Past International Guests
Past International guests have included Isabel Allende, John Ashbery, Margaret Atwood, Alain de Botton, Melvyn Bragg, André Brink, Bill Bryson, A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Paulo Coelho, J. M. Coetzee, Douglas Coupland, Andrew Davies, Roddy Doyle, Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, A. C. Grayling, Seamus Heaney, Oscar Hijuelos, Elizabeth Jolley, Terry Jones, Robert Jordan, Frank McCourt, Robert Muchamore, Edna O'Brien, Ben Okri, Annie Proulx, Ian Rankin, Ruth Rendell, Louis Sachar, Vikram Seth, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift, Joanna Trollope and Xue Xinran.
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