LONDON Matthew Dennison examines the lives and reigns of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II, at the National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, September 3, 1.15pm, £3, concs £2. Visit npg.org.uk for more details
LONDON David Lagercrantz discusses The Girl in the Spider’s Web, his follow-up to the Stieg Larsson trilogy, at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, WC2, September 4, 7pm, £8/ £20. More at foyles.co.uk
MANCHESTER Anthony Horovitz talks about his new James Bond novel, Trigger Mortis, at Manchester Central Library, St Peters Square, September 9, 7pm, £8/£6 (0843 208 0500)
YORK Rick Stein signs copies of his Eastern Mediterranean recipe book, From Venice to Istanbul, at Waterstones, Coney Street, September 5, 1pm, free (01904 620 784)
OXFORD Shakespearean scholar Stanley Wells celebrates the writer, at the Bodleian Library, Broad Street, September 3, 7pm, £12 (01865 333 623)