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. Recent appearances are listed here.
24 February 6.30pm. Story Museum, Oxford. Nicolette Jones talks to Sir Nicholas Hytner, former director of the National Theatre, about bringing stories to the stage.
28 February Nicolette Jones interviews Michael Rosen about his book on Zola's exile in Norwood: 'The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case'. Jewish Book Week. 8.30pm, Kings Place
26 January Nicolette Jones talks to Sophia Jansson about the work and letters of Tove Jansson. With readings by Harriet Walter. Dulwich Picture Gallery
27 January National Theatre Platform Conversation. Peter Pan – archetypal adolescent.
5.45–6.30pm, Cottesloe Room
Jungian analyst Ann Yeoman discusses, with Nicolette Jones, Peter Pan as a compelling modern figure for the 'puer aeternus', providing a psychological (and magical) overview of the archetypal 'eternal youth' as we meet him in both ancient mythology and contemporary experience.
04 December 'Nicolette Jones Recommends' 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: Nicolette selects Christmassy books for the young.
11 December 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: interview and live drawing with Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo.'Nicolette Jones Recommends'
18 December 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: Nicolette on why libraries should be a priority for government and local authorities.'Nicolette Jones Recommends'
05 November 12 noon. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Judith Kerr. Stream Festival, South London.
06 November 'Nicolette Jones Recommends' 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: interview with Cressida Cowell, author of How to Train Your Dragon series.
13 November 'Nicolette Jones Recommends' 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: Nicolette celebrates Winnie-the-Pooh's 90th birthday.
16 November 6pm for the Children’s Book Show. Nicolette Jones in conversation with illustrator Marianne DuBuc. Quebec Government Office, 59 Pall Mall London SW1Y 5JH
20 November 'Nicolette Jones Recommends' 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: Nicolette Jones does very silly things with Andy Stanton, author of the Mr Gum series and a new picturebook, Danny McGee Drinks the Sea.
24 November Nicolette Jones hosts Gliterary Lunch, Kingsway Hall Hotel, London, with Victoria Hislop (Cartes Postales from Greece) and Elizabeth Buchan (The New Mrs Clifton).
27 November 'Nicolette Jones Recommends' 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: interview with author and illustrator John Burningham.
02 October First 'Nicolette Jones Recommends' 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: illustrated children's non-fiction. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-new-video-series-nicolette-jones-recommends-jzpj989sz
04 October Newcastle. Nicolette Jones discusses the experience of refugees with Fabio Geda, author of In the Sea There Are Crocodiles.
09 October 3.15pm Cheltenham Literature Festival Nicolette Jones discusses his Branford Boase Award winning book Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot with Horatio Clare.
09 October 'Nicolette Jones Recommends' 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails to see it.) This week: interview with David Baddiel about AniMalcolm.
12 October Cheltenham Literary Festival L167 Rehearsing Shakespeare With The RSC 16:00
The Times Forum, Montpellier Gardens. Live rehearsal of Othello followed by Nicolette Jones in discussion with actors Michelle Terry and Pearl Chanda, director Blanche McIntyre and voice coach Benet Brandreth.
13 October 1.45 Cheltenham Literature Festival. Roald Dahl: The Phizz-Whizzing Storyteller. Chaired by Nicolette Jones
With Dahl's official biographer Donald Sturrock (Love From Boy) who shares a lifetime of letters written to his mother, Dahl’s doctor Tom Solomon (Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Medicine), who reveals how his fascination for medicine influenced much of his work, and Jillian Taylor, editor of Dahl's stories for adults.
13 October 4pm Cheltenham Literature Festival Beatrix Potter: A Celebration. Spiegeltent. Chaired by Nicolette Jones. Afternoon tea with biographer Matthew Dennison (Over the Hills and Far Away) revealing the depth and complexity of her character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; canny businesswoman. And journalist and broadcaster Hunter Davies, an avid collector of Potter memorabilia, exploring the Lake District landscape that she devoted her life and fortune to conserving (Lakeland: A Personal Journey).
14 October 11am Cheltenham Literature Festival Reader, I Married Him chaired by Nicolette Jones.
Tracy Chevalier and Evie Wyld salute and celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel Jane Eyre and its beloved narrator with their own short stories inspired by the now immortal words from her great work.
14 October 5.15pm Cheltenham Literature Festival Simon Armitage and Nicolette Jones.
The acclaimed poet, who brought Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to vivid life, presents his new translation of the medieval English masterpiece, Pearl.
