Winter Festival 2025

Sat 22 November – Sun 23 November

TICKETS ON SALE

We don’t hold a waiting list for sold out events but our returns are immediately put back into stock so do check back from time to time.

Events available to watch as livestream display a screen icon on the event tile.

 

All events Winter Festival 2025 One-Off Events Schools Events
Irvine Welsh book
Nicola Sturgeon
Natalie Haynes book
Wendy Cope book
Katie Piper book
Ian McEwan
John Suchet book
Philip Coggan book
Zadie Smith book
Mrs Dalloway book
TomMcTague book
Marina Wheeler book
Lady Hale book
BOnnie book
Mick Herron book
Megan Hunter book
Olia Hercules book
Alison Stockham book
Kate Rhodes book
Larry Lamb book
Tim Gregory
Bee Wilson book
Partha Dasgupta
Saabira Chaudhuri
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27 events

Sat 22 Nov 2025

Philippe Sands & Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Philippe Sands & Juan Gabriel Vásquez | Light in Dark Places (Livestream available)
Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway 100 | Megan Hunter, Alex Clark & Tom Crewe
Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith | Dead and Alive
Tom McTague Marina Wheeler Andrew Marr

Tom McTague, Marina Wheeler, Andrew Marr | Europe (Livestream available)
Brenda Hale

Lady Hale | With the Law on Our Side (Livestream available)
Bonnie Lander Johnson

Bonnie Lander Johnson | Vanishing Landscapes
Nicola Upson

Nicola Upson | The Christmas Clue
Mick Herron

Mick Herron | The Slow Horses are Back!
Megan Hunter

Megan Hunter | Days of Light
Olia Hercules

Olia Hercules | A Ukrainian Family Story
John Cleese

John Cleese | Fawlty Towers: Fawlts and All
Philip Coggan

Philip Coggan | Mr Trump’s Trade Wars
Kate-Rhodes-Alison-Stockham

Kate Rhodes & Alison Stockham | Thrillers to Chill Us
Larry Lamb

Larry Lamb | From Stage to Page
Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh | Men in Love

Sun 23 Nov 2025

Lyse Doucet

Lyse Doucet | A People’s History of Afghanistan (Livestream available)
Tim Gregory

Tim Gregory | Going Nuclear
Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan | What We Can Know (Livestream available)
Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson | Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects
John Suchet

John Suchet | An Ode to the Joy of Beethoven
Katie Piper

Katie Piper | Still Beautiful: On Age, Beauty & Owning Your Space
Wendy Cope

Wendy Cope | Collected Poems
Partha Dasgupta

Partha Dasgupta | The Value of The World Around Us
Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes | The Myth of Medea Retold (Livestream available)
Saabira Chaudhuri

Saabira Chaudhuri | How We Got Hooked on Plastic
Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon | The Person Behind the Politics (Livestream available)
Jean-Pierre Filiu

Jean-Pierre Filiu | A Historian in Gaza
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