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at Chester Literature Festival
Books are at the centre of what we do – and they’re at the centre of our building too!
Chester Literature Festival gives us the chance to welcome incredible authors to Storyhouse to talk about their works, both new and old, and share some of the stories and experiences that lay behind them.
Explore our lineup of book events at this year’s festival, and you might just find a new favourite…
Explore the full lineup here
An Evening with Monty Don
Thursday 9 November
From £18
Spend an evening with BBC Gardeners’ World Presenter and the nation’s favourite gardener, Monty Don, as he shares stories from his career and talks about his genre defining new book – The Gardening Book.
Candice Brathwaite
Sunday 12 November
From £16.20
Join the straight-talking and exuberant Candice Brathwaite in conversation with Ngunan Adamu as she discusses her debut YA novel, Cuts Both Ways. Intent on showing the joy to be had in being young, black, and British, Candice will explore her personal and professional journeys on stage.
Natalie Haynes
Tuesday 14 November
From £13.50
Join us for an evening with Natalie Haynes, the bestselling author of Pandora’s Jar and Stone Blind, as she returns to the world of Greek Myth and highlights the role of the goddesses in her new book Divine Might.
Melanie Sykes
Saturday 18 November
From £16.20
Melanie Sykes is an author and speaker with twenty-six years of experience in the entertainment industry. Her acclaimed memoir Illuminated: Autism and All the Things I’ve Left Unsaid discusses her autism diagnosis, and how she believes society needs to completely change its understanding of neurodivergent minds.
Tom Fort: Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
Sunday 19 November
From £4.50
A celebration of the quintessential cornerstone of any village in Britain – the shop – in this case a century-old hardware shop in a beautiful Berkshire village. Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets interweaves the evolution of the shop, its previous owners, and the history of the items it sells to present a delightful study of community
David Olusoga
Sunday 19 November
From £19.80
Professor David Adetayo Olusoga OBE is an award-winninf British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and film-maker. David will be discussing his new book Black History for Every Day of the Year alongside Storyhouse’s very own Chair of the Board, David Watson.
Andi Oliver
Sunday 19 November
From £16.20
Award winning TV Chef and Broadcaster Andi Oliver joins us for an exclusive event to discuss The Pepperpot Diaries, Andi’s long-awaited first cookbook, taking readers on a journey around the melting pot of cultural influences, history and heritage that has uniquely shaped traditional and contemporary Caribbean cuisine.
Niki Segnit
Saturday 25 November
From £9
Following her iconic book, The Flavour Thesaurus – which sold over a quarter of a million copies and made it onto the shelves of Nigel Slater, Ottolenghi, Blumenthal and more – Niki Segnit returns with the follow up, More Flavours, which examines 92 original flavours with over 800 witty and erudite entries.
Joanne Harris: Maiden, Mother, Crone
Sunday 26 November
From £10.80
The internationally acclaimed author of Chocolat (the award-winning novel and film), and many other best-selling novels, Joanne Harris returns with Maiden, Mother, Crone, which gloriously reimagines traditional British folktales into a timely, relevant and powerful new stories.