16 October 'Nicolette Jones Recommends' 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: Selection of children's poetry.
22 October 12 noon Exeter Literary Festival. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Meg Rosoff, about Beck, the unfinished book by her friend Mal Peet that she has completed.
23 October 'Nicolette Jones Recommends', 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: interview with Philip Reeve about Blacklight Express.
30 October 'Nicolette Jones Recommends' 3-minute video about children's books on the Sunday Times website. (Non-subscribers can just register their emails here to see it.) This week: children's books for Hallowe'en.
12 May Nicolette Jones hosts Gliterary Lunch, at Kingsway Hotel with Louise Doughty (Black Water) and Claire North (The Sudden Appearances of Hope).
15 May 10.30am Nicolette Jones in conversation with Judith Kerr at Barnes Festival
20 May Charleston Literary Festival 5pm Art and Isolation. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Olivia Laing about her Lonely City, a study of artists in New York, and Julia Blackburn about her life of John Craske.
22 May Charleston Literary Festival noon First Couples. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Flora Fraser about the Washingtons and Daisy Hay about the Disraelis.
22 May Charleston Literary Festival 7.30pm Notable Women. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Simon Garfield about the Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt and Helen Simonson about her novel The Summer Before the War.
28 May Charleston Literary Festival noon. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Alexandra Harris about her book Weatherland
09 April St Hilda's Writers Day at the Oxford Literary Festival. Directed by Nicolette Jones. All participants are alumnae of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
• 12 noon Yang-May Ooi Bound Feet Blues. About her book and one-woman show about women's lives in China,
• 2pm The Art of the Short Story. With Helen Simpson (Cockfosters), Frances Leviston (shortlisted for the BBC's National Short Story Award) and Kirsty Gunn (My Katherine Mansfield Project). Chaired by Claire Armitstead, literary editor of The Guardian
• 4pm Nicolette Jones in conversation with Hannah Rothschild about her novel The Improbability of Love
• 6pm Daisy Dunn on her new biography of Catullus: Catullus's Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet, and on her new translation of Catullus's poems.
14 April Nicolette Jones in conversation with Judith Kerr at London Book Fair. 12.30-1pm (our 20th double act since 2007).
21 March Nicolette Jones talks about submissions for the Sunday Times and other outlets at the Publishers' Publicity Circle. Foyles Gallery, Charing Cross Road. 12.45 for 1pm
04 October Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature11.30-12.15. Nicolette Jones hears from Sandi Toksvig about her new children’s book A Slice of The Moon. Event LB29
Cheltenham Ladies College Parabola Arts Centre
04 October Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature 4pm. Nicolette Jones talks to Australian poet Les Murray about his new collection Waiting for the Past. Event L079
The Inkpot, Imperial Square
05 October Nicolette Jones on BBC Radio 4's Quote ... Unquote. 3pm With Nigel Rees, Sarah Kendall, Jeremy Front, Norman Lovatt and Charlotte Green. (2nd programme)
09 October Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature 11am to noon. Alzheimers in Fact and Fiction: Nicolette Jones talks to Lisa Genova (Still Alice), Elaine Proctor (The Savage Hour) and Tim Parry of Alzheimers Research UK. Town Hall, University of Warwick Stage.
09 October Times and Sunday Times
Cheltenham Festival of Literature. One Wild Song, 4.45pm. Nicolette Jones interviews Paul Heiney, whose son Nicholas committed suicide aged 23, about his solo voyage to Cape Horn to connect with happier memories. Interspersed with excerpts from The Silence at the Song's End, Nick's collected journals and poetry, published posthumously. Event L235
Town Hall, University of Warwick Stage
10 October Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature1-2pm. Nicolette Jones talks to Michael Morpurgo and Judith Kerr about their approach to writing about the Holocaust. 10+ Event LB62 Sunday Times Garden Theatre
10 October Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature 5.30-6.30pm Nicolette Jones chairs Once Upon a Time, with Viv French, Sally Gardner and Jane Ray. Family event 9+ about reworking traditional/fairy tales. Town Hall Drawing Room
10 October Nicolette Jones on BBC Radio 4's Quote ... Unquote. 11pm With Nigel Rees, Sarah Kendall, Jeremy Front, Norman Lovatt and Charlotte Green. (2nd programme repeated)
11 October Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature.1-2pm. Nicolette Jones talks to Kate Saunders, author of Five Children on the Western Front, and Holly Webb, author of Return to the Secret Garden, about writing sequels to classic novels. Event LB85 Little Big Top
11 October Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature4.15pm. Nicolette Jones discusses with Harry Mount travelling in the footsteps of Odysseus. Town Hall, Drawing Room
11 October Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. 6.30pm Nicolette Jones hears from human rights activist Yeonmi Park about the brutal regime she escaped in North Korea. Event The Salon, Montpellier Gardens
13 October National Academy of Writing Public Edit 6-8pm with Mark Watson and Richard Beard. Jacqueline du Pre Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford. http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naw-at-st-hildas-college-public-edit-tickets-17209162067
14 October Nicolette Jones hosts Book Aid International Quiz Doggetts Coat and Badge, 1 Blackfriars Bridge 6 for 7pm. Prizes. Raffle. £15 per person inc finger buffet. All proceeds to Book Aid.
