WRITER, broadcaster, and entertainer supreme, Pam Ayres MBE will appear at Wells Festival of Literature promoting her latest book.

Pam has made the nation last for forty years, and from September 2024, she will embark on a new tour of theatres and literary festivals — heading to Wells on Saturday, October 19.

The writer's new book, ‘Going Doggedly On: Collected Poems – 1970s to 2020s' is due to be published by Edbury on October 3, which is National Poetry Day fittingly.

Pam’s other recently published titles have included ‘Pam Ayres on Animals’, UK bestselling poetry book of 2021, and ‘Who are you Calling Vermin?’ in 2022.

She is also the author of several best-selling poetry collections, including ‘The Works’, ‘With These Hands’, ‘Surgically Enhanced’, ‘You made me Late Again!’, and ‘Up in the Attic.’ She is one of only a few authors to have had their books included in the Sunday Times bestseller charts in almost every decade since the 1970s. You will be able to see her in Wells this autumn.

She is one of the few authors who have had books in the Sunday Times bestseller charts in almost every decade since the 1970s.

Many of her poems are in school textbooks around the world. Pam’s autobiography, ‘The Necessary Aptitude’ was the UK’s bestselling female autobiography of 2011.

She first appeared on TV in 1975, winning the TV talent show ‘Opportunity Knocks’, and has performed to audiences across the globe.

She was appointed an MBE for her services to literature and entertainment in 2004 and appeared to joyful crowds on the Glastonbury stage in 2022.

In that same year, when she wrote ‘Who are You Calling Vermin?’, Pam wrote that as the lyrics for a musical for which she is collaborating with composer George Fenton – plans are progressing for the stage production in 2025.

In 2023, Macmillian’s Children’s Books published the first of four in a series of children’s books, written by Pam.

Pam grew up in Stanford in the Vale, rural Oxfordshire, and now resides in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.