Winter Festival 2026
Saturday 21 – Sunday 22 November
Priority booking dates:
Patrons & Benefactors – Monday 7 September
Friends of the Festival – Tuesday 8 September
General sale – Friday 11 September
Winter Festival updates
With our Spring Festival behind us, we turn our attention to Winter. Once again we look forward to filling our stages over a November weekend with a line-up of literary delights that we can’t wait to share with you.
You can explore the first names for our Winter programme below, which we hope will give you a flavour of all the exciting events to come.
Zahra Joya
Michael Murpurgo
Emily Wilson
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Patrick Gale
Laura Kuenssberg
Sathnam Sanghera
Mariana Mazzucato
Become a Friend to access Priority Booking
Don’t miss out on the events that you want to see. Be part of the conversation, many of our speakers sold out last year. By becoming a Friend of the festival you can secure two seats at all of our best selling events.