Terry Deary will be at Malton Museum Roman Festival 2026

Terry Deary, whose books include Rotten Roman and Ruthless Romans will be at the event on Sunday, July 19, at Orchard Fields.

Terry has written over 351 books – fiction and non-fiction – selling over 38+ million copies in 45 languages.

His best-known children’s book titles are the “Horrible Histories” series, first published in 1993 and still popular thanks to a CBBC television series, theatre shows and a movie based on the books.

Terry will be giving a talk and will sign copies of his latest book ‘Revolting’ and any of his other books, which will be available to buy at the festival.

Another great addition this year will be acclaimed author Lindsay Davis. A prolific author of fiction set within the Ancient Roman period, Lindsay’s ‘Falco’ mysteries run to 20 books and she will be talking to visitors about her latest book in the Flavia Albia series, ‘Murder in Purple and Gold’. She will also sign any of her other novels purchased at the festival.

Fiction writer Clive Ashman will be there too, along with kids’ authors Robin Price and Kate Cunningham with ‘Vlad the Flea in Rome’. The illustrator of the ‘Vlad’ books, Sam Cunningham, will run cartoon drawing workshops for those aspiring artists.

Popular historian, Dr Simon Elliott, author of ‘The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius Severus’ will be in attendance once again, giving one of his very engaging talks.

Along the authors, there will be an re-enactment village and cavalry camp, historical, archaeological and other Roman themed activities for all the family.

The Festival runs from 10am to 4pm. Tickets are £10 per adult, with free entry for children under 14 years old. Discounted tickets are available via the Malton Museum website until July 1.

There is free parking at the event and there are other car parks close by within Malton.

For more information go to www.maltonmuseum.co.uk