The Cliveden Literary Festival is set to take place from Saturday, 11 to Sunday, 12 October at Cliveden House in Berkshire. Returning for its eighth year, the festival is a unique forum for lively discussion, thought-provoking ideas, and political debate.
Last year, Elif Shafak described the festival as a cultural space we leave “feeling much more nurtured, nourished and inspired”. Rachel Eliza Griffiths said, “The setting of Cliveden… is a kind of mirror of the beauty that I find in books”.
The 2024 programme featured: Salman Rushdie, Rachel Weisz, William Boyd, Ian McEwan, Tom Holland, Emily Maitlis, John Banville, Neil Jordan, Robert Harris, Patrick Radden Keefe, Niall Ferguson, Elif Shafak, Helen Castor, Dan Jones, William Dalrymple, Alex Younger, Michael Gove, Merve Emre, Nicole Taylor, and many more.
Cliveden Literary Festival is run by a committee of authors and historians – Andrew Roberts, Natalie Livingstone, Catherine Ostler and Simon Sebag Montefiore – drawing on Cliveden House’s unique history as a literary salon frequented by writers and thinkers including Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift and Sir Winston Churchill.
Tickets will go on sale in July 2025. Visitors to Cliveden Literary Festival will also have the opportunity to explore the beautiful National Trust gardens and enjoy scenic walks down to the River Thames.
Cliveden House, operated by the Iconic Luxury Hotel group, has been awarded a Forbes Travel Guide Star Award and a Condé Nast Johansens Award for Excellence.
