$\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\nEssex Book Festival<\/h3>\n
For the month of June, the book festival takes over the county of Essex, with over a hundred events in venues including Chelmsford Theatres, Basildon Library, the University of Essex and Wivenhoe Bookshop. As well as events with authors, the festival includes events for local authors and aspiring writers, talks for kids and writing workshops.<\/p>\n
Its 2022 edition includes a foraging walk, an event combining words and harp music, an interactive session for children to learn about honeybees and a guided walk.<\/p>\n
1-30 June 2022<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
Find out more on the Essex Book Festival website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Edinburgh International Book Festival<\/strong><\/h3>\n
One of the UK\u2019s longest-running literary festivals, the Edinburgh Book Festival has been running from 1983. It now runs over 900 events every August and since the pandemic has extended its hybrid live-digital offerings. It will continue to be hosted at the Edinburgh College of Art until 2024, at which point it will move to the Edinburgh Futures Institute. The festival also heads out on the road around Scotland, with author events put on in Scottish prisons, hospitals and arts centres. Previous featured authors have included Prue Leith, Ali Smith, Max Porter, Carol Ann Duffy and Ruth Davidson.<\/p>\n
13-29 August 2022<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
Find out more on the Edinburgh Book Festival website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Queen\u2019s Park Book Festival<\/h3>\n
The Queen\u2019s Park area of London has become a bit of a hotspot for book lovers, ever since the highly popular independent bookshop Queen\u2019s Park Books opened in 2004. The area\u2019s eponymous 30-acre park now plays host to the only London book festival held solely in a public park.\u00a0Previous authors to have attended the festival include Zadie Smith, Tessa Hadley, Richard Coles, Bernardine Evaristo and Elif Shafak. Plus, the Queen\u2019s Park Community Tent has helped champion local authors and under-represented groups from the community throughout each iteration of the festival.<\/p>\n
17-18 September 2022<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
Find out more on the Queen\u2019s Park Book Festival website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Henley Literary Festival<\/h3>\n
Since launching in 2007, Henley has fast become one of the UK\u2019s biggest literature festivals, hosting 130 events in its 2021 edition, with guests including Joanna Lumley, Ed Miliband, Clare Balding and Jeffrey Archer. The Henley Children\u2019s Festival runs alongside the main literary festival programme, which includes events for children and a special programme for schools.<\/p>\n
1-9 October 2022<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
Find out more on the Henley Literary Festival website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Cliveden Literary Festival<\/h3>\nSet high above the Thames, the magnificent Cliveden House boasts stunning gardens, architectural design and, since 2017, a leading literary festival, attracting some of the UK\u2019s leading novelists, historians, journalists and politicians. Helpfully, the festival has uploaded most \u2013 if not all \u2013 the recordings of its 2021 events onto YouTube<\/strong><\/a> for you to listen back to.<\/p>\n
15-16 October 2022<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
Find out more on the Cliveden Literary Festival website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
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The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival is said to be the oldest literary festival in the world, formed in 1949. If you happen to be on holiday during the the glut of summer literature festivals, you\u2019re in luck \u2013 Cheltenham\u2019s takes place in autumn. It celebrates the best new novels, memoirs, non-fiction, comedy and spoken word, with events held around the town centre and in pop-up tents in Montpellier Gardens.<\/p>\n
The 2021 edition of the Cheltenham Literature Festival featured the likes of Jeanette Winterson, James Rebanks, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Beard and Sebastian Faulks. Thanks to its sponsorship from\u00a0The Times\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Sunday Times<\/em>, the festival also features panel events with the newspapers\u2019 top journalists and columnists.\u00a0The Gloucestershire town also hosts the Jazz, Music and Science Festivals every year.<\/p>\n
7-16 October 2022<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
Find out more on the Cheltenham Literature Festival website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Held at the Southbank Centre every year, the longest-running literature festival in the capital celebrates the written and spoken word. Previous guests have included former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, author Kate Mosse and comedian Daisy May Cooper.<\/p>\n
20-30 October 2022<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
Find out more on the London Literature Festival website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
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