TOMORROW (SATURDAY JUNE 2) Creativity talk: Novelist Lindsay Clarke on "Creativity and the Imagination". Waterperry House, near Wheatley. To book, contact Linda Proud, 60 Godstow Road, Wolvercote, Oxford OX2 8NY, tel. 01865 556215, info@godstowpress.co.uk SUNDAY Workshop: Novelist Lindsay Clarke on "Getting a Novel off to a Dramatic Start". Ferry Centre, Summertown, Oxford. To book a £25 place, contact Linda Proud, 60 Godstow Road, Wolvercote, Oxford OX2 8NY, tel. 01865 556215, info@godstowpress.co.uk TUESDAY Talk: Christopher Phillips on his new philosophical work Socrates in Love. 7pm, Blackwell Bookshop, Broad Street, Oxford. For free tickets, call 01865 333623.

Talk: Anthony Horowitz asks 'Who are the bad guys? How modern politics changed the way we look at children's books.' Not for under 13s. Oxford Union, Frewin Court. Tickets, Blackwell Bookshop, tel 01865 333623.

THURSDAY Talk: Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, with Oxford explorer Redmond O'Hanlon. Oxford University Centre for the Environment (OUCE), South Parks Road, Oxford. Tickets, £2, from Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford, tel 01865 333623.

oPoetry reading: Poet Jenny Lewis speaks. 8pm, OU Poetry Society, St Anne's College, Oxford.

Details of book-related events can be sent to Maggie Hartford, The Oxford Times, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0EJ, or emailed to maggie.hartford@nqo.com.