LitFest Elevenses – every day (10 November to 1 December) at 11am LitFest Elevenses is Chester Literature Festival’s morning session. …

Joanna Trollope has been writing for over thirty years and is well known for her enormously successful contemporary works of fiction.  She has been described as one of the most insightful chroniclers and social commentators writing fiction today

David Young talks in conversation with Dr Richard Millington of the University of Chester about his novels, crime in East Germany and the fascinating research and real-life stories behind the Stasi Child series – including world exclusive photos of a daring daylight escape over the Berlin Wall.

Internationally award winning modern re-teling of an ancient myth. Dave is single and turning 30. He’s stood at the bar. Eurydice is a tree nymph. And Bruce Springsteen is on the juke box. A tale of impossible, death defying love told through hair raising spoken word and soaring soul music.

Most books about public speaking don’t tell you what to do when you open your mouth and nothing comes out. And they don’t tell you how to get over the anxiety about performance that most people naturally have. They don’t tell you what to do in the moments when you are made, as a woman, to feel small. They don’t tell you how to own the room. This book does.

The second best reviewed comedy show at the Edinburgh Festival 2018, ‘The Talk Show’ is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about talking by award winning writer and performer Rob Auton.

Chester-born Simon Edge talks about and reads from his new novel, about a gay, pleasure-seeker who – after a near-death experience – realises he may need to change his ways if he is not to end up in hell.

Tap dancers of all ages from Infinity Dance and Theatre School are coming together to take part in The Performers…