Anthony Riches

Nuala Calvi

Kate Williams

Mary Lyn Bracht

2019 Festival Debut Novelist

Francis Spufford

Mark Oldfield

Clare Mulley

Duncan Barrett

Abir Mukherjee

Alex vonTunzelmann

Ben Kane

Martin Thomas Lord Gresford

Keith Lowe

Alan Wilkinson

Anthony Riches

Tim Pears

Simon Scarrow

2018 Festival Chairman

Robyn Young

Antonia Hodgson

Victoria Blake

Gary Sheffield

Joy Rhoades

Festival Debut Author

Anne Sebba

Simon James Atkinson Turney

Ruth Downie

Anna Mazzola

2017 Festival Debut Author

Jason Monaghan

Simon Scarrow

2017 Festival Chairman

Imogen Robertson

Elizabeth Chadwick

Dr Matthias Strohn

Lloyd Shepherd

Joyce Meader

Andrew Lownie

2016 Festival Chairman

Prof. Lloyd Clark

Dr Irving Finkel

Manda Scott

Tom Holland

Prof. Tim Thornton

Simon Scarrow

Marc Morris

Adrian Murdoch

Danuta Reah

Clare Mulley

Carol McGrath