Luxurious wedding venue Cliveden set to host Cliveden Literary Festival

Luxurious wedding venue Cliveden in Berkshire is set to host the Cliveden Literary Festival on the 11th and 12th October. This year's festival features the leading writers of today across culture, politics and history.

Highlights will include Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths who will discuss their creative partnership and actor Richard E. Grant who will talk to Georgia Beaufort about the highs and lows of Hollywood. Renowned philosopher Alain de Botton will discuss his theories of love and heartbreak and Wild Swans author Jung Chang and The Silk Roads' Peter Frankopan will consider the past, present and future of China with Geordie Greig.

Panels of experts will gather to discuss 2025's most compelling issues. In the political sphere, guests will learn about intrigue inside the White House and 21st-century espionage. In the literary realm, visitors will hear about the enduring allure of Jane Austen, or the writing of crime stories both real and fictional. The most pressing questions in British politics will be cross-examined in Cliveden's very own Question Time, with Alex Burghart and Emily Maitlis.

Cliveden Literary Festival is renowned as a forum for lively discussion, thought-provoking ideas, and political debate, in the most beautiful of settings, with something for everyone. Last year, Elif Shafak described the festival as a cultural space we leave '"eeling much more nurtured, nourished and inspired" while Rachel Eliza Griffiths said "the setting of Cliveden... is a kind of mirror of the beauty that I find in books".

Now in its eighth year, the festival revives Cliveden House's rich history as a literary salon frequented by writers and thinkers from Alexander Pope to Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift and Sir Winston Churchill.

https://clivedenliteraryfestival.org