Tickets On Sale for the 10th Emirates Airline Festival of Literature

Comedian, actor and author David Walliams will be returning to Dubai, and is the mind behind internationally bestselling children’s books, including ‘The Midnight Gang’ and ‘Gangsta Granny’.

Anthony Horowitz will be appearing with his new Alex Ride novel, ‘Never say Die’ – which is currently being adapted for television.

For anyone who has seen the film ‘Lion’ starring Dev Patel before, you should already know Saroo Brierley’s story. His autobiography ‘A Long Way Home’ inspired the Oscar-nominated film, and at this year’s 10th edition of EAFOL he’ll be talking about the new book he’s working on.

While she might be the daughter of the legendary science-fiction author, Terry Pratchett, Rhianna Pratchett is an award-winning writer in her own right; for games, films, comics and television. At this year’s EAFOL, she’ll be talking about the immensely popular reimagining of the video game, Tomb Raider.

Having penned more than 100 books, he’s one of the world’s most prolific authors and his work includes the internationally best-selling, ‘No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency’ series, as well as ’44 Scotland Street’.

She’s one of Britain’s most admired poets and is the current UK Poet Laureate, and is best known for the critically-acclaimed, ‘The World’s Wife’.

One of our favourites every year is this Dubai-based author, who’s work includes the award-winning children’s books ‘The Case of the Exploding Loo’, ‘The Case of the Exploding Brains’ and the ‘Unicorn in New York’ series.

He’s the award-winning illustrator of over 800 books, including the immensely successful ‘Horrid Henry’ and ‘Little Princess’ series – he’s also the illustrator for David Walliams work.

This British author is the writer of the autobiography, ‘Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen:, which chronicles her life with the renowned physicist, Stephen Hawking, which has since been adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film titled ‘The Theory of Everything’, starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones.

A world-renowned biographer, whose subjects have included Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie and Madonna. He was also behind the sensational account of Princess Diana’s life, ‘Diana: Her True Story’. He’ll be discussing his latest work, ’17 Carnations’, in which he examines the cover-up of Edward VIII’s Nazi connections.

She’s one half of Richard & Judy, and is the co-founder of Richard & Judy’s Book Club. She’s also the author of ‘Eloise’ and ‘I Do Not Sleep’.