28 October 1pm Nicolette Jones in conversation with Judith Kerr, Storystock Festival, Bush Theatre.
26 September Write on Kew Festival. 5.15-6.15pm. Nicolette Jones interviews Louis de Bernieres about his novel The Dust That Falls From Dreams. SOLD OUT.
26 September 11pm Nicolette Jones on BBC Radio 4's Quote ... Unquote. With Nigel Rees, Sarah Kendall, Jeremy Front, Norman Lovatt and Charlotte Green. (1st programme repeated)
27 September 2pm Nicolette Jones at Small Wonder short story festival, Charleston, in conversation with Marina Warner and Heather O'Neill.
09 May 7.30pm Brighton Festival. Nicolette Jones discusses Moomins with Tove Jansson's niece Sophia Jansson, with Philip Pullman and with Philip Ardargh
16 May St Hilda's College, Oxford. One-Day Conference on Documentary-Making organised by St Hilda's Media Network. Five sessions with 15 producers/directors/presenters including Bill Oddie, Nicolas Kent, Clio Barnard ...
20 May Charleston Literary Festival. 6pm. Maggi Hambling discusses her art and life, and her installation War Requiem, with Nicolette Jones
21 May Charleston Literary Festival. 1pm. Behind the Façade. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Anne de Courcy, author of Margot at War, and Claudia Renton, author of Those Wild Wyndhams, about Edwardian England and its Prime Ministers' marital infidelities.
25 May Charleston Literary Festival. 2.30pm. The Secret History of Wonderland. Nicolette Jones in conversation, for the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland, with Lewis Carroll's biographer Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Vanessa Tait, whose novel The Looking Glass House is based on the life of her great-grandmother Alice Liddell.
12 March 10am Nicolette Jones in conversation with Anthony Horowitz at Stratford Old Town Hall (Discover Story Centre Big Write Festival schools event) for the 15th anniversary of publication of Stormbreaker.
14 March St Hilda's College ASM London Tea. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Lyndall Gordon about 'The Possibilities of Biography'. 3-5pm. The Landsdowne Club, WC1. Book here.
21 March 12 noon. Oxford Literary Festival. Corpus Christi. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Anthony Browne.
28 March 12 Noon FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival. Nicolette Jones discusses with the author, on the 20th anniversary of first publication of Northern Lights, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
10 February Nicolette Jones gives illustrated talk about Samuel Plimsoll at the Plimsoll Building marketing suite, Kings Cross, London N1C. To attend: donate £1 to the RNLI for Plimsolls for Plimsoll Day.
25 November 'How to Run a Media Network'. St Hilda's College Media Network Chair Nicolette Jones speaks on a panel for Mansfield College, Oxford. BBC Broadcasting House. By invitation.
04 October , 10am-11am. Sunday Times Garden Theatre. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones introduces Michael Morpurgo and illustrator Helen Stephens, talking about their new collaboration Mimi and the Mountain Dragon.
04 October , 1.30-2.30pm. Town Hall. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones discusses with Margaret Atwood the last part of her dystopian trilogy, Maddaddam, and her new collection of stories, Stone Mattress.
04 October , 5-6 pm, Town Hall, Drawing Room. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones considers teen fiction recommendations, with Lucy Powrie and Rebecca Clee.
06 October , 4-5pm. Town Hall. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones discusses the extraordinary life of Vita Sackville-West with her biographers Robert Sackville-West and Tim Dennison.
