Now in its fourth year, the Soho Literary Festival, supported by Arts Council England, this year starts on September 24. 36 events, all taking place in the iconic Soho Theatre in London, will cover off everything from food and wine to psychopaths.
With many of the events now sold out, we twisted some arms, and have managed to wangle ELLE Book Club fans ten pairs of tickets for the biggest and best. If you'd like to be in with a chance of winning, email us at elleexperience@elleuk.com with your choice of event, your name and phone number. Good luck! We will notify winners by Friday, September 19, but if you haven't been lucky, you can still book tickets here.
Rock Stars stole my life - Wed 24th 7pm
Mark Ellen, Britian's pre-eminent rock journalist of the past forty years and ELLE cover interviewer, in conversation
You Eat who you are - Friday 26th, 1pm
Sarah Boseley, The Guardian's health editor joins cardiologist Aseem Malhotra and Kate Harrison, author of 5:2 Your Life: Get Happy, Get Health, Get Slim, to talk about everything from sugar to Atkins
How to match wine with food - Friday 26th, 5pm
Tom Parker-Bowles, Luke Wilson and Bill Knott will show you how to make the best food and booze choices
Antonia Fraser talks to Mark Lawson - Saturday 27th, 12pm
Acclaimed biographer and historian Antonia Fraser will be talking to Mark Lawson about her career and life with her husband, Harold Pinter
Hippy Childhoods revisited - Saturday 27th, 1pm
Mikey Cuddihy, author of A Conversation About Happiness: The Story of a Lost Childhood, Abbie Ross, author of Hippy Dinners: A Memoir of a Rural Childhood and Cosmo Landesman, author of Starstruck, get together to discuss brown rice, meditation and communes
Sex in Georgian Soho - Saturday 27th, 2pm
Dan Cruickshank, author of The Secret History of Georgian London, and Jerry White, the author of London in the Eighteenth Century, talk sex in historic soho
How to Spot a Psychopath - Saturday 27th, 5pm
Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Cambridge, is an outstanding authority on disturbing patterns of the mind, and his book, Zero Degrees of Empathy, is an in-depth study of human cruelty. Accompanying him is forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes, bestselling author of Is There a Psycho in Your Life? Together they will discuss how to spot the psychopath in our midst.
Polari - Saturday 27th, 8pm
Described by the New York Times as 'London's most theatrical salon'
My Life in Agony - Sunday 28th 2pm
Irma Kurtz, author of My Life in Agony, joins up with Mary Killen of The Spectator, Virginia Ironside of The Independent and Katherine Whitehorn of Saga magazine. They will plumb the depths of misery and celebrate their fans' triumphs over adversity
The Big Literary Quiz - Sunday 28th, 4.30pm
Rachel Johnson will head the girls' team alongside Jane Thynne, author of The Winter Garden and Black Roses; the boys will comprise Harry Mount, Giles Coren, and Tom Ward, former Silent Witness actor
