Coming up in-person!
An Evening with Ash Bhardwaj
Wednesday 7 May 2025, Waterstones Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes, 7.00pm; £5
Award-winning journalist, podcaster & broadcaster Ash Bhardwaj is the author of Why We Travel, The Independent’s “Travel Book of the Year 2024”. He’s reported from over 50 countries for the BBC, Conde Nast Traveller, Discovery, the Guardian, and appears as a travel expert on BBC One and Sky News.
A Green City Literary Walk (MinK2025)
Sunday 11 May 2025, Starts at CMK Railway Station Plaza, 2.00 - 4.00pm; £5
Let the writers of Milton Keynes take you for a 90-minute adventure into their imaginations as we stroll with them around the Teardrop Lakes and Loughton Valley Park, spinning poems and tales with a twist. Join us for this literary walk, featuring the very best of local writing from MK Lit Fest’s fabulous anthologies of creative writing.
Ben Aitken: Sh*tty Breaks - A Celebration of Unsung Cities
Wednesday 21 May 2025, Waterstones Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes, 7.00pm; £5
Join us as award winning travel author and journalist Ben Aitken talks about how he discovered some of the UK’s most charming unsung cities – MK included! Ben will also be signing copies of the book and all ticketholders receive a complimentary beverage.
Prof David Wilson: A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders
Wednesday 17 September 2025, Waterstones Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes, 7.00pm; £5
In his groundbreaking new book, leading criminologist Professor David Wilson blends history and true crime to explore what our most lethal murderers reveal about us. Renowned for deciphering murderers’ hidden motives, he zooms out to look at what multiple killings across time say about our past... and our present.
An Evening with Sarah Pinborough: We Live Here Now
Wednesday 4 June 2025, Waterstones Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes, 7.00pm; £5
Join us in Waterstones MK as Sarah Pinborough, Milton Keynes’ award-winning author of New York Times bestselling breakout novel (and hit Netflix show) Behind Her Eyes, returns with a haunting Gothic novel about a house―and a marriage―gone terribly wrong as two people realise that We Live Here Now.
An Evening with Sally Smith: The Women Who Went Round the World
Wednesday 16 July 2025, Waterstones Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes, 7.00pm; £5
We welcome journalist and writer Sally Smith talking about her most recent books, The Women Who Went Round the World and Magnificent Women and Flying Machines: fascinating stories of the lives and journeys of ground breaking women, and extraordinary glimpses into society at very different times of history.