Join us as leading environmental campaigner and Britain's first Green MP Caroline Lucas, shares her new book - Another England - in conversation with Max Porter; a thought-provoking event that will delve deep into our national history and make a bid to reclaim Englishness from the Brexit cheerleaders for exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia.

London’s award-winning literary salon makes a welcome return to Bath.

We’re thrilled to celebrate the launch of Manny and the Baby, a brilliant new book set in modern day Bath and the 1930s London jazz scene, with a special evening of music and conversation.

From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time.

Join writers Judith Robinson and Scott Pack as they travel the globe in search of great works of world literature.

Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations.

Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones has an unquenchable passion for the Renaissance period and his ‘pearl of a book’ (The Times) is a compelling tale of innovation in a world of sex, piety, revolution and discovery.

Writing Space is a peer-led Creative Writing Group that welcomes writers of all abilities, providing a regular chance to experiment and express yourself through the written word.

With two thousand years of history and a host of strikingly-designed streets and buildings, Bath is a rich treasure trove for curious minds.

Four Little Adults is a unique, modern story about the limits of love and grown-ups with growing pains.

Screening of The Associate with Whoopi Goldberg will be followed by a talk with Ellen E Jones, Guardian journalist, BBC Radio 4 broadcaster and author of Screen Deep: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world.

Jeremy Bowen, BBC International Editor, has reported on the Middle East for more than 30 years and is unqiuely placed to explain its complex past and current troubled present, helping to shed light on the diverse political, cultural and religious differences.

Whether you are living with recent loss or were bereaved long in the past, this gentle, flexible and no-pressure workshop will offer practical tools to get you through the day (and night) when you are grieving.

The acclaimed economic commentator and journalist wants to tell us why everything we know about capitalism is wrong.

The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of 4 daughters, oscillates between light and shadow.

Join historian Alice Loxton on a scathingly witty romp through a Georgian London at the height of a golden age of scandal as viewed through the acid pens of its leading caricaturists – Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank.

In The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors and disappointments through a new reading of Hobbes’ classic work.

Writing Space is a peer-led Creative Writing Group that welcomes writers of all abilities, providing a regular chance to experiment and express yourself through the written word.

Come and experience the modern practice of an ancient art – storytelling in all its forms.

Felix Yaniewicz (1762-1848) was a Polish-Lithuanian violin virtuoso and composer who settled in Britain and co-founded the first Edinburgh music festival. Josie Dixon tells his story.

Acclaimed historian and filmmaker Michael Wood joins us to look at the life and times of one of the world’s greatest poets, Du Fu, whose work has a timeless relevance in the same way as that of Shakespeare and Dante.

If you think you already know the story of Charles Dickens’ life, then you might want to think again.

With two thousand years of history and a host of strikingly-designed streets and buildings, Bath is a rich treasure trove for curious minds.

Have you always wanted to write but don’t have time and / or don’t know where to start?

A one day celebration of brilliant music, amazing songwriters and local talent in a very special setting. 

With two thousand years of history and a host of strikingly-designed streets and buildings, Bath is a rich treasure trove for curious minds.

Once you’ve had your book idea or written your novel, where do you go next to get editorial and professional guidance, and then launch – or revive – your career as an author?

Bringing setting alive in your writing . This is an exciting opportunity for writers of all levels to spend time at The Holburne Museum and Cleveland Pools, two inspirational Bath venues, connecting both with your surroundings and your fellow participants.

Through the authentic voices of other young bodies undergoing metamorphosis, Paul B. Preciado retraces the stages of his personal transformation through a poetic journey in which life, writing, theory and image merge freely in the search for truth.

Now a successful filmmaker, Lorna Tucker (Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist; Amà) was once a teenage runaway sleeping rough on the streets of London.