Upcoming events and appearances

Nicolette Jones is a regular contributor to radio and television, gives talks and lectures, and appears as a speaker, panellist or chair at literary events and festivals. Upcoming appearances are listed here.

• March 2010
  • 20 March to 28 March. Christ Church College Oxford. Directing young people's programme at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. Programme includes Anthony Horowitz, Louise Rennison, William Nicholson, Meg Rosoff, Mal Peet, Geraldine McCaughrean, Philip Reeve, Louisa Young, Steve Cole, Cressida Cowell, Frank Cottrell Boyce (Blue Peter event), Tim Pigott-Smith and Andrew Lane with John Walsh (on Sherlock Holmes), plus how to get a children's book published; children's cookery session; storytelling workshop; cricket event; teen sailor Mike Perham; picturebook events and more. See link for full details.
  • 20 March Oxford Literary Festival. Event 103 FANTASTICAL TRUTHS: (Christ Church, Marquee) For 10+ Malorie Blackman, Frances Hardinge and Philip Pullman discuss what fantasy can tell us about reality. Chaired by Sunday Times children’s books editor Nicolette Jones.
  • 27 March St Hilda's College at the Oxford Literary Festival. Event 804. BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL MAN …(10am McKenna Room) Journalist Christine Finn, an expert on Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, and on J B Priestley's wife, Jacquetta Hawkes, discusses wives and mothers in history and fiction with Gaynor Arnold, author of Girl in a Blue Dress, a novel whose heroine is loosely based on Charles Dickens's wife. Chaired by Nicolette Jones, Chair of the St Hilda’s Media Network
  • 27 March St Hilda's College at the Oxford Literary Festival. Event 862 WOMEN IN THE MEDIA (4pm) St Hilda's graduates Sarah Baxter, Bettany Hughes and Sue Lloyd-Roberts consider the opportunities and hurdles for women making careers in the press and in television. Chaired by Nicolette Jones
  • 27 March St Hilda's College at the Oxford Literary Festival. HISTORY AND FAMILY IN FICTION: (6pm Blue Boar Lecture Theatre) Victoria Hislop, Anita Mason, and Adèle Geras discuss their use of the past, both personal and historical, in their fiction. Chaired by Nicolette Jones
  • 28 March Oxford Literary Festival. Event 963 MACMILLAN PICTURE BOOK PARADE: Family event (4pm JCR). Three Macmillan illustrators Chris Riddell, Axel Scheffler and Catherine Rayner, discuss the process of making picture books and why they matter. Chaired by Sunday Times children’s books editor Nicolette Jones (70)
• April 2010
  • 20 April London Book Fair. 11.30am. Discussion of children's books cover design, chaired by Nicolette Jones
  • 21 April London Book Fair. 1pm Discussion of illustration for older children, with Anthony Browne, Martin Brown and Marcia Williams. Chaired by Nicolette Jones
• May 2010
  • 06 May 'Celebrating the Imagination'. Puffin offices, 80 Strand. By invitation.