Spring Festival 2026

Wed 22 April – Sun 26 April

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Front cover of A Land in Winter
Book jacket for Fly, Wild Swans
Book cover for My Gardening Life by Mary Berry
Electric Spark book cover
Book jacket for Witch Trial by Harriet Tyce
Why I Care book cover
Book cover for Organ Speak
Martin Bond's book jackets
Book jacket of Sick of It
Book jacket of The Great Good Places
Book jacket of Made in America
Peacemaker book cover
Running on Air book cover
Book jacket for The Future in Our Past
Death of an Ordinary Man book cover
Craftland book cover
The Baton and the Cross book
Alan Hollinghurst - Our Evenings
Tender book cover
Braver New World book cover
Loki book cover
Book jacket for The World in a Phrase
Your Life is Manufactured book jacket
Super Uma book cover
Book jacket for Walking Shadow by Greg Doran
Percy the Park Keeper book cover
Book jacket for Who's The Favourite?
Book cover for Become a Genius in a Year
Book jacket for A Hard Day's Night
Book jacket for Part of the Story
Book jacket for Love's Labours
Book jacket of Look What You Made Me Do
Book jacket for After Oscar
Book jacket for Sabzi
Book jacket for Which Way to the Future
Book jacket for The Growth Story of the 21st Century
Book jacket for We Are Movement
Book jacket for History’s Most Epic Fails
Book jacket for The Mirror of Great Britain
Book jacket for Every Last Fish
Island of missing trees Elif Shafak
Book jacket of Gertrude Stein An Afterlife
Book jacket for My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
Book cover of A Year of Cut Flowers
Book jacket of Gordon Brown: Power with Purpose
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Headshot of Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller | The Land in Winter
Headshot of Frances Wilson

Frances Wilson | Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark
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Mary Berry | My Gardening Life
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Literary Lunch with Harriet Tyce
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Ed Davey | Why I Care and Why Care Matters
Headshot of Giulia Enders

Giulia Enders | Organ Speak: What It Really Means to Listen to Our Bodies
Headshot of Martin Bond

Martin Bond | A Cambridge Diary
Headshot of Sarah Raven

Sarah Raven | A Year of Cut Flowers: a life of growing and arranging for all seasons
Headshot of Sophie Harman

Sophie Harman | Sick of It: the global fight for women’s health
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AI and the Novel
Headshot of Edward Stourton

Edward Stourton | Made in America: the dark history that led to Donald Trump
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Margaret Drabble | The Books That Made Me
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Thant Myint-U | Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations, and the Untold Story of the 1960s
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Sophie Raworth | Running on Air: From headlines to finish lines
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Sarah Perry | Death of an Ordinary Man
Callum Cant and Matthew Lee

Callum Cant & Matthew Lee | The 1926 General Strike
Headshot of Caroline Lucas with the text 'Lecture: The State of Nature' on a blue background.

Caroline Lucas | Lecture: The State of Nature
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Lucy Ash | Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin
Cambridge Series: James Fox

James Fox | Craftland
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John Kampfner | Braver New World: the countries daring to do what others won’t
Harry Baker headshot

Harry Baker | Tender: 100 poems for the first 100 days of life
Headshot of Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst | The Books That Made Me
Tim Minshall headshot

Tim Minshall | Your Life is Manufactured
Headshot of James Geary

James Geary | The World in a Phrase: a brief history of the aphorism
Louie Stowell headshot

Louie Stowell | Loki Live! A Bad God’s Guide to Causing Chaos
Author Rashmi Sirdeshpande

Rashmi Sirdeshpande | Super Uma
Collage image of authors Margaret Busby, Sam Leith, and Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed, Sam Leith & Margaret Busby | Writers on Reading
Rachel Clarke headshot

Rachel Clarke | Lecture: The State of the Nation
Nick Butterworth headshot

Nick Butterworth | Percy the Park Keeper! Stories from the Park
Author Greg Doran leaning on a table with a skull ornament, which is labelled

Greg Doran | Love, Loss and Shakespeare
Headshot of Catherine Carr

Catherine Carr | Who’s the Favourite? The loving, messy realities of sibling relationships
A broken image of a Union Jack flag with the Houses of Parliament in shards behind it

New Statesman Debate | This house believes that Britain’s best days are behind it
Mike Rampton

Mike Rampton | Become a Genius
Headshot of Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed | A Hard Day’s Night
Headshot of Margaret Busby

Margaret Busby | Part of the Story – writings from half a century
Headshot of author Stephen Grosz

Stephen Grosz | Love’s Labour
Headshot of John Lanchester lowering his glasses and peering over them

John Lanchester | Look What You Made Me Do
Headshot of author Steve Richards

Steve Richards | Rock ‘n Roll Politics
Headshot of Merlin Holland

Merlin Holland | After Oscar: the legacy of a scandal
Headshot of Yasmin Khan

Yasmin Khan | Sabzi: fresh vegetarian recipes for every day
Headshot of Lord Nicholas Stern

Lord Nicholas Stern | The Growth Story of the 21st Century: the economics and opportunity of climate action
Book cover of Lolly Willowes with headshots of Harriet Baker, Alex Clark and Peter Swaab

Harriet Baker, Alex Clark & Peter Swaab | Lolly Willowes at 100
breakfast with the editors

Breakfast with the Editors | Ailbhe Rea, Ethan Croft, Megan Kenyon & Anoosh Chakelian
Headshot of Cressida Cowell

Cressida Cowell | Which Way to the Future
Headshot of Athena Kugblenu

Athena Kugblenu | History’s Most Epic Fails
Headshot of Wayne McGregor

Wayne McGregor | We Are Movement
Headshot of Clare Jackson

Clare Jackson | The Mirror of Great Britain
Headshot of Jude Simpson

Jude Simpson | A Noise Annoys Show
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Deborah Levy | Room of One’s Own Lecture
Headshot of Rose George

Rose George | Every Last Fish: what fish do for us and what we do to them
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Stay at the University Arms or dine at Parker’s Tavern

Why not make a weekend of it? Stay at the 5-star University Arms hotel during the festival, enjoy a cocktail in the bar or dine at Parker’s Tavern restaurant.

Luxury rooms and suites across four floors, with view over Parker’s Piece, historic Regent Street and the hotel’s inner courtyard.

Benefactors & Patrons receive a 15% discount when booking.

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