Tommy Donbavand
A Visit to Scream Street
Sat Mar 21, 12.30pm, Roysse Room, Guildhall
Tickets £3 per person

A new series aimed at enticing children age 6+ to become independent readers is a comedy horror series that's heavy on the laughs, has bucketfuls of gore and an exciting plotline that continues from book to book. Read more here.

Meet Tommy Donbavand, give yourself a scare and laugh your socks off at this fun-packed (and noisy!) event...

Professor Richard Fortey Professor Richard Fortey is a renowned science writer, with a distinguished career as a senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum. Read more here.

His long and distinguished career at the Natural History Museum led him to write his latest bestselling book Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum. This event is an exciting opportunity to listen to one of the country's foremost communicators of science ideas.

Phil Hammond
Trust Me, I'm (Still) a Doctor
Sat Mar 21, 7.30pm, Amey Theatre, Abingdon
Tickets £12

Dr Phil Hammond has been a doctor and whistleblower for twenty-one years, and still hasn't been struck off. As Private Eye's medical correspondent and presenter of BBC's Trust Me, I'm a Doctor, he's exposed too many scandals and upset too many surgeons. Now aged 46, with varifocals, a swelling prostate and a black bit on his toe that could be a melanoma, he's paranoid about becoming a patient. What will the b*stards do to me?

Read more about this event here.

Tim Saunders
An evening of Cornish language poetry
Thur Mar 26, 7.30pm, Mostly Books
Tickets £3

Tim Saunders is one of the leading poets writing in the Cornish language today. He has also produced poetry and other work in Welsh, Irish and Breton. He is a bard of the Cornish Gorseth and a literary historian.

Tim will be joined by another Cornish poet at Mostly Books on Thursday, March 26 at 7.30pm for this very special evening. Tickets £3.

Alex Milway - Mousehunter!
Sat Apr 4, 12.30pm, Roysse Room, Guildhall
Tickets £3 per person

Young adventurers climb aboard! Be ready for thrills on the high seas with author and illustrator Alex Milway and encounter some extraordinary mice - some with wings, some with trunks, some with claws as big as daggers.

More about this event here. Alex will guide wannabe mouse catchers through how to dream up and draw their own species of mice on Saturday April 4th in the Roysse Room, Guildhall, Abingdon

We are delighted to welcome Kate Summerscale to Abingdon as part of the Abingdon Arts Festival, as she is one of the rising stars on the UK literary scene.

The book tells the dramatic real-life story of a notorious unsolved murder of a three-year old boy in Victorian England - a case that, before now, few people will have heard of, but actually sowed the seeds of the classic country house murder mystery. More here.

2009 Event Reports

2008 Event Reports

Read reports on all the events, including the events with David Melling and Barbara Trapido, Angela Young and Eliza Graham, Judith Blacklock and Roger McGough).