Denise Welch and Vicky Pattison are booked

Wednesday April 26 to Monday May 1

The brochure for Books by the Beach is out now. The festival runs from Wednesday April 26 to Monday May 1.

Among the guests are Joanna Trollope, Denise Welch, Vicky Pattison, Adele Parks, Harriet Walter and Alan Johnson. Wednesday April 26

Joanne Trollope – talking about her latest novel City of Friends – Scarborough Library, 10am

Daisy Goodwin – Victoria – Scarborough Library – 12.30pm

Alison Watt: A Play in a Prison – writing workshop with writer and Beach Hut Theatre company founder – Scarborough Prison, Dean Road, 2pm to 5pm

Daisy Goodwin’s Victorian Tea Party – the Old Kitchen, Wykeham Abbey, Wykeham, 3pm

John Lewis-Stempel – Where Poppies Grow – the story of the British soldiers of the Great War – Scarborough Library, 5.30pm

Jerry White – Life in a Debtor’s Prison – profile of the Marshalsea – Scarborough Prison, Dean Road, 6pm and 8pm Thursday April 27

Wendy Moore, Mesmerism, Medicine or Myth – the story of John Elliotson, a doctor who introduced hypnotism to Victorian Britain, Scarborough Library, 11am

Classical concert – Stars and Stripes – with soprano Michelle Rothery, pianist Frank James, violinist Phillip Mindenhall and narrator Maria Billington, Scarborough Library, 12.30pm

Helena Kelly–Jane Austen, the Secret Radical – Scarborough Library, 3pm

Steve Westaby – Fragile Lifes – the heart surgeon talks about his work, Scarborough Library, 5.30pm

Wold Top Beer and Greensmith Nibbles – Greensmith and Thackwray, St Nicholas Street, 7pm Friday April 28

Alison Watt – Creating a costume drama workshop – Crescent Hotel, 9am-noon

Poems to Make Grown Women Cry – an Amnesty International event – Scarborough Library, 10am

Salley Vickers – literary

lunch with the novelist – Crescent Hotel, 12.30pm

Declan Marphy and Ami Rao – the jockey talks to his biographer – Scarborough Library, 5.30pm

Four Mums in a Boat – the champion rowers who crossed the Atlantic – Scarborough Spa, 7.30pm Saturday April 29

Anne Sebba – Les Parisennes – Palm Court Hotel, 9.30am

Shellshock – Taylor Downing, Simon Wessely and Alan Mallinson talk battle scars – Scarborough Library, 1pm

Louise Doughty and Erin Kelley – the novelists talk about writing thrillers – Scarborough Library, 3pm

Helen Czerski – Storm in a Teacup – the Physics of Everyday Life – Scarborough

Library, 5pm

Adele Parks and Vicky Pattison – the novelist and reality TV star talk Girls’ Night Out – Scarborough Library, 7pm Sunday April 30

Celebrity Sunday Papers with Alan Johnson and Helen Czerski – Scarborough Library, 10am

Ross King – Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies – Scarborough Art Gallery, The Crescent, 11.30am

Gervase Phinn – the School Inspector Calls – Scarborough Library, 1pm

Alan Johnson – the Labour politician talks about the third volume of his autobiography The Long and Winding Road, Scarborough Library, 3pm

Barry Forshaw – American Noir – Eat Me Cafe,

Haover Road, 4.30pm

Harriet Walter – Playing Shakespeare’s Roles for Women – Stephen Joseph Theatre, 7pm Monday May 1

Densie Welch–the actress talks a bout her debut novel If They Could See me Now, Scarborough Library, 10am

Gary Fildes – An Astronomer’s Tale – Scarborough Library, 1pm

Mark Billingham and Stuart Hamilton – Forsenics and Felony – Scarborough Library, 3pm

Charles Hindlip – Life at Christies as an Auctioneer – Scarborough Library, 6pm

Tickets are available from the Stephen Joseph Theatre box office on 01723 370541. For the events at Scarborough Spa 01723 821888.