The literary bill continues to thrill and inspire with the critically acclaimed Marcel Theroux confirmed for the Literary Arena reading from his new novel Strange Bodies. Award-winning poet, non-fiction writer, novelist and dramatist Owen Sheers, who will bring Pink Mist, a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan, as heard on BBC Radio 4 and Julie Myerson who will read from her new supernatural fiction The Quickening.

Once again Latitude lives up to its reputation of presenting an increcibly strong Theatre programme, as well as those already confirmed is Arcola Theatre from East London, with a Latitude premiere entitled Mirrorball and documentary-theatre company Look Left Look Right, who will premiere their brand new immersive children’s show The Many Whoops of Whoops Town at Latitude’s Outdoor Theatre. Hoipolloi will be showcasing their trademark playful imaginative style in Things I Forgot I Remembered, a theatrical collaboration with Hugh Hughes in the Theatre Arena and one of the UK’s most respected arts venues, Les Enfants Terrible will be in Pandora’s Playground with Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie, an outdoor spectacle like no other packed with Vaudeville acts, circus freaks, live music, dancers, magicians and puppeteers.

Other notable arts additions include, Salon London, who will be hosting discussions tying into the neuroscience theme with leading pathologist Suzy Lishman, regular Newsnight panellist and comic author Natalie Haynes and former policeman turned author and QI panellist Stevyn Colgan, whilst The Salon London Breakfast panel in the Literary Salon will feature Professor of Cognitive Psychology Elaine Fox and renowned psychologist Kevin Duttonasking the question Psycho/Playmate: Who Are You? ; Unlimited Theatre will take audiences on a mind-melting, jargon-free, whistle-stop tour of leading edge Quantum Physics in critically-acclaimed The Ethics of Progress and Latitude’s dear queer darlings Duckie return for the fourth year of their double staged juke joint in the Cabaret Arena.