Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
A preview of this year's unmissable festival

Bigger. Better. Even better value. That's the promise of the 2009 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, which takes place over eight days this spring in the historic college of Christ Church. Between Sunday, March 29 and Sunday, April 5, more than 400 writers and speakers from around the world will converge on Christ Church, turning its corridors and quads into a hub of ideas. With prices being held at their 2008 level, and more events promised than ever before, there's no better or more exciting way for book lovers to celebrate the pull of the written word.
The festival kicks off with the historian David Starkey talking about his lifelong obsession with Henry VIII.

Over the following days festival-goers can listen to Mario Vargas Llosa, the distinguished Latin American novelist, talking in the Sheldonian Theatre about his life and career, catch Ian McEwan in conversation, or hear Orange prize-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new book. PD James will accept a lifetime achievement award, and Aravind Adiga, the 2008 Man-Booker winner, will talk about his hugely popular novel The White Tiger.

For more details link here to The Times online.