07 October , 12 noon-1pm. The Salon, Montpellier Gardens. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Laurie Lee's daughter Jessy Lee discusses her father's life as an artist with Nicolette Jones.
07 October , 4-5pm The Inkpot. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones hears from the RSC's Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman and writer Phil Porter about bringing the story of 1914's Christmas Truce to the stage.
08 October , 6.45-7.45pm. The Salon, Montpellier Gardens. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones talks to Brigid Keenan, author of Diplomatic Baggage, about her new book.
09 October , 6,15-7.15pm. Sunday Times Garden Theatre. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones talks to sisters Emma Bridgewater and Nell Gifford about ceramics and circuses, and their books, Toast & Marmalade and Other Stories, and Gifford's Circus: The First Ten Years.
11 October , 3.15-4.15pm. The Times Forum. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones, who interviewed former Festival Director Elizabeth Jane Howard at Cheltenham in 2008, celebrates the life and work of the late novelist with her stepson Martin Amis and her biographer Artemis Cooper. With readings by Rebecca Front.
11 October , 4.30-5.30pm. Parabola Arts Centre.. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones celebrates classic picturebooks with Judith Kerr and Lauren Child, discussing the development of their own imagination, and their new books The Crocodile Under the Bed and A New Small Person. For an adult audience.
12 October , 1.30-2.30pm. Town Hall. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones introduces Jacqueline Wilson, talking about her 100th novel, Opal Plumstead.
12 October , 3.45-4.45pm. The Salon, Montpellier Gardens. The Times/Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones hears from Brian Patten, P J Kavanagh and Tim Dee about their memories of Laurie Lee and favourite passages from his work.
14 May Random House Picturebook Spring Showcase. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Anthony Browne. By invitation.
21 May Charleston Literary Festival. 1pm. Nicolette Jones discusses their work with Penelope Lively and Jane Gardam.
22 May Charleston Literary Festival. 'The Way They Live Now'. 6pm. Nicolette Jones hears from Edward St Aubyn and Sadie Jones about their new satirical novels.
23 May Charleston Literary Festival. 'Stoke and Sissinghurst.' 1pm. Nicolette Jones in conversation with designer Emma Bridgewater and gardener Sarah Raven.
22 March Oxford Literary Festival. 4pm. Nicolette Jones talks to Meg Rosoff about her novels, including her latest, Picture Me Gone, and the recently filmed How I Live Now,
23 March 5.30 pm. Nicolette Jones discusses Roald Dahl with Philip Ardagh. With special guest performance from a Matilda from the RSC's West End show.
26 March 4pm. Oxford Literary Festival. Science and War Nicolette Jones discusses scientists who worked with Hitler and Churchill on the nuclear bomb with Graham Farmelo and Philip Ball. Corpus Christi Lecture Theatre.
29 March Oxford Literary Festival. 10am. Nicolette Jones in discussion with Lauren St John and actor Virginia McKenna, about how animals have inspired them, notably in Lauren St John's One Dollar Horse trilogy, culminating with Firestorm, and in her Laura Marlin Mysteries, and in both of their work with the Born Free Foundation.
29 March St Hilda's Day at the Oxford Literary Festival. 12 noon. Nicolette Jones interviews Andrew Taylor about his latest crime thriller The Scent of Death.
30 March Oxford Literary Festival. 2pm. Kevin Crossley-Holland - in costume as Merlin - talks to Nicolette Jones about the history of the wizard.
30 March Oxford Literary Festival. 4.30pm. Nicolette Jones talks to Lauren Child about the inspirations for her Ruby Redfort stories.
09 November 4-5pm. Nicolette Jones talks to Emma Chichester Clark and Michael Morpurgo about their new version of Pinocchio at the Federation of Children's Book Groups Festival at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
15 November Children's Road Show. Nicolette Jones interviews Fabio Geda, author of In The Sea There Are Crocodiles. Oxford Playhouse. 10.30-11.30am. With readings by actor Samuel John.
15 November Nicolette Jones on Children's Book Show 'Found in Translation' panel about Publishing Books in Translation with Sian Williams, Fabio Geda, Howard Curtis, with readings by actor Samuel John. 3.30-4.30pm Europe House, Westminster.
