About Wimbledon Bookfest
A festival of the arts, culture and education.
Reviews
Last night saw our annual event with Brian Moore, this year joined by Rob Andrew for stimulating rugby chat!
Huge thanks to our sponsors Robert Holmes.
BBC Radio 1 Breakfast presenter Greg James, and Chris Smith join us at Wimbledon BookFest this Saturday (13th) at 11.45am. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/2yaIYY5
Find out more about their book Kid Normal here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-38y1ft34 UM
We have had an amazing first few days up on the common, make sure to join us this week and next weekend for the rest of our events.
Tickets at wimbledonbookfest.org
This Friday we are joined by The Cycling Podcast, get a taster, or catch up on the latest in the cycling world on their youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c…/UCAv6ZRQYeVO eHVcg_tfRhXA/featured
Tickets for Friday: https://bit.ly/2Qo2VRO
'What a privilege to hold the hand of a person at the frailest, most significant and most extreme moments of life. To be a nurse.' Don't miss the incredible Christie Watson at BookFest on 13th October. #wimbookfest18 https://youtu.be/tDR8akV5mD4
Alice is back with a new blog post about office life! Catch up with her here: https://www.wimbledonbookfest.org/News/Bo okFestBlog.aspx
NEW EVENT: BookFest are excited to announce that we will be joined by Theo Paphitis to discuss The Future of the High Street, he will be in conversation with James Ashton. This event is supported by Merton Council and Future Wimbledon.
Tickets here: https://bit.ly/2NBm5qj
Amazing event yesterday with Chris Riddelll and The Jigsaw Players Concert Series celebrating the 2018 Young Writers Competition.
Congratulations to all our winners, especially our overall winner Polly Cameron from Putney High School.
A huge thank you to TWM Solicitors LLP, University of Roehampton, Give A Book, New Wimbledon Theatre & First News.
Ever wondered what it is like to work in the BookFest office?
Read Alice's first blog post here: https://www.wimbledonbookfest.org/News/Bo okFestBlog.aspx
'What a privilege to hold the hand of a person at the frailest, most significant and most extreme moments of life. To be a nurse.' Don't miss the incredible Christie Watson at BookFest on 13th October.
https://youtu.be/tDR8akV5mD4
Tickets:https://www.wimbledonbookfest.org /…/CarolineEltonChristieWa…
One month to go until Wimbledon BookFest! Join us from the 5th October for 10 days of big ideas, brilliant books, marvellous music, fantastic film & cracking comedy. Tickets are selling fast so don't miss out - get the full programme & book tickets here: http://ow.ly/wix030lN59C
Less than a month to go until Wimbledon BookFest! Join us for 10 days of big ideas, brilliant books, marvellous music, fantastic film and cracking comedy. Tickets are selling fast so don't miss out - read the full programme and book your tickets here: https://www.wimbledonbookfest.org/Default .aspx
We are thrilled about this new partnership which will continue to expand our work with schools, colleges and the local community!
Thank you to our Lead Education Sponsor TWM Solicitors LLP for this window display of our beautiful Children's Event Posters! To find out more visit https://www.wimbledonbookfest.org/
Wonderful festival. Brilliantly organised in every way... that's from my point of view as one of the speakers!
I attended the Jo Malone talk and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've lived in Wimbledon nearly 20 years now but hadn't been aware of the book fest until this year. Great event
Great looking stage this year, and as always the days are energetically arranged by the team at Wimbledon BookFest who have really packed in the variety. There's something for everyone !
Excellent book festival held on Wimbledon Common. This year we saw Chris Patton and Alan Johnson who gave an excellent overview of their books, discussed past and current topics , were humerous. They answeeed questions at end. There are lots of authors both for adult and children to see from all walks of life. Most celebrity . Within the tent you can also purchase tea, coffee, alcoholic drinks and snacks. Highly recommend .
A great festival with a jam-packed quality programme of events. There really is something for everyone!
The end of the 10th Wimbledon Bookfest was another high. Paddy Ashdown is a great story teller who grips you with his grasp of history. He, Oliver James, Nick Clegg and the Comedy were high points, Jeremy Paxman was the lowest. Always well worth a visit though .
I only went to two sessions of Wimbledon Bookfest 2017, Liz Earle's 'The Good Gut Guide' on 7 October and Nicholas Crane's 'The Making of the British Landscape' on the 15th. Both sessions were expertly facilitated by Jennifer Cox and, as a Geography graduate with Coeliac disease, both were on subjects close to my heart.
The only thing which let it down was the slightly disorganised way that the book purchase and signing is organised. Liz's book was sold out by the time I got to the top of the queue after the session (I was able to download it to my Kindle later). Learning from that, I bought Nick's book BEFORE his talk but while in the queue to have it signed, I was still asked if I had paid for it.
A great festival with high quality speakers across a wide range of subjects. The event is well run and sensibly priced. Well worth a visit.
Wonderful festival. Brilliantly organised in every way... that's from my point of view as one of the speakers!
I attended the Jo Malone talk and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've lived in Wimbledon nearly 20 years now but hadn't been aware of the book fest until this year. Great event
Great looking stage this year, and as always the days are energetically arranged by the team at Wimbledon BookFest who have really packed in the variety. There's something for everyone !
Excellent book festival held on Wimbledon Common. This year we saw Chris Patton and Alan Johnson who gave an excellent overview of their books, discussed past and current topics , were humerous. They answeeed questions at end. There are lots of authors both for adult and children to see from all walks of life. Most celebrity . Within the tent you can also purchase tea, coffee, alcoholic drinks and snacks. Highly recommend .
A great festival with a jam-packed quality programme of events. There really is something for everyone!
The end of the 10th Wimbledon Bookfest was another high. Paddy Ashdown is a great story teller who grips you with his grasp of history. He, Oliver James, Nick Clegg and the Comedy were high points, Jeremy Paxman was the lowest. Always well worth a visit though .
I only went to two sessions of Wimbledon Bookfest 2017, Liz Earle's 'The Good Gut Guide' on 7 October and Nicholas Crane's 'The Making of the British Landscape' on the 15th. Both sessions were expertly facilitated by Jennifer Cox and, as a Geography graduate with Coeliac disease, both were on subjects close to my heart.
The only thing which let it down was the slightly disorganised way that the book purchase and signing is organised. Liz's book was sold out by the time I got to the top of the queue after the session (I was able to download it to my Kindle later). Learning from that, I bought Nick's book BEFORE his talk but while in the queue to have it signed, I was still asked if I had paid for it.
A great festival with high quality speakers across a wide range of subjects. The event is well run and sensibly priced. Well worth a visit.