Beatles Complete present a night of Beatlemania packed with massive hits from the most influential band of all time. This Liverpool based ‘beat combo’ are the youngest ever Beatles band to gain a residency at the Cavern Club in Liverpool where they still perform every Thursday and Saturday, packing the club out and creating a unique Beatles vibe. All four members are accomplished multi-instrumentalists allowing them to span right across The Beatles’ recording history, from Please Please Me right through to Let It Be. Having performed at International Beatle Week for the last 3 years running, the lads have been invited to return again for 2024 and are also taking their extended show to theatres across the UK. The band has also appeared on the BBC and on TV in Japan and The Netherlands. This is a night not to be missed for all Beatles fans performed by a band who are quickly making a name for themselves due to their musical prowess, boundless energy and easy Liverpool wit. The Beatles were a phenomena in musical history, Beatles Complete remind you why.

Please note: All seats are unreserved. Liverpool writer and broadcaster Tony Schumacher is the author of the hit BBC TV drama series The Responder, inspired by his ten-year service in uniform with Merseyside Police. Tony will be talking about his eventful career, which has taken him from PC on the Mersey beat to a successful novelist and screenwriter.

Please note: All seats are unreserved. Enjoy a light-hearted look at grammar through the eyes of the remarkable writer and journalist Sharon Wright. You may remember, she delighted audiences at the 2023 festival with a talk based on her book Mother of the Bronts: The Life of Maria Branwell.

Please note: All seats are unreserved. Interview with author Nell Stevens who discusses celebrated Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell who spent much of her childhood in Knutsford. Includes an afternoon tea.

Please note: All seats are unreserved. A one-hour lecture followed by questions and discussion. The naturalist and author Arnold Whitworth (A.W) Boyd - Cheshire's very own Gilbert White - lived from 1885-1959. Boyd was an important contributor to The Guardian Country Diary and author of the books The Country Diary of a Cheshire Man (1946) and a volume in the celebrated New Naturalists series - A Country Parish (1951).

Please note: All seats are unreserved. Historian Steve Capstick and novelist Tony Bryan in conversation. Cheshires role in the English Civil War offers rich pickings for would-be writers of historical fiction. Apparently, the man who sentenced King Charles I to death was a Cestrian; the last battle of the war was fought on Cheshire soil and Royalist stronghold Chester city suffered a 16-month siege between 1644 and 1646!

Please note: All seats are unreserved . Louise Minchin is most famous for her 20-year stint on BBC Breakfasts red sofa, but you may also have seen her as the main news anchor on BBCs One OClock News, as well as presenting The One Show, Live Drive, Real Rescues andMissing Lives.

Please note: All seats are unreserved. Introductory talk, followed by a guided coach tour to Lewis Carrolls birthplace and Daresbury Church Visitor Centre. Go down the rabbit hole with award-winning Lewis Carroll playwright Lynn Pegler to discover the Cheshire connections of one of Britains best-loved childrens authors.

Please note: All seats are unreserved. Readings from his latest uplifting poetry collection. Lemn Sissay is one of Britains best-loved poets and a former Chancellor of Manchester University.

Creative workshop with Julia McGuinness on journal writing. Keeping a journal enables us to enrich our lives with words. We can use its pages to re-experience joys, solve problems, set priorities, celebrate achievements, express feelings, gain insight, record reflections and process what puzzles or distresses us. As writer Jessamyn West puts it, People who keep journals have life twice.

Please note: All seats are unreserved. Sarah-Clare Conlon performs an inspiring collection of new poems Flight Patterns about British birds on the red endangered list. Written in tribute to Didsbury naturalist Emily Williamson, who set up the RSPB in 1889, the poems take flight against a background of birdsong and church bells. After the interval, local historical novelist David Bissenden takes us behind the scenes of his 2021 Napoleon III crime thriller The French Emperors Woman and drops off in Frodsham for a chapter in his new novel Rivers of Silver, published this January.

Please note: All seats are unreserved. Gerald Dickens, great, great grandson of Charles Dickens, makes a welcome return to Weaver Words with a stunning show based on his famous relatives novel Nicholas Nickleby.

Can you tell a story in fewer than 500 words? David Gaffney thinks you can, and in this workshop. You will learn how to reduce ideas to an ultra-short format how to condense while keeping your story effective, powerful and easy to understand; how to manage character, description, point of view and dialogue; and how to reduce a thousand words to 150 without losing a thing.

After the success of Made of Stone Roses 2024 debut gig at the Frodsham Communtiy Centre we will be back in our home town again to round off what has been a great year of live shows and festival appearances, this time joined by the superb Echoes of the Bunnymen. The night will be an absolute must for fans of the Roses and The Bunnymen so bring on the dancing horses this is going to be the one!