It's only a week until this year's Henley Literary Festival kicks off with a combination of in person and livestreamed events between Friday 3rd and Sunday 12th October. Authors appearing at this year's Festival include Ben Okri, Michael Palin, Mary Beard, the Reverend Richard Coles, Andrew Lownie and Vaseem Khan. There's also a varied programme of children's events. All in the beautiful setting of Henley-on-Thames.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to…