What’s On

Join us for a book group discussion led by Erica Morris, Chief Executive of Word Up North. Read the selected novels, talk about them with your friends or regular book…more

Dispenser of medicine for the mind and soul, bookseller Emily Devane of The Grove Bookshop will be providing personalised fiction prescriptions. Head to the book stall at the Clarke Foley…more

In 2001, after receiving 76 rejection letters from publishers, Jasper Fforde’s first novel The Eyre Affair finally made it to bookshop shelves, introducing readers to a remarkable heroine – literary…more

Crime writers Alys Cummings and Tom Hindle both draw inspiration for their books from ‘The Golden Age’ of crime fiction – twentieth-century puzzle mysteries by the likes of Christie, Sayers…more

Join us for a book group discussion led by writer and academic Dr Shabnam Ahsan on The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter – a foundational collection of reworkings of classic…more

Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer at the Guardian, never imagined she would report on a war. In the autumn of 2022, seven months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she…more

Reeta Chakrabarti and Oyinkan Braithwaite join us to discuss their new novels in which family curses of one kind or another have catastrophic effects on successive generations. Journalist and broadcaster…more

Love reading books? Love wittering about books? Then you will LOVE Book Wittery – our first Big Festival Book Club! Read our chosen title, persuade your friends, family and regular…more

This event is now sold out. There is still availability for the second showing on Sat 10 October. Click here for more details. Revealing a never-before-told story from Colditz, the notorious POW…more

Joanne Harris, the bestselling author of thrillers, fantasies and folktales as well as the modern classic Chocolat, discusses her new novel. Sleepers in the Snow is a chilling winter ghost…more

Join us for the announcement of the 8th SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women. Previous winners include Mahsuda Snaith, Saima Mir, Amita Murray and…more