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Oxford Literary Festival

Mon 23 Mar

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Weston Library

Vikki Heywood and Francis Spufford. Chaired by Suzi Feay. Festival Debuts: Miss Veal and Miss Ham Weston Lecture Theatre, Oxford, OX1 3BG Monday 23rd March 2026 2:00PM Debut novelist Dame Vikki Heywood and established novelist Francis Spufford discuss their work.

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Oxford Literary Festival
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23 Mar 2026, 14:00 – 15:00

Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, UK

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Dame Vikki Heywood was Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2003 until 2012 and before that Joint Chief Executive of the Royal Court Theatre.  She has been an executive producer of many West End and Broadway productions, including Matilda the Musical. She was Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts 2012-2018 and in 2020 was awarded a Damehood for services to the Arts. This is her first novel.​​​

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Muswell Press is a prize-winning independent publisher. The company has been shortlisted for the British Book Award’s Small Trade Press of the Year for the last 4 years and has an outstanding reputation for publishing Debut, Crime and Queer fiction.  Jon Ransom won the Polari First Book Prize with The Whale Tattoo in 2023 and in 2024 went on to win the Polari Book Prize with The Gallopers. The only author to do so in consecutive years. Helen Erichsen was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger 2023. 

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For press information please contact fiona@brownleedonald.com

For rights information please contact Andrea Joyce, andrea@joyceliterary.com

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Miss Veal and Miss Ham – Vikki Heywood, July 2025

- pb ISBN: 9781838340100 eISBN: 978173919306 - www.muswell-press.co.uk

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