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SATURDAY 6TH OCTOBERGeorge Courtauld Three Men On A Diet 10.30 – 11.30Prue Leith My All Time Favourite Recipes 10.30 – 11.30Dan Jones and Marina Amaral The Colour of Time 12.00 – 13.00Paula Byrne in conversation with Jonathan Bate Look to Your Wife: From Othello To Twitter 12.00 – 13.00Mike Read The Writing on The Wall 13.20 – 14.10Rowan Pelling Eroticism and Erotic literature 13.20 – 14.10Charles Spencer To Catch A King 14.30 – 15.30Miranda Seymour The Byron Effect 14.30 – 15.30Simon Jenkins Britain’s 100 - Best Railway Stations 16.00 – 17.00Helen Castor in conversation with Jessie Childs Elizabeth I 16.00 – 17.00Alan Johnson In My Life: A Music Memoir 17.30 – 18.30Leanda de Lisle & Nadine Akkerman In Conversation with Jessie Childs

Queens, princesses and spies in the traumatic years of the English Civil Wars

17.30 – 18.30

FESTIVAL BOOKING - TICKETSTo find out more about the Festival and the programme, please visit althorpliteraryfestival.comTickets to the Festival are priced from £12.50.

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OPENING TIMES AND FINDING USThe Literary Festival opens daily at 09.30am and closesat 7.00pm, with the exception of Sunday 7th, when theFestival will close at 6pm.

FESTIVAL ADDRESS Althorp Estate, Northampton, NN7 4HQ.

The Session ScheduleFRIDAY 5TH OCTOBERChristian Hook La Búsqueda 10.30 – 11.30Simon Kerry Lansdowne: The Last Great Whig 10.30 – 11.30Julian Fellowes Writing for Television 12.00 – 13.00Kenneth Baker On the Seven Deadly Sins 12.00 – 13.00The Week Event – David Weeks & Jon Connell The Week…Live! 13.20 – 14.10Helen Rappaport The Race to Save the Romanovs 13.20 – 14.10Bernard Cornwell War of the Wolf 14.30 – 15.30Paddy Ashdown Nein! Standing up to Hitler 1934-45 14.30 – 15.30Peter Frankopan The Silk Roads and the New World of the 21st Century 16.00 – 17.00Rachel Kelly Walking On Sunshine 16.00 – 17.00Julia Gray Little Liar 17.30 – 18.30Dan Snow World War I on its Centenary 17.30 – 18.30James Runcie How to write Historical Fiction workshop 17.30 – 19.00

SUNDAY 7TH OCTOBERLeila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto, 2016, 2018) 10.30 – 11.30Allison Pearson How Hard Can it Be 10.30 – 11.30Marilyn Imrie Rumpole 12.00 – 13.00Tracy Borman The King’s Witch 12.00 – 13.00Algy Cluff Unsung Heroes 13.20 – 14.10Timothy Henry Conscious Capitalism – Tools for Transforming Your Organization 13.20 – 14.10Sarah Churchwell Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream 14.30 – 15.30Sir Chris Bonington Ascent 14.30 – 15.30Bob Champion MBE I’m Champion, Call Me Bob 16.00 – 17.00Alexander McCall-Smith 20th anniversary of No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency 16.00 – 17.00A.N. Wilson Aftershocks 17.30 – 18.30Joanna Grochowicz (Childrens Session) Captain Scott 17.15 – 18.30