2024 Festival Programme

Thursday 2 May

Sara-Jade Virtue

Deepings Library
at 2pm

Introduction to Publishing An interactive workshop aimed at unpublished debut authors looking to understand how the publishing process works, from typing The...

Carol Atherton

Deepings Library
at 7pm

Carol Atherton is currently Head of English at Spalding Grammar School. Originally from Merseyside, she studied English at Oxford and has taught...

Friday 3 May

Anne Fletcher

Oddfellows Hall
at 10am

Anne Fletcher is an historian and writer. She has worked in heritage for thirty years, at some of the most exciting historic...

Julia Jarman

Oddfellows Hall
at 12pm

Deeping born, Julia Jarman has been a writer for forty years. Formerly a teacher, she started writing for children when her own...

Suk Pannu

Oddfellows Hall
at 2pm

Television writer Suk grew up along the M4, the draughty corridor that connects London to Slough. The son of immigrants, his upbringing...

Sue Hubbard

Priory Church Hall
at 4pm

Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and art critic. Her novels include Depth of Field, Girl in White, the highly acclaimed...

Steve Holt

Deeping Sports & Social Club
at 7.30pm

Steve Holt is a local author whose debut book Passes Down the Line provides a hilarious insight into one-man’s thinking about football....

Saturday 4 May

Murder at Molecey

Spend the day at Molecey Mill and see all 5 authors for £35.
(Does not include Heidi Swain events)

E. C. Bateman

Molecey Mill
at 10am

E. C. Bateman is a novelist and antique jewellery specialist. Having made the questionable decision to marry an auctioneer, she moved to...

Jack Jordan

Molecey Mill
at 11.30am

Jack Jordan is the global number one bestselling author of Anything for Her (2015), My Girl (2016), A Woman Scorned (2018), Before...

Fiona Cummins

Molecey Mill
at 2pm

Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former Daily Mirror show business journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy, where she now teaches...

Heidi Swain

Lilli’s Tearoom
at 3pm

Although passionate about writing from an early age, Heidi Swain gained a degree in literature and flirted briefly with a newspaper career...

Clare Mackintosh

Molecey Mill
at 3.30pm

Clare Mackintosh is a former police officer turned crime writer and the multi-award-winning author of six bestselling novels, including I Let You...

Heidi Swain

Lilli’s Tearoom
at 4.45pm

Although passionate about writing from an early age, Heidi Swain gained a degree in literature and flirted briefly with a newspaper career...

Simon Toyne

Molecey Mill
at 5pm

Simon is the best-selling author of the Sanctus Trilogy: Sanctus, The Key and The Tower. Another action/thriller series begins with Solomon Creed,...

Sunday 5 May

Easy like Sunday morning

Spend the day at Molecey Mill, and see both authors for £20.
(Does not include Literary Lincolnshire event)

Ajay Tegala & Lev Parikian

Molecey Mill
at 10am

Ajay Tegala and Lev Parikian talk to Linda Hill. Ajay Tegala Ajay is a wildlife presenter, author and ranger. His television credits...

Literary Lincolnshire

Deepings Library
at 10.30am

At a loss for something to read? Come along to get some ideas. Peterborough Playgoers present Literary Lincolnshire, devised and directed by...

Tessa Boase

Molecey Mill
at 2pm

Tessa is a freelance journalist, author, lecturer and campaigner with an interest in uncovering the stories of invisible women from the 19th...