Cheltenham Literature Festival has announced its star-studded line-up for 2018.

Sir David Attenborough, Mary Beard, Gary Barlow, and Sally Field are just some of the celebrities who will be heading to the book festival, which is on from October 5 to October 14.

Forty years since the original publication, Sir David will discuss his completely new edition of the groundbreaking Life on Earth with journalist and broadcaster Emma Freud.

Emma Freud will also be speaking to Gary Barlow about his autobiography A Better Me in which he talks of his battles with weight, stress, fitness and depression, and how he staged his professional comeback.

Booker Prize-winning Regeneration author Pat Barker, one of the great contemporary writers on war, discusses The Silence of the Girls with Mary Beard, her powerful reimagining of the most famous of all conflicts in literature: the Trojan War.

Double Oscar-winning actor Sally Field is renowned for her artistic range and rich characters in TV and films including Forrest Gump, Lincoln and Mrs Doubtfire. Now she turns her attention to her own remarkable story and discusses her memoir In Pieces.

Tickets for members go on sale on Wednesday, August 29 at 1pm, with bookings open to the public on Wednesday, September 5 at 1pm.

Literary stalwarts will also be there, including Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman and Anthony Horowitz.

See the full line-up on the festival’s website: cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/whats-on/grid