About this Event
2026 Speakers
Jay McInerney • Julian Barnes • Candace Bushnell • Michael Connelly •
Patrick Radden Keefe • Patrick Marber • David Nicholls • Kemi Badenoch •
Katie Kitamura • Deborah Lipstadt • Robert Harris • Tom Holland • Emily Maitlis •
Peter Frankopan • Michael Moritz • Jonathan Bate • Eugene Rogan •
David McCloskey • Wes Streeting • Alex Burghart • Maurice Glasman •
John McWhorter • Misha Glenny • Michael Gove • Alice Winn •
Edward Shawcross • Ed Chisholm • Lauren Collins • James Cahill • Joanne Cash • Camilla Cavendish • Matt Goodwin • John Burn-Murdoch • Victor Sebestyen •
Imogen Edwards-Jones • Louis Sarkozy • Hermione Eyre • Alexandra Suich Bass • Hannah MacInnes • Alice Lassman • Albert Read • Chris Riopelle • Georgia Beaufort • James McAuley • Yana Peel • Tom Stuart-Smith • Sue Stuart-Smith.
...and our founders, Natalie Livingstone, Catherine Ostler, Simon Sebag Montefiore
and Andrew Roberts.
Saturday 10th October brings together an extraordinary line-up, including Kemi Badenoch, Candace Bushnell, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Robert Harris, Tom Holland, Michael Moritz, Catherine Ostler, Yana Peel, Albert Read, Andrew Roberts, Eugene Rogan, Louis Sarkozy, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Alice Winn.
Sunday 11th October promises to be every bit as memorable, with Julian Barnes, James Cahill, Edward Chisholm, Michael Connelly, Hermione Eyre, Misha Glenny, Michael Gove, Patrick Radden Keefe, Katie Kitamura, Deborah Lipstadt, Natalie Livingstone, Patrick Marber, Jay McInerney, Andrew Roberts, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Victor Sebestyen.
And there are many more besides, including Emily Maitlis, Wes Streeting, Joanne Cash, Alex Burghart, Maurice Glasman, Ayesha Hazarika, Matt Goodwin, John McWhorter, Lauren Collins, Alexandra Suich Bass, Camilla Cavendish, Alice Lassman, John Burn-Murdoch, Jonathan Bate, Georgia Beaufort, Tom Stuart-Smith and Sue Stuart-Smith.
Hear Kemi Badenoch talk to Simon Sebag Montefiore about her reinvention of the Conservative Party and the tumultous state of British politics; Robert Harris discuss Agrippa, his new novel exploring loyalty and ruthlessness at the birth of the Roman Empire, with Tom Holland; novelist Alice Winn dissects the magic of historical fiction; and Patrick Radden Keefe in conversation with Misha Glenny about his bestselling investigation into London’s underworld.
Join us for panels debating the most pressing questions of the moment, from the making of the modern Middle East to the state of America in its 250th year. Politicians and commentators including Wes Streeting, Joanne Cash, Ayesha Hazarika, Alex Burghart, Maurice Glasman and Matt Goodwin will be put to the test on the arguments dividing Westminster. In between are debates on the art of narrative; the world of Renoir; Nazi Germany and the rise and fall of Napoleon's empire; from why we are having fewer children, and fewer relationships, to our enduring love of gardens - the last of these in the most fitting of settings, the house and gardens of Cliveden itself.
Full details of the event programme will be announced soon.
Catering
There will be a variety of food vendors in the Forecourt and in the Festival Food Marquee, plus the Laurent-Perrier Bar and Horsebox Coffee in the Forecourt.
Cliveden are offering a two-course set lunch in the Cliveden Dining Room at £80 per person or the Astor Grill at £65 per person. Please note that space is limited, therefore reservations in advance are required. Payment in full is required at time of booking.
For full details of all Festival catering please go to our website.
If you need help booking your tickets please email the Cliveden Literary Festival Event Office or call us on +44 (0) 20 3488 3401.
Event venue & nearby stays
Cliveden House, Cliveden Road, Taplow, United Kingdom
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