Join us as we welcome Sophie Hannah to Wallingford. Sophie is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author. In 2023, she won the Crime Writers Association’s Dagger in the Library Award for her body of work.

Sophie will be in conversation with Alison Gomm, discussing her experiences writing the new Poirot series at the request of Agatha Christie’s family and estate; how Agatha has influenced her writing, and how her latest psychological thriller No One Would Do What The Lambert's Have Done, has both Agatha Christie and her pseudonym Mary Westmacott at its very heart.

The event will also include a question and answer session and a book signing.

In 1926, Agatha Christie was at the centre of a mystery when she disappeared for twelve days, sparking one of the biggest hunts in history. She was found in a hotel in Harrogate and said she couldn't remember anything. Did Agatha Christie lie? Did she suffer from amnesia? Was it a publicity stunt? Or was there a darker secret involved in this disappearance which was to affect her for the rest of her life?

A one-woman show, starring Liz Grand.  

A year after the funeral of their founder, nine members of a high society club gather for their annual dinner. Arriving at her grand mansion, not one of them can envisage how the evening will unravel. As past discretions return to haunt them, witness the downfall of the most abhorrent people humanity has to offer.

Entity Ensemble was formed by twelve drama school students in 2024 during their final year at East 15 Acting School. Drawing inspiration from their various backgrounds, and BA in World Performance, Entity Ensemble create thought provoking theatre, that is both visually engaging and imaginatively staged.

Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was Formula 1’s most promising driver of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling F1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to F1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team's hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace.  But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in F1, your teammate is your fiercest competition - and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.

F1 also stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, and Javier Bardem, and has been shot during actual Grand Prix weekends as the team competes against the titans of the sport.

Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.

One apartment. Four sisters. A lifetime of baggage.

After years apart, four women return to the family flat in Copacabana — not just to divide what’s been left behind, but to confront what they’ve each become. One is fiercely intellectual, another a romantic who fled to Paris. One seeks peace in spirituality, the other clings to structure and tradition. What starts as a practical discussion about inheritance quickly spirals into a riotous reckoning with old rivalries, forgotten dreams, and uncomfortable truths.

The Inheritance is a smart, spiky, and deeply heartfelt comedy about the minefield of family, full of sarcasm, tenderness and moments that are almost too real. There are arguments. There are revelations. And somewhere in all the chaos, there’s the fragile, unspoken bond of sisterhood that refuses to fade.

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.