I’ll be chairing The Times Debate — Is this a golden age of science writing? — at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival on June 12, at 4 pm. Come hear three brilliant panellists discuss this topic: Rebecca Skloot, Graham Farmelo and Ben Miller.

The Shakespeare and Company Literary Festival is on in Paris, 18-20 June. I’ll be speaking with Philip Pullman, Jeanette Winterson, Petina Gappah and Nam Le — but the festival programme is filled with many other wonderful authors too. And it’s free!