Literary

Sep 2025

Wed 3

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Richard Armitage

£14

Thu 4

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Ethicurean Life’s Matthew Pennington & Nicola Cradock

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

William Boyd for The Predicament

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Alex Riley for Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places

Fri 5

12:00 pm - 2:30 pm

All the World’s a Stage

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now with Ruby Tandoh

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Michael Rosen for Good Days

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dan Whitlam for I Don’t Want to Settle

Sat 6

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with literary icon Arundhati Roy

Mon 8

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Crafting History and Origami Demo! Clare Hunter for Making Matters: In Search of Creative Wonders

Tue 9

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Ocean Yuong for The Emperor of Gladness

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Ocean Yuong for The Emperor of Gladness

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Tim Spector on Ferment: The Life-Changing Power of Microbes

Wed 10

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Ixta Belfrage and Fusao: Recipes Inspired by Brazil

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Justin Marozzi for Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Surround Sound with Mark Kermode and Jenny Nelson

£13 – £16

Thu 11

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

British Museum Lectures: Ice Age Art Now

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Max Hastings in Bath

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Tracy Borman for The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty

Fri 12

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train with Monisha Rajesh

Sat 13

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Grand Regency Costumed Promenade

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Natalie Haynes: No Friend To This House

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Stanza 25: poetry workshop

Mon 15

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Janette Haslam: Ladies’ Period Costumier

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

The Watsons with Rose Servitova

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Austen Fantasy House Hunt

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Karen Bartlett for The Escape from Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defiance

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Liam Shaw for Dangerous Miracle: A Natural History of Antibiotics

Tue 16

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Jane Austen’s Portrait

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Assembly & Diversity in Jane Austen’s Bath

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Ian McEwan for What We Can Know

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Ben Lippett and How I Cook

Wed 17

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Dye & Colour in Regency Life

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Living with Jane Austen

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

250 years before Jane Austen

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Worlds of Jane Austen

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Seascraper with Benjamin Wood Booker Prize Longlisted 2025

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Elly Griffiths for the Frozen People

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Vince Cable for Eclipsing the West: China, India and the Foraging of a New World

Thu 18

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Murder most Austen

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Dormouse to Donkey Carts: carriages of Jane Austen’s era

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

After Hours; Premiere of Kate Evans’ graphic novel ‘Patchwork’ – a pictorial story of Jane Austen

£10

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Hekate with Nikita Gill, in conversation with Natasha Pulley

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Padella: Iconic Pasta at Home with Tim Siadatan

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Saul David for Tunisgrad: Victory in Africa

Fri 19

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Dressing obstinate headstrong girls: costumes in Jane Austen films

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Dancing with the Stars – Georgian style!

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Regency Fashion in the Fashion Museum Bath Collection

Sat 20

10:00 am - 11:00 am

A Guide to Regency Dress

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Jane Austen’s Contradictory Characters

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Gossip in Jane Austen

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Podkin One-Ear Finale Party

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Place of Tides with James Rebanks

Sun 21

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Sunday Walk: Treasures of Sydney Gardens

Tue 23

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Everything Will Swallow You With Tom Cox

Thu 25

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Torchfire with Moira Buffini

Fri 26

All day

Bath Children’s Literature Festival

Sat 27

All day

Bath Children’s Literature Festival

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Cressida Cowell

Sun 28

All day

Bath Children’s Literature Festival

Mon 29

All day

Bath Children’s Literature Festival

7:15 pm - 9:00 pm

Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys with Mariana Enriquez

Tue 30

All day

Bath Children’s Literature Festival

Oct 2025

Wed 1

All day

Bath Children’s Literature Festival

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

The ‘Renaissance’ Big Read: Utopia by Thomas More

Thu 2

All day

Bath Children’s Literature Festival

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Susie Dent & Len Pennie

Fri 3

All day

Bath Children’s Literature Festival

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Natalie Cassidy: Happy Days

Sat 4

All day

Bath Children’s Literature Festival

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Creative Writing Masterclass with Fleur Hitchcock

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Meet Liz Pichon

Sun 5

All day

Bath Children’s Literature Festival

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Lion Inside 10th Anniversary Celebration

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Magic of Stories with Hugh Bonneville

Tue 7

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Raymond Blanc

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Bloody Awful in Different Ways with Andrev Walden, in conversation with Claire Fuller

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Graham Robb for The Discovery of Britain

Wed 8

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Sarah Howe for Foretokens

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Ben Elton

Thu 9

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Martin Parr for Utterly Lazy and Inattentive

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Thomasina Mier’s Mexican Table

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Role Model with Elle McNicoll

Fri 10

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Dr Julia Shaw for Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Charlie Higson for Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee

Sat 11

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Stanza 25: poetry workshop

Mon 13

All day

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Sabrina Ghayour’s Persiana Easy

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Alex Riley for Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places

Tue 14

All day

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

An Evening with the Boy, the Mole, the Fox & the Horse’s Charlie Mackesy

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Wendy Erskine for The Benefactors

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present

Wed 15

All day

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Mona Awad for We Love You, Bunny

Thu 16

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Nicola Sturgeon for Frankly

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Cursed Daughters with Oyinkan Braithwaite

Tue 21

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Celebrating Black History Month: Lanre Bakare for We Were There

7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Monsterland with Nicholas Jubber

Wed 22

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Peter Ross for Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland

Thu 23

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Jung Chang of Wild Swans

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Celebrating Black History Month: Kehinde Andrews for Nobody Can Give You Freedom

Fri 24

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Celebrating Black History Month: The Mixed-Race Experience with Emma Slade Edmondson and Nicole Ocran

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

It’s Not a Cult with Joey Batey, in conversation with Natasha Pulley

Sat 25

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

A Mr B’s Kids’ Halloween Party!

Mon 27

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Janina Ramirez for Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths the Shaped Europe

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with TJ Klune

Tue 28

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

A Halloween Extravaganza with Eric LaRocca

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Japanese Pantry wth Emiko Davies

Wed 29

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Alison Weir for Queens at War

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Leon Craig for The Decadence

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

In Conversation with Alan Davies

Thu 30

6:15 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Andrzej Sapkowski of The Witcher

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

British Museum Lectures: Nordic Noir

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Olly Smith Wine Tasting

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Moth Dark with Kika Hatzopoulou

Nov 2025

Sat 1

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

11:30 am - 2:00 pm

An Afternoon with Nick Offerman!

Sun 2

5:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with B.K. Borison of First Time Caller

Tue 4

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Chloe Michelle Howarth for Heap Earth upon It

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Wax Child with Olga Ravn

Wed 5

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Sarah Hendrickx asks Could I Really Be Autistic?: Your First Steps to Self-Discovery

Thu 6

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Frankenstein with MinaLima’s Miraphora Mina & Eduardo Lima

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Chef Stephen Harris with The Sportman at Home

Fri 7

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

A Signing with Beloved Children’s Author Oliver Jeffers!

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Angela Harding

Sun 9

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Zadie Smith

Mon 10

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

The Fay Weldon Lecture: The Afterlife of Women’s Writing

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Tom Gilbey’s Thirsty Wine Tasting

Tue 11

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Adalyn Grace of Belladonna

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Zoe McGee on Courting Disaster

Wed 12

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Abir Mukherjee for The Burning Grounds

Thu 13

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Olivie Blake of The Atlas Six

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Silk Roads: A Flavour Odyssey with Anna Ansari

Mon 17

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

An Evening with Jay Kristoff