Crime

Charlie Higson Interviewed by Triona Adams

Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Blackwell’s bookshop 4:00pm Fri 25 Friday, 25 March 2022 See this event
Mick Herron Interviewed by Triona Adams

A Thrilling Life: the Slough House Series SOLD OUT
Weston Lecture Theatre 10:00am Sat 26 Saturday, 26 March 2022 See this event
Lucy Atkins Interviewed by Simon Mason

Oxford’s Literary Ghosts and Magpie Lane
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Sat 26 Saturday, 26 March 2022 See this event
Sharon Bolton and Catherine Ryan Howard Chaired by Carolyn Kirby

The Pact and 56 Days
St Cross College 2:00pm Sat 26 Saturday, 26 March 2022 See this event
Alan Johnson

The Late Train to Gipsy Hill
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sat 26 Saturday, 26 March 2022 See this event
Val McDermid Interviewed by Emma Smith

The Past is Never Dead: Crime Fiction from Christopher Marlowe to 1979
Sheldonian Theatre 6:00pm Sat 26 Saturday, 26 March 2022 See this event
Mark Grenside Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen

Fall Out: Making Movies Shouldn’t be Murder
Bodleian: Divinity School 2:00pm Tue 29 Tuesday, 29 March 2022 See this event
Oliver Bullough

Butler to the World: How Britain Lost an Empire and Found a Role SOLD OUT
St Cross College 6:00pm Thu 31 Thursday, 31 March 2022 See this event
Alastair Lack

The Oxford of Morse, Lewis and Endeavour SOLD OUT
St John’s College 2:00pm Fri 1 Friday, 1 April 2022 See this event
Jeremy Black Interviewed by Triona Adams

The Importance of Being Poirot
Randolph Hotel: Ballroom 6:00pm Fri 1 Friday, 1 April 2022 See this event
Donna Leon Interviewed by Peter Kemp

Vice-chancellor’s Lecture: Give Unto Others
Sheldonian Theatre 6:00pm Fri 1 Friday, 1 April 2022 See this event

Festival information:

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

Every literary festival stays in an author’s mind for slightly individual reasons. I shall remember the Oxford festival for: - the size of the audience: at the top end of the range - their intelligence – this makes a huge difference for a speaker. In the Oxford audience I encountered many experts in the field my book covered and even one of the ambassadors I’d quoted - the beauty and the grace of the place itself – incomparable - the willingness of my hearers to buy books afterwards; I’ve never sold more.

A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation; a lively informed and tolerant audience; privileged access to the great treasures of the Bodleian, and finally, wonderfully interesting dinner companions to help me conclude the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

Often as an author, I only occasionally get to meet the public who buy and read my books. The Oxford Literary Festival was a special opportunity for me and certainly one of the highlights of my career – it was an honour I will never forget.

I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions.

I loved the whole atmosphere of the Oxford Literary Festival. From breakfast, alongside some of the attendees, who were talking books with each other a mile a minute, to the public event at The Sheldonian where everyone was lively and engaged – I felt I had arrived in a kind of literary heaven.

The night in Oxford was the most beautiful event I have ever done. Not just the spectacular setting (of the Sheldonian), but an unforgettable evening.