Authors at QPBF
Every year the festival welcomes over 80 authors from internationally renowned authors to exciting debut novelists. Explore and download previous festival programmes below to find out more about the artistic programming at the festival.
Discover QPBF 2024
30 August & 1 September 2024Alan Bennett
Elif Shafak
Michel Palin
Mishal Husain
Kate Weinberg & Jason Issacs
Venki Ramakrishnan
Discover QPBF 2023
2 & 3 September 2023Zadie Smith
Sebastian Faulks
Michel Roux
Daniel Finkelstein
Ayòbámi Adébáyò & Stephen Buoro
Choman Hardi
Discover QPBF 2022
17 & 18 September 2022Robert Harris
Howard Jacobson
Victoria Hislop
Colin Thubron
Louisa Young & Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Tessa McWatt & Monique Roffey
Discover QPBF 2021
18 & 19 September 2021Andrew O'Hagan
Elif Shafak & Sunjeev Sahota
Ben Macintyre & Roland Philipps
Annie Mac
Posy Simmonds
Dr. Waheed Arian
Discover QPBF 2019
29 & 30 June 2019Bernardine Evaristo & Guy Gunaratne
Jonathan Coe & John Lanchester
Jon Plowman & Reece Shearsmith
Linda Grant & Sadie Jones
Misha Glenny
Francesca Martinez & Raoul Martinez
Discover QPBF 2018
30 June & 1 July 2018Simon Russell Beale & Nicholas Hytner
Hugh Pym, Rachel Clarke & Adam Kay
Giorgio Locatelli & Russell Norman
Philip Hensher & Joe Dunthorne
Nick Laird & Zadie Smith
Greg Sams