Literary

Aug 2025
- Thu 21
  - 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
    
    The Frankenstein Experience
    
    £24
  - 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
    
    The Frankenstein Experience
    
    £24
- Sat 23
  - 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
    
    The Frankenstein Experience
    
    £24
  - 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
    
    The Frankenstein Experience
    
    £24
- Tue 26
  - 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
    
    The Frankenstein Experience
    
    £24
  - 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
    
    The Frankenstein Experience
    
    £24
- Wed 27
  - 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
    
    A Particularly Nasty Case: A Murderously Funny Evening with Adam Kay
- Thu 28
  - 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
    
    The Frankenstein Experience
    
    £24
  - 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
    
    The Frankenstein Experience
    
    £24
- Sat 30
  - 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
    
    The Frankenstein Experience
    
    £24
  - 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
    
    The Frankenstein Experience
    
    £24
Sep 2025
- Mon 1
  - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    
    East & Southeast Asian Heritage Month Celebration
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Stephen Grosz of The Examined Life discusses Love’s Labour
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    A Guide to Sobriety: No Lost Causes Club with Lauren McQuistin
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Mrs Dalloway: the centenary year – art, Modernism & war
- Tue 2
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    James Fox for Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Arifa Akbar for Wolf Moon: A Woman’s Journey into the Night
- Wed 3
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Mariella Frostrup & Belles Berry for Menolicious
  - 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
- Tue 18
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Joe Sacco of Footnotes in Gaza and Palestine
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Chloe Gong of These Violent Delights
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Skye McAlpine’s Christmas Companion
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with M.R. Carey and Claire North
- Wed 19
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Jean Sprackland for Night Vision
- Thu 20
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Jeanette Winterson for One Aladdin Two Lamps