The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

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Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Meanwhile, make the sauce: first chop the lime, peel included, into rough, small pieces and put into a small blender. Add the spring onions, ginger, coriander (stalks and all), honey, soy and oil and blitz to a thin, bright-green paste. I loved the whole atmosphere of the Oxford Literary Festival. From breakfast, alongside some of the attendees, who were talking books with each other a mile a minute, to the public event at The Sheldonian where everyone was lively and engaged – I felt I had arrived in a kind of literary heaven. A zing thing: Anna Jones’s lime and double ginger weeknight soba. Photograph: Matt Jones for the Guardian

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I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions.Every literary festival stays in an author’s mind for slightly individual reasons. I shall remember the Oxford festival for: