Walking

Bodleian Guides

Children’s Stories: A Family Walking Tour
Weston Library 1:00pm Sat 26 Saturday, 26 March 2022 See this event
Alastair Lack

Literary Oxford with Alastair Lack SOLD OUT
St John’s College 2:00pm Sat 26 Saturday, 26 March 2022 See this event
Bodleian Guides

Children’s Stories: A Family Walking Tour
Weston Library 1:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Alastair Lack

Oxford Poets with Alastair Lack SOLD OUT
St John’s College 2:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Bodleian Libraries

Old School Tours
5:30pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Alastair Lack

Literary Oxford with Alastair Lack SOLD OUT
St John’s College 2:00pm Tue 29 Tuesday, 29 March 2022 See this event
Bodleian Libraries

Old School Tours
5:30pm Tue 29 Tuesday, 29 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
Duncan Minshull and Will Self

Where My Feet Fall: Going for A Walk in Twenty Stories SOLD OUT
Blackwell’s bookshop 6:00pm Fri 1 Friday, 1 April 2022 See this event
Bodleian Guides

Children’s Stories: A Family Walking Tour
Weston Library 1:00pm Sat 2 Saturday, 2 April 2022 See this event
Bodleian Guides

Children’s Stories: A Family Walking Tour
Weston Library 1:00pm Sun 3 Sunday, 3 April 2022 See this event
Alastair Lack

Literary Oxford with Alastair Lack SOLD OUT
St John’s College 2:00pm Sun 3 Sunday, 3 April 2022 See this event

Festival information:

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.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

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.

The Oxford Literary Festival has in my mind become the leading literary festival of the year. The organisation, the roster of speakers, the ambience and the sheer quality of it all is superb. May it now go from strength to strength each year stretching its ambition more and more. I believe it will.

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

It was a privilege for me to visit the festival to receive the Bodley Medal. As an incidental blessing I saw Oxford at its most mysterious and atmospheric. It was a day of piercing cold and as I walked through the twilight from the Sheldonian to Christ Church, the streets were empty and the whole city was shutting itself away. Christ Church was silent except for the footfall of unseen persons around corners and the sounds of evensong creeping from behind closed doors. For the first time I understood thoroughly the power of college ghost stories.

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.