John Lloyd, Craig Brown, Helen Zaltzman, Alex Bellos

For the first time ever Ex Libris the booklover's favourite game comes out of the parlour and on to the stage at the 2015 FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival.

Go along and watch some of the wittiest wordsmiths John Lloyd Craig Brown Helen Zaltzman and Alex Bellos bluff and counter bluff as they write fake but plausible opening or closing sentences to genuine books attempting to fool fellow players into believing that their scripts are the authentic first lines or last words of these works.