To celebrate the publication of a major new anthology, the distinguished poet,critic, translator, and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky, joins us to read a selection of ...read more

Join the highly acclaimed best selling author of Friday Nights and Second Honeymoon to talk about her new novel, The Other Family. It is a topical and heart-wrenching tale of ...read more

Part of the Topping & Company Year of Picador Celebrated and award-winning poet Robin Robertson comes to Bath for the publication of his fourth collection of poetry, The Wrecking Light. read more

We are delighted to welcome back to Bath award winning journalist and bestselling author John Simpson to discuss his new book Unreliable Sources. In his latest work, Simpson explores the ...read more

"Britain's greatest living nature writer" brings twenty-five years experience to his latest book of reflections on the natural world, A Brush with Nature. A collection of his columns for BBC ...read more

Gooden's first historical book tracks the English language from the source to the present day. It takes you through the significant social and cultural transformations that have shaped its development, ...read more

In Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in 17th-century Mediterranean, Adrian Tinniswood brings to life the fascinating world of the European renegades and Islamic sea-rovers who stalked the ...read more

The World That Never Was is a masterful exploration of the strange twists and turns of history; a true story of dreamers, schemers, anarchists and secret ...read more

Join the hilariously funny Gervase Phinn for lunch. Road to the Dales is a poignant and comic account of growing up in Yorkshire during the '50s read more

61 Hours is Jack Reacher's latest adventure. He's travelling light, without even a coat as protection from the elements, but Reacher is ready for the task in hand... read more

Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award for her best-selling Eve Green, Fletcher's latest, Corrag, is the story of a girl caught up in the 1692 Massacre at Glencoe, ...read more

Published by Canongate as part of their Myths series, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is Philip Pullman's spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus. We are delighted ...read more

The Billy Palmer Chronicles brings to a conclusion the life of Derek Johns' semi-autobiographical character Billy Palmer, who we have grown to love in his previous novels, Wintering and Wakening. ...read more

We welcome Orange prize-winning author Lionel Shriver back to Bath to celebrate the publication of her latest book, So Much for That. read more

Thinking of Answers is a collection of essays by one of our leading philosophers. Don’t miss an exciting event. read more

Chloë Schama's biography of Theresa Yelverton explores the struggle of an ordinary woman in her desperate attempt to release herself from her bigamist husband in Victorian England. Catapulted into ...read more

With New Light for the Old Dark, Sam Willets proves himself a powerfully original voice in contemporary British poetry. Join Sam as he reads and discusses a remarkable debut characterized throughout ...read more

Part of the Topping & Company Year of Picador Parisians is an entertaining collection of the stories of the many ordinary and extraordinary inhabitants of Paris, told with Graham Robb's customary ...read more

The owner of Bath's own Bertinet Kitchen brings us his latest must-have cookery book, Cook, following 50 classic recipes to inspire kitchen confidence and culinary creativity. Join us in a ...read more

John Kay is one of Britain leading economists as well as being a weekly columnist for the Financial Times. In his new book Obliquity he puts forward the theory that ...read more

Mark Cocker introduces his brilliant new edition of J. A. Baker's Peregrine, one of the 20th century’s finest pieces of nature writing. read more

In The Song House, Trezza Azzopardi, author of the bestselling The Hiding Place, takes us into the world of memory and music and speaks of the stories we tell ourselves ...read more

Orange Prize winning author Helen Dunmore reads from her compelling new novel The Betrayed. It is 1952 in war-shattered Leningrad and the doctor Andrei and his wife Anna are struggling to ...read more

We are delighted to welcome Andy McNab back to Bath for the publication of his new book, War Torn. read more

Join Alan Warner, one of the most innovative Scottish writers of his generation, as he reads from his striking new novel Stars in the Bright Sky. The six Sopranos of Warner's ...read more

Join us for an entertaining night of poetry where we will listen to the best poets of this generation as they read from their latest collections. The four poets of ...read more

Sex and Stravinsky, the latest novel from Barbara Trapido, draws together a cast of characters like dancers on a stage; Josh, teaching mime, Zoe, desperate for ballet lessons and Hattie, ...read more

Beloved American author Bill Bryson is joining us to sign copies of his latest book, At Home, in which he studies the history of humans through a domestic telescope. With ...read more

David Mitchell's eagerly awaited new novel is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet. A junior clerk in Japan is tasked with exposing the previous Chief Resident's corruption. He becomes ...read more

Cities is a collection of 60 new poems from award winning writer Elaine Feinstein. A book of travel, it takes us from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tbilisi, New York ...read more

Part of the Topping & Company Year of Picador Winner of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, this witty and daring debut novel is a family saga covering 150 years of ...read more

The Old Spring follows a day in the life of a West Country pub, exploring the hopes and fears of its regulars and staff. Come and celebrate a well-loved British ...read more

Jekka McVicar's passion for herbs is shown in this brilliant new book, Jekka's Herb Cookbook. Learn how to use herbs to their full potential! "The queen of herbs" - Jamie ...read more

Part of the Topping & Company Year of Picador Red Dust Road is the memoir of renowned poet and novelist Jackie Kay. A frank and moving account of her life so ...read more

Part of the Topping & Company Year of Picador Join award winning novelist Emma Donoghue as she discusses her latest book Room. Inspired by cases of kidnapping and confinement from around ...read more

Part of the Topping & Company Year of Picador We are delighted to welcome back award winning poet and novelist Gerard Woodward to discuss his new novel, Nourishment. Set during World War ...read more

The eagerly awaited second volume of Chris Mullin's brilliantly observed diaries, which follows on from A View From The Foothills, focuses on the events of the general election in a ...read more