Henley Literary Festival Goes Online
Now in it’s fourteenth year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Henley Literary Festival, established as one of the UK’s biggest book festivals, is going online.
This year’s line up encompasses a line up of 40 events for adults and children. This Autumn both during the Festival week (September 26 – October 4) and before and after, instead of bringing tens of thousands of Festival-goers to Henley-on-Thames the festival team will be bringing over sixty speakers into your own home! Fancy a glass of wine on your sofa with Graham Norton or a cup of tea with Nadiya Hussain?
You can alway expect a fabulous range of authors appearing at the festival and this year is no different. Familiar faces including Graham Norton, Nadiya Hussain, Damon Hill, Susie Dent and Fern Britton will be coming to your screens alongside bestsellers such as Joanna Trollope, David Mitchell, Jodi Picoult, John Boyne and Lynda La Plante.
Events for children and their grown-ups include Michael Morpurgo, Laura & Russell Brand, Ben Fogle, Rob Biddulph and David Baddiel. Newer writers like Candice Brathwaite, Libby Page, Erica Davies, Paul Mendez and Raynor Winn are on the line-up as well as returning Festival favourites Bryony Gordon, Jeremy Vine, Kate Humble, Nikita Gill and Gill Hornby, and two of their most popular speakers together for the first time as Craig Brown & Alan Johnson talk Beatles.
Millions of years of history will be covered by Andrew Marr, Greg Jenner, Kavita Puri and Peter Snow, plus being brought right up to date by former US Ambassador Kim Darroch and columnists Polly Toynbee and Daniel Finkelstein.
Tickets go on sale to Friends of the Festival at 9am on Thursday 6th August and to all at 9am on Tuesday 11th August. For more information about the festival and to buy tickets visit henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk
