Over 350 writers flock to the famous university city to discuss affairs literary, political, historical, environmental and culinary - to name just a few - for the eight-day Oxford Literary Festival, hosted by the atmospheric Christ Church College with its Tudor hall and cloisters.
A change of sponsorship from the Sunday Times to the FT Weekend in 2014- a sign of the times we guess.
Visitors can also book to join guided literary walks, lunches and dinner parties with prominent authors. Since 2008, a creative writing course has also formed part of the programme.
2016 will be the 20th Oxford Literary Festival and will feature a special programme to mark the anniversary of this distinguished book festival.
When? Saturday 2 April and Sunday 10 April, 2016
Where? Christ Church, OxfordWho? 2016 - see below
Festival Website? Oxford Literary Festival
Twitter? @oxfordlitfest
Tickets? Festival-goers can buy tickets at the box office in the Norrington Room of the bookshop in Broad Street, Oxford, between 10am and 4.30pm Monday to Friday.
The telephone box office and inquiries line will also be open during the same hours on 0870 343 1001.
Events can also be booked online through this website
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Past Festivals?
IN 2015 - Award-winning novelist, playwright and literary critic David Lodge, the television comic and bestselling author of Round Ireland with a Fridge, Tony Hawks, has also confirmed his event on his latest hilarious book, Once Upon a Time in the West . . . Country.
In the children's and young people programme, there are confirmed appearances by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cressida Cowell and Lauren Child, and veteran author Judith Kerr.
Events previously announced include actress Celia Imrie, Booker Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, multi-award-winning Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh, former Downing Street adviser to Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell, television and radio personalities Paul Heiney and Anita Anand, Nobel-prize-winning scientist Eric Kandel, and children's authors Philip Pullman, and Liz Pichon.
2014 - Michael Morpurgo, Jeremy Paxman, James Naughtie, Brian Sewell, Kamil Shamsie, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Anita Shreve, Ben Mcintyre, Meg Rosoff, Sebastian Barry......
Anne Tyler, Vikram Seth, Michael Morpurgo, Anthony Horowitz, Jeremy Paxman, Tony Benn, Diana Athill, Joan Bakewell, Peter Carey, Robert Harris, William Boyd, AC Grayling, Roger Scruton, PD James, David Hare and Andrew Marr, King Abdullahh II of Jordan, Richard English, David Loyn and Peter Taylor , Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Paul Staines, John Kampfner , Jonathan Coe and Catherine O'Fly, Esther Freud and Helena McEwen, Patience Agbabi, Kate Clanchy and Philip Pullman, Peter Atkins, Sarah Bakewell, Paul Kent and Saul Frampton, Victoria Barnsley, Cathy Galvin and Marcus du Sautoy, Mark Billingham, Colin Dexter and Veronica Stallwood and many more
Volunteers
Every festival need to recruit volunteers , and Oxford is no exception. These are the indispensable people who help so successfully in creating the relaxed atmosphere of the Festival and ensuring that events run smoothly. At Oxford t h days are split into three shifts . If you can offer a minimum of three shifts over the week then the organisers would like to hear from you. Please e-mail your name and address to [email protected] and they will get in touch with you during planning for each year's Festival in January and February
If you are involved in this festival you can update or change details via the organisers page . Authors can list here.