Graham Harrison

Writer & critic Miranda Seymour at Exeter College before her talk, ‘I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys’. The 2023 FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, Oxford, 30 March 2023. Photo © Graham Harrison. Seymour had stayed the night at Garsington Manor then driven to the Park & Ride.

Charlotte Philby author of ‘Edith and Kim’, a novel about her grandfather the spy Kim Philby and photographer Edith Tudor-Hart. Photographed at St Cross College, Oxford. FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 30 March 2022. Photo © Graham Harrison.

Exiled Russian businessman and opposition activist, Mikhail Khodorkovsky who in 2003 was believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, before his talk ’The Russia Conundrum’ with Martin Sixsmith at the Sheldonian Theatre. The 2023 FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, Exeter College, Oxford, 28 March 2023. Photo © Graham Harrison.

Simon McDonald (Baron McDonald of Salford, GCMG, KCV), former ambassador & head of the Diplomatic Service outside the Divinity Hall before his talk with journalist Nick Higham ‘Leadership: Lessons for Running a Better Government’ at the Sheldonian Theatre. The 2023 FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, Oxford, 30 March 2023. Photo © Graham Harrison.

Sherine Tadros former Sky News & Al Jazeera correspondent, now Deputy Director of Advocacy & UN Representative for Amnesty International, before her talk ’Taking Sides: A Memoir about Love, War & Changing the World’ in the Bodleian Divinity School. The 2023 FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 27 March 2023. Photo © Graham Harrison.

Howard Jacobson, 2010 Man Booker prize winning novelist outside the Divinity School before his talk ‘Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings’ at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 31 March 2022. Photo © Graham Harrison.

BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen in front of the Chancellor’s Court, part of the Bodleian Libraries, before his talk ‘The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History’ at the Sheldonian Theatre during the 2023 FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 27 March 2023. Photo © Graham Harrison.

Children’s author Katherine Rundell outside the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, during the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 26 March 2022. Photo © Graham Harrison

Sir Michael Morpurgo author of Warhorse (1982) at Exeter College on the first day of the 2023 FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 25 March 2023. Morpurgo spoke about his charity Farms for City Children at the Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture in the Sheldonian Theatre. Photo © Graham Harrison.

Lea Ypi, Albanian academic and professor of political theory at the London Schiool of Economics, before her talk ‘Living Through History: The Turbulent End of Communism’ with Dutch novelist Pieter Waterdrinker. Ypi’s biography ‘Free: Coming of Age at the End of History’ was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, the Costa Prize for Biography and was named the 2021 Sunday Times' memoir of the year. The Oxford Martin School, Broad Street during the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 27 March 2022. Photo © Graham Harrison.

Ben Okri, 1991 Booker prize-winning novelist to on steps beside the Sheldonian Theatre during the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 27 March 2022. Photo © Graham Harrison

Xiaolu Guo, Chinese-British novelist and filmmaker at St Cross College, Oxford, before her talk with Angus Phillips ‘China Lecture: Life and Work’ at the Weston Lecture Theatre. FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 30 March 2022. Photo © Graham Harrison.

International lawyer and writer Philippe Sands KC at the Clarendon Building following his talk ‘Chatwin, Patagonia, and the Bodleian: Searching of a Nazi’ with Richard Ovenden at the Weston Library, Oxford on the first day of the 2023 FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 25 March 2023. Photo © Graham Harrison.

Janina Ramirez, author and historian on the steps of the Clarendon Building, Broad Street during the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 27 March 2022. Photo © Graham Harrison