Jane Thynne, Nicolette Jones, David Grylls and Peter Kemp Chaired by James Walton

Jane Thynne, Nicolette Jones, Peter Kemp and Dr David Gryllls go head to head in a fun literary quiz under the eyes of quizmaster and BBC Radio 4 presenter James Walton.

The four will split into two teams and answer questions on prose and poetry including on literary connections, identifying literary extracts, and literary knowledge. There will be two 30-minute sessions with a 30-minute interval when you can mingle with the panel at the pay drinks bar.

Thynne has worked as a journalist for the BBC and national broadsheets and is author of four novels including Black Roses. She is a regular panellist on the BBC Radio 4 literary quiz, The Write Stuff. Jones is children’s books editor of The Sunday Times and a frequent interviewer at the festival.

Kemp is chief fiction reviewer of The Sunday Times and a regular interviewer at the festival. Grylls is associate professor of literature at the University of Oxford and a regular book reviewer for The Sunday Times.

Walton is television critic of the Daily Telegraph and has been writer and presenter of The Write Stuff since 1998.