05 October 12.30-1.15 Nicolette Jones discusses their new novels with Alexandra Shulman and Nicholas Coleridge. Cheltenham Festival of Literature
05 October 4-5pm Nicolette Jones discusses Moby Dick with Sarah Churchwell, Philip Hoare and Cerys Matthews Cheltenham Festival of Literature
06 October 10am-11am. Nicolette Jones discusses Middlemarch with Rosemary Ashton, A S Byatt and Philip Hensher. Cheltenham Festival of Literature
06 October 12 noon-1pm. Nicolette Jones hears about the Great Tapestry of Scotland from Alistair Moffatt, Alexander McCall Smith and James Naughtie. Cheltenham Festival of Literature
08 October 12 noon-1pm. Nicolette Jones discusses C S Lewis with his biographers Alister McGrath, A N Wilson and Lewis scholar Michael Ward Cheltenham Festival of Literature
18 September 6-8pm. Opening of Samuel Plimsoll exhibition, mounted by Nicolette Jones from her collection, as part of the Folkestone Plimsoll Memorial Campaign. Folkestone Town Hall (1-2 Guildhall Street). By invitation (contact me). Exhibition open to all 10am-4pm weekdays 19 Sept-25 Oct and Saturday 12 Oct.
22 May Charleston Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones talks to Audrey Niffenegger whose illustrated novel – The Raven Girl – is being adapted as a ballet by the Royal Opera House and to Lucy Moore, author of a new biography of Nijinsky 6pm
22 May Charleston Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones talks to Kevin Jackson about his new book on the birth of Modernism in 1922 and to Sarah Churchwell about F Scott Fizgerald and The Great Gatsby. 8pm
24 May Charleston Festival of Literature. 3.30pm. Nicolette Jones talks to Joanne Harris and Salley Vickers
16 March 16-24 March Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. Children's programme directed by Nicolette Jones. With Philip Ardagh, Ros Asquith, Bidisha, Cathy Cassidy, Eoin Colfer, Julia Donaldson, Polly Dunbar, Abigail Gibbs, Cornelia Funke, Sally Gardner, Julia Golding, Charlie Higson, Anthony Horowitz, Shirley Hughes, Rhiannon Lassiter, Christopher Lloyd, Roger McGough, Annabel Pitcher, Philip Pullman, Meg Rosoff, Axel Scheffler, Kristina Stephenson, and Clara, Tom and Ed Vulliamy. Plus Peter Rabbit, Winnie-the-Pooh, Spot the Dog and the Oxford Word Wizards.
17 March St Hilda's Media Network day at the Oxford Literary Festival, a day of events with alumnae and associates of St Hilda's College: Gillian Shephard on Margaret Thatcher, Val McDermid, Oliver Ford Davies and Triona Adams reading Philip Larkin's correspondence with Barbara Pym, and screenwriting panel with Linda Aronson, Pooky Quesnel and Jean Buchanan. Organised by the St Hilda's Media Network, chaired by Nicolette Jones. All events in the Divinity School of the Bodleian Library. See Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival and search 'Hilda' for full details.
17 March 12 noon, Divinity School, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Crime writer and St Hilda's College alumna Val McDermid talks to Nicolette Jones about her new novel, The Vanishing Point.
23 March 6pm Nicolette Jones talks to Sally Gardner and Annabel Pitcher about their acclaimed young adult novels Maggot Moon and Ketchup Clouds.
24 March 10 am Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Nicolette Jones discusses Oblivion, the last of his Power of Five sequence, with
Anthony Horowitz.
24 March 2pm Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Nicolette Jones discusses Cornelia Funke's new novel Fearless with the internationally celebrated author.
13 November Nicolette Jones speaks to the Hampshire Writers' Society.
23 November Nicolette Jones introduces Quentin Blake and Joann Sfar for a draw-off at the French Institute at 6pm. Their collaborative drawings will be screened live. Launch event of the South Ken Kids Festival .
