Interest in Bridport Literary Festival events continues to grow - more events have been sold out this week.

These include Sheila Hancock, Hugh Bonneville, Jeremy Bowen and Giles Milton, in addition to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and PJ Harvey, who sold out almost as soon as tickets went on public sale on 26th August.

But there is still plenty to interest readers of all genres, with a variety of events lined up for the festival, which takes place in venues across Bridport from 6th - 12th November.

Tickets for the Bridport Literary Festival are selling quickly.

Bryan Appleyard's The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World is receiving rave reviews - including one in The New York Times this week.

Appleyard will be in conversation with Boris Starling at The Electric Palace on Friday 11th November 2022.

Melvyn Bragg, the well-known broadcaster will also be speaking at The Electric Palace at this year's BridLit on the same day.

In his memoir, Back In The Day, he revisits his childhood and youth, growing up above a pub in the bustling Cumbrian market town of Wigton, surrounded by the inspirational beauty of the lakeland landscape. From the early years alone with his mother, while his father fought in the war, to the moment he left for Oxford University and pastures new, this is the captivating memoir of a working-class boy with a passion for books.

Kit de Waal twice won The Bridport Prize for her flash fiction, which she acknowledges has very much helped in her writing career.

She's also at BridLit on 11th November, talking about her memoir, Without Warning and Only Sometimes – Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood, from which she read in August for Radio 4.

Kit de Waal has built a wide and loyal following of readers for her extraordinary stories of apparently ordinary lives. She is the author of the novels My Name is Leon, which was shortlisted for the Costa Frist Novel Award and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and The Trick To Time which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and a short story collection, Supporting Cast.

Greg Mosse is the husband of Kate Mosse, who wrote the Languedoc Trilogy, which began with Labyrinth. He is also a writer and has just brought out The Coming Darkness, which has been described as 'Bladerunner meets John Le Carre'.

He'll be in conversation with Jason Goodwin at The Bull Ballroom on Monday 7th November.

Set in an alternate near future in which global warming and pathogenic viruses have torn through the fabric of society, the debut novel follows a secret operative trailing an eco-terrorist set on destabilising the controls placed on the global population to protect them from climate change.

Anthony Horowitz says: "This is exactly the sort of big, meaty, ambitious thriller that the market needs. I haven't read a book like this since I Am Pilgrim."

And Lee Child has this to say: "Superb – there's an ominous drumbeat throughout, and pace and tension, and a subtle and scarily plausible dystopia – and above all there's main character Alex Lamarque, who could be one of the greats. Greg Mosse writes like John Le Carré's hip grandson."

Click here to see more news from BridLit and find out how to get tickets.