LITERARY ZONE

Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16 Cliveden Literary Festival

Cliveden House

Drawing on Cliveden’s history as a literary salon, this year’s festival will once again bring together a superlative international line-up of writers and thinkers.

A sell-out success every year, the Cliveden Literary Festival is, for Ian McEwan, ‘probably the world’s best small literary festival,’ and, for Alain de Botton, ‘the most dignified and beautiful literary festival on the planet.’

Natalie Livingstone, chairman of the Cliveden Literary Festival, said: “We are thrilled to be welcoming book lovers to the Cliveden Literary Festival, which is now in its fifth year. Cliveden House has been a sanctuary for lovers of literature and lively discussion for more than 350 years, and the Cliveden Literary Festival 2022 will continue that stellar cultural history.”

Previous speakers at the Cliveden Literary Festival include Amor Towles, Emerald Fennell, Peter Frankopan, Chibundu Onuzo, Lionel Shriver, Dan Jones, Kate Mosse, Ian McEwan, Robert Harris, Kwasi Kwarteng, Sir Richard Dearlove, Cherie Blair and Armando Ianucci.

The festival launched in 2017 and continues the rich literary heritage of Cliveden House, which has inspired writers and thinkers from Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Bernard Shaw and Jonathan Swift to Sir Winston Churchill.

Other previous speakers at the Cliveden Literary Festival include: Niall Ferguson, Alain de Botton, Sir Simon Schama, Elif Shafak, Sebastian Faulks, Lady Antonia Fraser, David Baddiel, Lior Raz, Kate Bingham, General David Petraeus, Michael Gove, Camilla Long, Stephen Frears, Priti Patel, Hallie Rubenhold, Leila Slimani, Emily Maitlis, Bret Easton Ellis, Ben Okri, Professor Brian Cox and Hanif Kureishi.