05 October 2pm Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event L017: part of 7 Ages of Man series - panel discussions about favourite pieces of literature which concentrate on a particular stage in life. Nicolette Jones hears and discusses extracts about Childhood chosen by John Mullan, Nick Tucker and Erica Wagner
05 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event LB01 6.30-7.30pm Nicolette Jones talks to Anthony Horowitz, including the final volume of the Power of Five series, Oblivion. For 12+
06 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature 4-5pm Event L036 Nicolette Jones talks to Philip Pullman about his life and work, including his new retellings of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
11 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event L204 The Regency Booker Prize 2pm
A Time Traveller's Booker. Nicolette Jones introduces Paula Byrne, Kate Chisholm, Hallie Rubenhold and Jenny Uglow talking about works by Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe and Fanny Burney
11 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event L210 Funerals and Mourning 4pm, Part of the 7 Ages of Man series. Nicolette Jones discusses favourite literature about death with Kitty Aldridge, Catharine Arnold, Thomas Enger and Tim Lott
12 October National Academy of Writing Fair. 6.30pm Freeword Centre, London. Nicolette Jones chairs discussion: "What is the best way to teach creative writing?" with representatives from the UEA MA, the Faber Academy, the Arvon Foundation, Cambridge University
13 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event LB65 2.30-3.15 Nicolette Jones talks to Judith Kerr, author of the Mog books, and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, and introduces The Great Granny Gang. For 8+
13 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature 5.45-6.45 pm. Event LB72 Life, Love and Loss. Nicolette Jones talks to Mal Peet, Sally Gardner and Nick Lake about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race, and the history of Haiti, as represented in their books Life: An Unexploded Diagram, Maggot Moon, and In Darkness.
13 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature 8.45-10 pm. Event L294 It's All News to Me. Nicolette Jones talks to Radio presenter Jeremy Vine about his memoir of 25 years at the BBC.
14 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature 2-3 pm. Event L321. Nicolette Jones talks to Pulitzer-Prize winning author Richard Ford about his first novel for six years, Canada.
27 October Scriptwriting Day at St Hilda's College, Oxford. With Ian Brown, Jean Buchanan,
Meg Davis, Matt Fitton, Marion Nancarrow, Tina Pepler, Sarah Pinborough, Harriet Rees, Whit Stillman, Katharine Way, Sioned William. Introduced by Nicolette Jones. See St Hilda's website for full details and to book.
17 April London Book Fair 3.30-4.30pm Nicolette Jones interviews one of China's most popular children's authors, Yang Hongying, who has sold 40 million copies of her books.
18 April London Book Fair. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Carnegie-Medal winning author Patrick Ness. 11.30am. PEN cafe.
26 April To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Phantom Tollbooth, Nicolette Jones discusses the book with its author, Norton Juster. Foyles Gallery, 113-119 Charing Cross Rd, London WC2H 0EB. 6.30pm. Free but book on events@foyles.co.uk
24 March Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 24 March-1 April. The young people's programme, directed by Nicolette Jones, of events for 3-17s, involves 58 authors and illustrators including Giles Andreae, Tim Bowler, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Emma Chichester Clark, Mackenzie Crook, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Joanne Harris, Charlie Higson, Anthony Horowitz, Liz Kessler, Derek Landy, Caroline Lawrence, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Morpurgo, Patrick Ness, Sally Nicholls, Korky Paul, Philip Pullman, Alex and Simon Scarrow, Axel Scheffler, Francesca Simon, Jeremy Strong, Andy Stanton, Kristina Stephenson, Clara Vulliamy, Jeanne Willis, Chris Wormell, Moira Young - and Peter Rabbit. See link for full programme and to book.
29 March Nicolette Jones is after-dinner speaker at the Royal Naval Reserve Officers Dining Club. At the Naval Club, London.
31 March Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. Nicolette Jones discusses Socrates with Bettany Hughes, author of The Hemlock Cup. 10am, Christ Church Marquee.
31 March Oxford Literary Festival. Nicolette Jones introduces William Boyd talking about his new novel Waiting for Sunrise. Christ Church Marquee. 6pm
31 March St Hilda's Media Network day at the Oxford Literary Festival, a day of events with alumnae and associates of St Hilda's College: Bettany Hughes, Sophie Hannah, Simon Brett, Zeinab Badawi, Baroness Gillian Shephard and William Boyd. See Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival and search 'Hilda' for full details.
29 November Community Chest celebration, Cripplegate Foundation including Nicolette Jones and Naomi Schillinger's presentation about the Blackstock Triangle Gardeners. Claremont Project, nr Angel, Islington, N1
05 October The Children's Bookshow 11am-12.15 Judith Kerr and Thomas Ungerer. Chaired by Nicolette Jones. Oxford Playhouse
07 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event L014 4pm Nicolette Jones introduces David Lodge and John Sutherland on the Lives of the Novelists.
