Frances Wilson, Gavin Menzies

As the Titanic sank J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner, jumped into a lifeboat and rowed away to safety. Frances Wilson explores the reasons behind Ismay’s jump, his desperate need to make sense of the horror and his search for a way of living with lost honour.

Was it a place of fiction, or did Atlantis really exist? And if it did, where was it and what brought about its downfall? Through painstaking research, Gavin Menzies has pieced together a credible picture of Atlantis as the empire of the Minoans.

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Girls' Night

Part 1 - Bestselling authors Penny Vincenzi and Katie Fforde share their thoughts about writing, life, love and what it's like to be a phenomenal success.

Part 2 - TV presenting, modelling, journalism, fashion design, art... Kay Burley, Judy Astley and Carmen Reid talk about how their different life experiences have led them to write their bestselling novels.

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Crime Day

Prepare yourself to face dead bodies and dodgy deals, hot plots and cold-blooded murder – all in the company of your hosts for the day: Simon Brett, N.J. Cooper and Peter Guttridge.

There are six panel events featuring leading authors alongside others you may not have discovered yet. Find out more about Nev Fountain and Sam Leith; Aly Monroe and Laura Wilson; N.J. Cooper, S.J. Bolton and Isabelle Grey; Linda Regan, Ruth Dudley Edwards and Sheila Quigley; L.A. Larkin and Kishwar Desai; Meg Gardiner and Felix Riley.