thing or two about building tension and creating unexpected twists and turns – they join Gill McLay to chat about their latest suspenseful books, The Wrong Sister and The Last Goodbye. Claire Douglas worked as a journalist for fifteen years, but dreamed of being a novelist since the age of seven. She finally got […]
Viv Groskop: One Ukrainian Summer
The Guildhall High Street, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United KingdomComedian, broadcaster and writer Viv Groskop makes a welcome return to the festival to launch her memoir One Ukrainian Summer, a poignant and often comical account of coming-of-age story of first love in the time after the Cold War and before Putin. A love letter to a unique moment in history. She talks to Joanna Nadin. Autumn 1993. The […]
Harriet Evans: D Is For Death
Waterstones 4-5 Milsom St, Bath, United KingdomA special pre-publication event with bestselling author Harriet Evans as she launches her first novel in her new crime series, writing as alter ego Harriet F. Townson. D is For Death features Dora Wildwood, who, fleeing an unsuitable marriage, runs away to London in 1935 and immediately stumbles on a dead body. It’s Miss Marple meets Cold Comfort Farm meets Fleabag! […]
Ruby Wax: Navigating Tough Times
The Guildhall High Street, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United KingdomMuch-loved comedian Ruby Wax opens up about her unflinchingly honest story of her struggles with mental health and different treatments over the years in I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was. She talks to positive psychologist, Miriam Akhtar (The Little Book of Happiness) and reveals her top tips for navigating life’s toughest moments and trying to stay sane […]
Damien Lewis: Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Guildhall High Street, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United KingdomThe Sunday Times bestselling author and former war correspondent, Damien Lewis, explores the untold stories of six of the most daring escapes pulled off by warriors of the world’s most famous fighting force in the Second World War. His new book, and these stories, form the inspiration behind Guy Ritchie’s film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. ‘Damien […]
RNLI: 200 years of Saving Lives at Sea
BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United KingdomReady for the next talk in BRLSI's 200 series looking at what other great things took place in 1824? In which case it will start with the RNLI.
Workshop: Writing Nature Now – Ecopoetry With Carrie Etter
Bath Central Library 19-23 The Podium, Bath, United KingdomHow do we write about nature now, as we face the climate crisis? Poet and lecturer Dr Carrie Etter addresses how we combine our love of nature with our concerns about the climate crisis in our own poetry. You’ll come away with a new familiarity with the field of ecopoetry as well as the draft of a […]
Catherine Coldstream: Cloistered
The Guildhall High Street, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United KingdomIn Cloistered, Catherine Coldstream tells of the 12 years she spent as a contemplative nun in a strictly enclosed community in the 1990s. Her memoir paints a picture of life in a traditional Carmelite monastery in the Northumberland countryside, with all the beauty and mystery of a world devoted to prayer and work. But all is not […]
George Monbiot
The Guildhall High Street, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United KingdomHow can you fight something if you don’t know it exists? Legendary environmentalist and Guardian columnist George Monbiot takes on the ideology that controls our lives. An iconoclast unafraid to speak truth to power, George Monbiot has been fighting for a better future for our planet for decades. Now, returning to the festival, he joins journalist and […]
Abigail Dean & Stig Abell
The Guildhall High Street, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United KingdomGlobal bestselling author Abigail Dean joins journalist and Times Radio host, Stig Abell, for a chat about their new novels, love of crime fiction and publishing that pivotal second book. Abigail’s debut novel (Girl A) was a global bestselling thriller, which focussed on trauma. Her new novel, Day One, centres around a community, devastated by a school shooting. Stig’s latest, Death In […]