The Stratford Literary Festival returns in May, complete with bestselling writers and household names from stage and screen.

Featuring more than 60 events, the festival’s programme includes contributions from leading historians and experts, award-winning fiction writers and ‘some of the most exciting emerging authors published this year’. Leading actresses Juliet Stevenson and Sally Phillips feature among the celebrity guests. The festival takes place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel from Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 May.

Since 2008 Stratford Literary Festival has been presenting an exciting mixture of debate, ideas, celebrity author events, workshops and humour - in spring and autumn. The Festival is also a charity, promoting the benefits of reading and writing on education, literacy and well-being with activities and workshops in schools, the community and prisons.

The Festival is one of the most significant literary festivals in the UK, attracting thousands of people to the world famous literary town of Stratford-upon-Avon, and all of whom share one passion: a love of books, writing and reading.

To find out more, visit stratlitfest.co.uk