08 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event LB09 9+ 12 noon Nicolette Jones meets Clarice Bean's favourite character Ruby Redfort and her creator Lauren Child
08 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event L049 2pm Nicolette Jones celebrates great Italian gardens with Monty Don and photographer Derry Moore
08 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event L074 8.45pm Nicolette Jones, Joe Dunthorne and Blake Morrison discuss Wild Abandon and The Last Weekend
09 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event LB29 8+ 12 noon. Nicolette Jones joins Michael Morpurgo and Juliet Stevenson to celebrate the children's poetry and stories of Ted Hughes
09 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event LB37 8+ 3.30pm Nicolette Jones disappoints Barney Harwood fans (see listing on link) and introduces Blue Peter prizewinners Ali Sparkes and Lauren St John
09 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event L103 6pm Nicolette Jones considers society's attitudes to ageing women with Rachel Johnson, Jane Shilling, and Harriet Walter
15 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Event LB59 12.45 Nicolette Jones explores the stories of Henry VIII, the young Elizabeth I and Michaelangelo's David with Harriet Castor, Pauline Francis and Mary Hoffman
10 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature Sunday 10 October noon-1pm Nicolette Jones discusses Philip Larkin with his biographer Andrew Motion, the editor of his letters, Anthony Thwaite, and Martin Amis, whose father Kingsley was his friend and correspondent.
10 October Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Nicolette Jones introduces Judith Kerr. 4.15pm.
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)
10 October Cheltenham Literature Festival. Everyman Theatre. Nicolette Jones discusses Dylan Thomas, and Aerowny Thomas's memoir of her father, My Father's Places with Thomas's granddaughter Hannah Ellis and biographer Andrew Lycett
10 October Cheltenham Literature Festival. Town Hall. Nicolette Jones discusses Blue Skies and Black Olives with John Humphrys
17 October Cheltenham Literature Festival. Nicolette Jones in conversation with Joan Bakewell about her novel All the Nice Girls.
18 October Cheltenham Literature Festival. Nicolette Jones talks to Hilary McKay about her sequel to A Little Princess, Wishing for Tomorrow.
26 October Nicolette Jones discusses T S Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats with Axel Scheffler (illustrator of the new edition) and Simon Callow (who will read from the poems). British Library
18 September Woodstock Literary Festival, Blenheim. "The Ultimate Read." Nicolette Jones talks about a favourite book (Middlemarch). Book Club event with John Walsh (Catch 22) and Joanne Harris (Lolita) chaired by Alastair Lack.
21 September Free Word Centre launch festival. Words and Pictures: what use is a picturebook? Nicolette Jones answers the question with Children's Laureate Anthony Browne and illustrators Emily Gravett and Catherine Rayner. Free Word Centre, Farringdon Road.
17 October Cheltenham Literature Festival. Chairing event on Gray's Anatomy to mark its 150th anniversary. With editor-in-chief Susan Standring, author of The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy, Ruth Richardson and anatomy expert Harold Ellis.
18 October Cheltenham Literature Festival. In conversation with Elizabeth Jane Howard. Discussing her novel Love All.
18 October Cheltenham Literature Festival. In conversation with Jamila Gavin and David Almond.
19 October Cheltenham Literature Festival. Chairing family event with Shirley Hughes and Clara Vulliamy. 2.30-3.30pm
26 October In conversation with Lauren Child. Victoria and Albert Museum lecture theatre.
22 May Write Away Conference, University of London, Institute of Education. 'More than Information: Engaging hearts and minds through non-fiction.' Keynote Speech on trends and challenges in children's non-fiction
06 April Oxford Literature Festival Event 095. 1pm Long room, Town Hall, St Aldates. Chairing teen reading event with Kevin Brooks and Melvin Burgess.
06 April Oxford Literature Festival Event 140. 4pm Christ Church Marquee. When the Magic Began. Talk with readings from classic children's books by actors Teresa Gallagher and Anton Lesser. Sponsored by Naxos AudioBooks.
09 March Bath Literary Festival,
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution.
Illustrated talk on The Plimsoll Sensation.
23 March Oxford Literary Festival. Illustrated Talk on The Plimsoll Sensation. Noon. Christ Church.
27 March Judging Institute of Ideas Debating Matters North
East Regional Final at Kings Road Centre, Newcastle
University, on the motions: 'America is dumbing down world
culture' and 'Scientists should adopt the precautionary
principle'
14 September , 7pm, Much Ado
Books, Alfriston, Sussex; RNLI literary dinner, speaking about The Plimsoll Sensation, with Kathryn Hughes, author of The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton