BOOK fans can look forward to a host of events with top writers over the coming week, organised by local bookseller Rossiter.

Award-winning TV historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes will be winging in to Monmouth's Savoy on Tuesday, May 28, to talk about her new book The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

She will be taking a trip back in time to the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Temple of Artemis and the statue of Zeus at Olympia.

Not to forget the mausoleum of Halikarnassos, the Colossus at Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

They were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet and Bettany will be charting their construction, fame and legacy.

Three days later on Friday, May 31, it will be the turn of bestselling historian Jonathan Dimbleby, who will be opening the pages on his new book Endgame 1944, which charts the year that sealed the fate of Hitler's Nazi regime and secured victory for Stalin.

Drawing on previously untranslated German, Russian and Polish sources, the book reveals how sophisticated new forms of deception and ruthless Partisan warfare shifted the Soviets’ fortunes, and laid the foundations for the Cold War.

Meanwhile, master storyteller Conn Iggulden will introduce the first instalment of his new Nero trilogy, taking the reader deep into the heart of the Roman tyranny, at Rossiter's Ross store on Thursday, May 23.

Green MP Caroline Lucas will also be talking about her new book Another England at St Mary's Church, Ross-on-Wye, on Friday, May 24, which delves into our literary heritage, what it says about us, and how we can sketch out a greener future.

Tickets are available from Rossiter Books in Monmouth and Ross (rossiterbooks.co.uk) and all talks start at 7pm.