Westlands Entertainment Venue, Yeovil

Festival

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  Peter James - Dead in Three, Two, One Peter James is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author best known for his crime thrillers featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, who Queen Camilla recently named as her favourite fictional detective....

  Peter James

  Westlands Ballroom, Thu 22 Oct, 8:00pm

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  James Aldred - A Wagon in the Woods There are some moments in childhood that are frozen in time, vivid and vital, an anchor. When James tracked down an old Romani wagon he once played in, he found himself inside one such moment again. Though brambles had over...

  James Aldred

  Westlands, Fri 23 Oct, 12:00pm

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  The Yeovil Literary Prize is a competition held annually by Yeovil Community Arts Association and has seen writers from across the world enter the 23rd competition. Meet and listen to exciting recent winners of the Yeovil Literar...

  YCAA: Yeovil Literary Prize Winners 2026

  Westlands Studio, Fri 23 Oct, 2:00pm

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  Wyl Menmuir - The Spirit of Stone Wyl Menmuir is a novelist, editor and literary consultant based in Cornwall. He is the author of the Man-Booker nominated novel and Observer Best Fiction of the year pick, The Many, and Fox Fires. He is co-creator of the Cor...

  Wyl Menmuir

  Westlands, Fri 23 Oct, 4:00pm

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  Rosie Walsh - The One Day You Were My Husband & Lulu Taylor - The Forever Summer We're so pleased to welcome bestselling authors Rosie Walsh and Lulu Taylor to the festival. Come and celebrate the million-copy, New York Times bestselling author of The Man Wh...

  Rosie Walsh & Lulu Taylor

  Westlands, Fri 23 Oct, 6:00pm

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  *Please note: This event has been rescheduled and will now take place on a different date and time to that advertised in our August–December 2026 Seasonal Brochure.* Dame Maggie Aderin - James Webb's Ancient Cosmos Can the James Webb Space Telescope really s...

  Dame Maggie Aderin

  Westlands Ballroom, Sat 24 Oct, 12:00pm

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  Hugo Vickers & Miranda Seymour - Behind Closed Doors & I, Vera Hugo Vickers is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and an acknowledged expert on the Royal Family. He has written biographies of the Queen Mother, Alice, Princess An...

  Hugo Vickers & Miranda Seymour

  Westlands, Sat 24 Oct, 2:00pm

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  Professor Dame Sue Black - An Expert Witness Sue Black, the UK’s leading forensic scientist, has forty years’ experience analysing criminal case evidence. And acting as an expert witness, over the same period she has repeatedly put her research and reputation...

  Professor Dame Sue Black

  Westlands Ballroom, Sat 24 Oct, 2:00pm

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  Jim Al-Khalili - On Time While we have come a long way toward deciphering the laws of the universe, many physicists still regard time to be one of the greatest unsolved mysteries. In On Time, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Su...

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Westlands Ballroom, Sat 24 Oct, 8:00pm

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