Something for everyone on Books by the Beach bill

THURSDAY APRIL 16

Barry Norman and Samantha Norman, Scarborough Library Concert Room, 10am Classical Concert, Music of Puccini, Scarborough Library Concert Room, 12.30pm King John and the Road to the Magna Carta with Marc Morris, Scarborough Library Concert Room, 3pm The Natural Navigator with Tristan Gooley, Scarborough Library Concert Room, 5.30pm Sophie Hannah and the Monogram Murders: Poirot Festival Dinner, Scarborough Town Hall, 7.30pm Jack the Ripper with coroner Peter Dean, Scarborough Prison, 7.30pm

FRIDAY APRIL 17

Waterloo with Tim Clayton and Allan Mallinson, Scarborough Library Concert Room, 10am Literary lunch with Rosie Millard, The Crescent Hotel, Scarborough, noon Peter James – Page to Stage and Screen – Scarborough Library Concert Room, 3pm Sex on Earth with zoologist Jules Howard, Scarborough Library Concert Room, 5.30pm Omid Djalili – Hopeful – Scarborough Spa, 7.30pm Amnesty Event – Poems that Make Grown Men Cry – Scarborough Library Concert Room, 7.30pm

SATURDAY APRIL 18

SJ Watson and Louise Doughty, Scarborough Library Concert Room, 10am The Story of Alice with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Scarborough Library Concert Room, 12.30pm Mary Portas – Shop Girl – Scarborough Library Concert Room, 3pm Simon Heffer – High Minds: The Victorians – Scarborough Library Concert Room, 5pm Alan Johnson – Please Mr Postman – Scarborough Library Concert Room, 7.30pm The Dead House – ghost story – Dean Road Cemetery, meet the Dead House. Every hour from 10am to 4pm

SUNDAY APRIL 19

Ann Widdecombe and Simon Heffer – Celebrity Sunday Papers – Scarborough Library Concert Room, 10am Ann Widdecombe – Strictly Murder – Scarborough Library Concert Room, 12.30pm Blockbuster to Book with David Hewson and Erin Kelly – Scarborough Library Concert Room, 3pm Radio and the Power of Story with Helen Boaden, Scarborough Library Concert Room, 5pm Val McDermid, Scarborough Library Concert Room, 7pm The Dead House – ghost story – Dean Road Cemetery, meet the Dead House. Every hour from 10am to 4pm

WEDNESDAY APRIL 29

Literary Lunch with Alexander McCall Smith, Palm Court Hotel, 12.30pm