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Adele Parks - Sat. 16th 4:30pm
The Sunday Times number one best selling author of Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck, returns with her most dazzling and provocative novel yet.
Alison Weir / Sarah Gristwood - Fri. 15th 12:30pm
Two historians come together at TAL to discuss Dangerous Liaisons : Love and The Tudors
Alan Johnson - Fri. 15th 2:30pm
A fast paced, elegant and warm-hearted debut thriller from award-winning writer and former Home Secretary, Alan Johnson.
Andrew Lownie - Fri. 15th 10:30am
Bestselling author Andrew Lownie makes a welcome return to TAL with his new book, Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile
Dan Jones - Thurs. 14th 6:30pm
An award-winning historian of the Middle Ages and the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets and The Wars of the Roses.
Diego Zancani - Sat. 16th 10:30am
How we Fell in love with Italian Food will undoubtedly enhance your enjoyment of Italian food.
Ed Miliband / Elizabeth Uviebinené / Kerry Potter - Go Big | The Reset - Sun. 17th 8pm
We close the Festival on an optimistic and positive note for the future. Join Ed Miliband, Shadow Secretary for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and award-winning author and columnist at the Financial Times, Elizabeth Uviebinene, as they put forward their vision for how we might live in the future.
Frances Wilson | How to Write A Life Story - Wed. 13th 11am
Whatever your subject, this is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your ideas in a creative and supportive environment.
Frances Wilson - Wed 13th 4pm
Award-winning biographer and critic. She has always been drawn to writing about difficult men, making Lawrence her perfect subject.
Gavin Esler - Sat. 16th 12:30pm
An award winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist. He is the author of five novels and four non-fiction books. Gavin will be In Conversation with former Guardian journalist turned GP, Dr. Tom Templeton.
Ian Dunt - Wed. 13th 7:30pm
On release of the book in hardback in September 2020, it shot straight into the general hardback non-fiction top 20.
Jacky Colliss Harvey - Fri. 15th 4:30pm
An exploration of London as Samuel Pepys would have experienced it himself. With Pepys and his celebrated diary as a guide, Walking Pepys’s London leads the reader from Westminster to Wapping and over the river to Greenwich in a series of five walks.
James Dyke - Sat. 16th 6:30pm
James presents an unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present.
John Crace - Sun. 17th 2pm
Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace makes a welcome return to TAL Festival.
Kate Kennedy - Fri. 15th 6:30pm
The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and then confined in a mental asylum.
Matt Rogan / Kerry Potter - Fri. 15th 8:30pm
A discussion on what needs to happen post-pandemic to reboot and reshape our society.
Michael Pennington - Sun. 17th 6pm
Michael Pennington joins us to talk about his memoir In My Own Footsteps – the life and times of an extraordinary stage career.
Neil Ansell - Sun. 17th 10:30am
The story of one man's journey over a year to one of the UK's key natural habitats, the New Forest of Hampshire.
Pen Vogler - Wed 13th 6pm
Pen Vogler is the author of Dinner with Mr Darcy and Dinner with Dickens.
Richard Dawkins - Sun. 17th 12pm
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies.
Robert McCracken Peck - Sat. 16th 8pm
A beautifully illustrated exploration of Edward Lear’s little-known career as a natural-history artist, with a foreword by David Attenborough.
Roger Moorhouse - Thurs. 14th 2:30pm
This is the first history of the Polish war for almost half a century.
Sally Coulthard - Thurs. 14th 12:30pm
The uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by best-selling nature writer Sally Coulthard.
Simon Akam - Thurs. 14th 8pm
Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century the British Army fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, at considerable cost.
Simon Heffer - Weds. 13th 12:00noon
Elegant, gossipy and bitchy, the diaries are the unfettered observation of a man who went everywhere and knew everybody.
Simon Mayo - Sat. 16th 2:30pm
One of our best loved radio presenters is appearing at TAL to talk about his debut pacey modern-day thriller with a political edge, Knife Edge.
Tom Templeton - Sun. 17th 4pm
We have called our doctors heroes, but what is daily life really like? Discover the truth, hurt, heartbreak, life and death and everything in between.
Tony Long - Wed. 13th 2pm
Die-hard fans of the TV show Midsomer Murders can now tour the picturesque locations where the numerous deadly killings take place in the series, with the help of a new guide- book by Tony Long.
Tango in Thame
'Tango in Thame' brings together three of the most distinctive Tangos by Astor Piazzolla : 'Oblivion', 'Libertango' and 'The Grand Tango'.
Thame Chamber Choir at TAL Festival
A programme of musical pieces based on Climate change, including Elgar, Holst, Palestrina, Schubert, Whitacre and Bob Chilcott.
